Tuesday, May 6, 2025
⏰ Tick Tock
The deadline to verify signatures for the HB267 referendum is tomorrow. (5/7/2025)
98 days to Utah's 2025 municipal primary elections (8/12/2025)
182 days until Election Day (11/4/2025)
546 days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026)
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Utah Headlines
Utah GOP plan would boot signature-gathering candidates from party. [Utah Political Watch]
Sen. Mike Lee's proposed cuts to SNAP would shift "huge costs" to states, including Utah. [Utah News Dispatch]
Federal housing programs help Utahns avoid homelessness. Trump wants to cut them. [Tribune]
"Initiatives Initiative" group to seek help from Utah Supreme Court. [Fox 13]
Utah sued the owner of a "major source of air pollutants" for air quality violations. [Tribune]
Federal budget cuts could jeopardize local drug treatment services. [Fox 13]
Utah arts groups just saw thousands in funding pulled by the feds. Here's what was cut. [Tribune]
Will London host another Olympics after Utah's 2034 Winter Games? [Deseret News]
Nerves frayed as Utah student loans in default are once again due. [Fox 13]
National/International
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the Signal messaging app for official Pentagon business in at least a dozen separate chats. [Wall Street Journal]
- Secretary Hegseth ordered a major restructuring of military leadership, cutting the ranks of generals and admirals. [Politico]
A group of 18 states sued the Trump administration over its halting of wind-energy projects. [New York Times]
Attorneys General in 19 states and Washington, D.C. are challenging deep cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services Agency in court. [Associated Press]
The Trump administration has cut off Harvard University from receiving new research grants from the federal government. [Politico]
- The European Commission unveiled a financial package to attract and retain scientists in an attempt to leverage the Trump administration's dismantling of research programs. [STAT]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced expanded military operations in that may include seizing the entire Gaza Strip. [Reuters]
The Department of Homeland Security is offering undocumented migrants $1,000 to self deport. [Politico]
Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for nearly 90 seconds on April 28. Multiple employees were placed on trauma leave following the incident. [Bloomberg]
Briefly...
The 1979 Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz aired on a South Florida PBS station the night before President Trump announced he was reopening the prison. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago for most of the weekend. [Deadline]
A federal judge ordered North Carolina election officials to certify the victory of a Democratic justice on the state Supreme Court. [Washington Post]
