Monday, May 19, 2025

⏰ Tick Tock

85 days to Utah's 2025 municipal primary elections (8/12/2025)
169 days until Election Day (11/4/2025)
533 days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026)

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Utah Headlines

A 125-vote margin: Five takeaways from Saturday's Utah GOP convention. [Utah Political Watch]

Trump's budget proposes cutting $600M from Utah's biggest water project. No one knows, or will say, what that means. [Salt Lake Tribune]

Utah Sens. Mike lee and John Curtis respond to U.S. credit rating downgrade. [Deseret News]

Utah Tech investigation ends with no "sustained findings" against former president who left phallic gift. [Salt Lake Tribune]

National/International

President Trump's "big beautiful bill" does not decrease federal spending, and would increase America's budget deficit by $3 trillion through 2034. [Wall Street Journal]

  • The House Budget committee approved the legislation on a 17-16 vote late Sunday night. [Washington Post]
  • The House Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting at 1 a.m. on Wednesday to prepare the bill for the House floor. [Punchbowl News]
  • Senate Republicans are considering breaking up the House bill into smaller pieces to push through some of President Trump's priorities before the fall. [The Hill]

Former President Joe Biden announced he has been diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer. [NBC News]

President Trump finally admits that Americans, not foreign countries, will pay for his tariffs. [Axios]

President Trump has ordered federal agencies to simply stop enforcing rules he doesn't like. [Washington Post]

The United States will begin discussions about reducing the number of U.S. troops in Europe later this year. [Reuters]

Federal prosecutors may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from Justice Department officials under a new proposed policy. [Washington Post]

Briefly...

The suspect in a bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, is a 25-year-old with "nihilistic ideations." He was killed in the blast while attempting to live-stream it. [Washington Post]

Tornadoes and severe storms killed 28 people in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia over the weekend. [Associated Press]

Cuts to U.S. aid has left food that could feed 3.5 million people rotting in warehouses around the world. [Reuters]