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The Daily 202: Trump reassures anxious hawks that he’s willing to walk away from North Korea talks
-- Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released thousands of divisive ads created by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency in an effort to sow discord ahead of the 2016 election. NBC News’s Brandy Zadrozny, Ben Popken, Ben Collins and Andrew W. Lehren report: “ … Facebook, which also owns Instagram, received nearly $100,000 from the Russia-funded troll farm to run the 3,000 ads from 2015 to 2017, according to an NBC News analysis[.] The ads provide a deeper understanding of Russia’s use of social media to spread propaganda on divisive topics, which included pushing anti-immigrant messages to fans of specific Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, and buying batches of ads immediately after a mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Some of the most divisive ads capitalized on the political movement Black Lives Matter and hot-button political issues including immigration, gun control, the religion of Islam and LGBT-centric topics. Some 3.7 million users clicked on the IRA ads … [and] the ads released Thursday were seen over 33 million times, according to the metadata provided by Facebook.”
-- “The House Armed Services Committee has moved to nullify a 30-year-old nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, endorsing a measure that would entrust [Trump] to decide whether the United States should scrap the deal,” Karoun Demirjian reports: “The Republican-led measure, which was added around midnight Thursday to a draft of next year’s defense spending bill, states that the United States will no longer consider the treaty binding without White House verification of Russia’s full compliance. Though it is largely symbolic … it marks Washington’s latest attempt, as sponsor Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) put it, to ‘nudge Russia into compliance’ with a Cold War-era agreement that Moscow is believed to have violated for years.”
-- Paul Ryan is seeking to quash a brewing rebellion among GOP lawmakers attempting to force a vote on a package of immigration bills. Mike DeBonis reports: “Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters he would ‘like to’ take up an immigration bill, one day after 17 Republicans signed a petition that would force votes on a number of immigration bills. A discharge petition is a rarely successful legislative maneuver that overrides the speaker’s power to determine what legislation comes to the House floor. ‘Going down a path and having some kind of a spectacle on the floor that just results in a veto doesn’t solve the problem,’ Ryan said, suggesting that [Trump] would reject the bills that the petition would discharge ... Republican leaders have cajoled rank-and-file lawmakers not to sign on to the petition, privately arguing that the issue of immigration could create an unpredictable and politically treacherous free-for-all in the middle of an election year.”
-- The FCC announced net neutrality rules would be officially repealed next month. From CNN’s Seth Fiegerman: “‘Now, on June 11, these unnecessary and harmful internet regulations will be repealed and the bipartisan, light-touch approach that served the online world well for nearly 20 years will be restored,’ Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, said in a statement Thursday. … The new timeline comes as net neutrality advocates make a last ditch effort to undo the repeal. Senate Democrats are currently pushing for a vote on a bill to overturn the decision as soon as next week. Even if the resolution passes the Senate, it still faces an uphill battle in the House.”
-- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau downplayed plans to consolidate its student arm with another office. An agency spokesperson said, “There is a very modest organizational chart change to keep the Bureau in line with the statute but the office is still operating within the same division.” Danielle Douglas-Gabriel reports: “Dozens of Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and [Dick Durbin (Ill.)], denounced the consolidation as a thinly veiled attempt by the Trump administration to curry favor with the student loan industry at the expense of consumers. On Thursday, protesters gathered in front of CFPB headquarters to oppose the reorganization and urge the agency to continue to fight for student loan borrowers.”
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