Wednesday, April 2, 2025
⏰ Tick Tock
132 days to Utah's 2025 municipal primary elections (8/12/2025)
216 days until Election Day (11/4/2025)
580 days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026)
👀 Here's what you need to know for
Wednesday morning:
Utah Headlines
Utah State Board of Education to consider resolution tying DEI programs to communist goals. [Utah News Dispatch]
"The timeline is frantic": Utah university presidents only have 2 months to make major budget cuts. [Tribune]
Salt Lake City nears "financing mechanism" for massive Delta Center district plans. [KSL]
Signature gathering effort against HB267 is in full swing across the state. [Deseret News]
ICE is more frequently detaining Utahns who meet with state probation agents, immigration attorneys warn. [Tribune]
Your ride in an ambulance might have just gotten cheaper under this new law. [Fox 13]
Utah billionaire, Trump donor gets pardoned after conviction for bilking investors. [KUTV]
Dental services now available to adult Utahns enrolled in Medicaid. [Utah News Dispatch]
National/International
Republicans won a pair of special congressional elections on Tuesday night, but severely underperformed at the polls. [Politico]
Susan Crawford, the Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court, cruised to victory on Tuesday night. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk threw significant support behind her Republican opponent. [Associated Press]
The White House is studying how much it would cost for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, which would require an illegal invasion of the country. [Washington Post]
The U.S. has moved 30% of the Air Force's B-2 bomber fleet to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. [CNN]
National security adviser Tim Waltz and other members of the National Security Council have conducted business over personal Gmail accounts. [Washington Post]
The Trump administration is in talks with several more countries to take in migrants deported from the U.S. [Wall Street Journal]
A DOGE staffer who resigned over racist social media posts was reinstated last month according to court filings. [The Hill]
Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn studied options for Donald Trump to serve a third term as President as early as 2023. [Wall Street Journal]
Briefly...
The Trump administration eliminated the entire staff of a federal program that helps low-income households pay utility bills. [NBC News]
Leaders at the National Endowment for the Humanities warned employees that deep cuts are coming to the agency. [New York Times]
The measles outbreak in Texas has spread hundreds of miles from its epicenter. [Texas Tribune]
