[News] 'Start Here': Trump takes aim at Puert

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It's Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Let's start here. 1. FEMA funds Asuerto Ricoraced forurricane Doriann Wednesday, Presidentonald Trumpook aim at the U.S. territory, calling it "one of the most corrupt places on earth," while adding, "I'm the best thing that's ever happened to Puerto Rico." Trumpaidhe Federal Emergency Management Agency "will do a great job" handling any potential damage from Dorian, now swirling toward the U.S. mainland, amid scrutiny over his administration's decision toivert millionsin FEMA disaster funds to address the border crisis. Some of the money would cover the cost of detaining and transporting undocumented migrants, as well as temporary hearing sites at the border, according to ABC News' Kyra Phillips, who tells "Start Here" that critics are questioning why funds are being transferred from FEMA at the height ofurricaneeason. FEMA said in a statement that even with the proposed transfer the money left behind in its accounts "will be sufficient to support operational needs and will not impact ongoing long-term recovery efforts across the country." 2. State of the Senate Ten Democratic presidential candidates appear to have met the Democratic Party's rules to qualify for theext debate, according to an ABC News analysis. Twenty contenders still remain in the race after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.,roppeder 2020 bid on Wednesday, but there was also a shake-up in the fight for the Senate with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., announcing hisetirement, highlighting the Senate math needed for each party to pass their legislative wishlists if they win the White House. "Anything all these Democrats talk about wanting to do that couldn't just be done through executive action ... will probably need 50 votes for everything ranging from health care to potentially confirming Supreme Court justices," FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver says. 3. Sub missile test? Newatellite imagesf a North Korean shipyard reveal a potential new threat -- a submarine capable of launching nuclear missiles. Analysts with the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Beyond Parallel say a new ballistic missile submarine is being constructed, and a crane and support vessels suggest preparations for a missile test. The possible test could complicate stalleduclear talksetween the U.S. and North Korea as the president has continued to downplay Pyongyang's recent short-range ballistic missile launches, according to ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz. "It would significantly increase the threat from North Korea," she says, adding, "In this atmosphere where they're supposed to be scaling back, if they continue on this track it's just one more bad sign." 4. 'Religious freedom' case The Trump administration isacking Vermont nurse who says she was forced to assist with an abortion, despite objecting to the procedure because of her religious beliefs. The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to remove federal funding from the University of Vermont Medical Center and accused the hospital of violating the law "by forcing a nurse to assist in an elective abortion procedure over the nurse’s conscience-based objections." But the University of Vermont Medical Center said in a statement that the allegations were "promptly and thoroughly investigated" and "determined that they were not supported by the facts," noting that the hospital "has robust, formal protections that safeguard both our employees’ religious, ethical and cultural beliefs, and our patients’ rights to access safe and legal abortion." HHS said its Office for Civil Rights is used to receiving one religious discrimination complaint a year, but is now reviewing "hundreds." ABC News' Anne Flaherty tells the podcast she spoke to an HHS official who believes it's because of Trump's election and his outspokenness on "religious freedom and people knowing that they have this right under the law to claim a religious objection." ----- Sent from JPTT on my Htc HTC Desire 12+. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 101.11.34.23 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/EngTalk/M.1567087952.A.164.html