Wednesday, June 4, 2025
⏰ Tick Tock
Days to Utah's 2025 municipal primary elections (8/12/2025) - 69
Days until Election Day (11/4/2025) - 153
Days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026) - 517
Days until the 2028 presidential election (11/7/2028) - 1,252
👀 Here's what you need to know for Wednesday morning:
UTAH AND THE WEST
Utah Rep. Blake Moore backs away from Elon Musk's DOGE flop. [Utah Political Watch]
Public lands sale may return to "big, beautiful" bill with Mike Lee amendment. [Utah News Dispatch]
Utah has brush with measles before Memorial Day weekend. [Park Record]
Utah wants more career-focused education. This Davis County school is the blueprint. [KUER]
Utah Supreme Court justice to step down from the bench. [Utah News Dispatch]
Republicans in the Utah House elected new leaders. Here's who will lead in the Legislature. [Salt Lake Tribune]
"Everyone's just scared": Clearfield Job Corps students brace for facility's closure. [KSL]
The BYU grad at the heart of Trump's trade war. [Deseret News]
S.L. County shifting land to South Salt Lake for a new police station – right next to a homeless shelter. [Salt Lake Tribune]
Layton leaders OK development plan around FrontRunner station, hope for "vibrant area." [KSL]
Off-road vehicle access restored in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. [Deseret News]
NATIONAL
Elon Musk is attacking President Donald Trump's spending bill on social media because it does not cut spending and increases the national debt. [Daily Beast]
- Four reasons Musk attacked Trump's "big beautiful bill." [Axios]
Some Republicans in Congress are having regrets about provisions tucked into the "big, beautiful bill," saying they were unaware of those additions when they voted for it. [New York Times]
Some of the biggest donors to President Donald Trump's inauguration benefitted from early actions taken by his administration. [Wall Street Journal]
The Justice Department accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen into the United States for research. The fungus could potentially be used as a biological weapon against crops. [Reuters]
President Trump is reportedly frustrated that some of his Supreme Court picks are not doing enough to support his agenda. He is particularly frustrated with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. [ABC News]
New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka is suing Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey and other Trump administration officials after he was arrested by immigration agents at a detention center last month. The suit claims the arrest was politically motivated. [Reuters]
The Trump administration is backing off a demand that states turn over personal information on food stamp recipients. [New York Times]
ECONOMY
President Trump attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on social media, angrily urging him to lower interest rates. [CNBC]
President Trump signed an order doubling tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum. [Axios]
INTERNATIONAL
A new study says nearly one million Russian troops have been killed or wounded in the war against Ukraine. Almost 400,000 Ukrainian troops have died or been injured in the conflict. [New York Times]
ENVIRONMENT
A television meteorologist in Florida warned viewers because of federal budget cuts at the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he would no longer be able to accurately predict hurricanes. [Mediaite]
