Thursday, August 6: Crowley’s closing argument, governors defend states’ powers, clean energy rollbacks blocked, Trump-affiliated firm gets contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I had to make a decision, and that was hard, but I felt that with Evers’ backing and other factors that this would be a better way for us to move forward.”
– Peggy Hedberg, a Madison voter who attended a campaign event Wednesday, on making up her mind to support Crowley
David Crowley meets voters in downtown Madison Wednesday (Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner)
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is criss-crossing the state in the final week before Election Day, trying to persuade undecided voters to choose him in the Democratic primary for governor. Baylor Spears catches up with the candidate and listens to him make his case.
Bipartisan groups of governors and state lawmakers held major gatherings in recent days where issues of state authority became a focus. They agreed the federal government had grown too powerful and pushed for states to maintain control over elections, energy, education and other issues. Kevin Hardy has the story.
Two courts this week dealt blows to the Trump administration’s attempts to withdraw clean energy and climate grants. A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the EPA could not terminate $20 billion in clean energy grants awarded to nonprofit groups, Nada Hassanein reports. And a federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s attempt to halt a court order to restore $1.6 billion in climate justice grants.
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to award a $150 million contract to a small Texas firm — with no specialty in immigration law and run by a former Trump official — to provide legal services to tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, according to a Wednesday pre-published notice in the Federal Register, Ariana Figueroa reports.
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Kristen Welker, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, interviews Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox during the summer meeting of the National Governors Association in Oklahoma City. Governors called for a rebalancing of state and federal power sharing. (Photo by Kevin Hardy/Stateline)
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