Trump and Putin arrive in Alaska.
PBS: slashing its budget in response to Trump's attack on public media. Link here.
Now that Congress has passed a bill that will defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS is taking drastic measures to stay alive.
In an email sent out to PBS station managers on Wednesday, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger announced that the organization plans to cut its budget by 21 percent in order to offset some of the financial damage being caused by the Trump administration’s campaign to stop public media from receiving federal funding that was originally distributed by the CPB.
Because of the recently passed bill, PBS, NPR, and all of both organizations’ affiliates will no longer receive the $1.1 billion that was previously set aside for them to use over the next two years.
Speaking of staying alive, link here.
CFPB: not staying alive? Link here. Court clears Trump to restart CFPB mass firings. The CFPB was an agency conceived by Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts.
However, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said on Friday that its decision would not take immediate effect, allowing lawyers representing CFPB workers and pro-consumer organizations to seek reconsideration by the full court of appeals, meaning dismissal notices were likely to have to wait for now.
The decision nevertheless imperiled the employment of perhaps 1,500 workers at the CFPB whose mass dismissals were blocked in April by a trial court, which found the attempted purge violated a March injunction temporarily halting the administration’s efforts to shut the CFPB down.
EVs: dead. "Fake" EVs are doing very, very well, but BEVs (pure EVs)? No one wants them. Not even Canadians. Link here.
