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]]>A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team searches a suspected smuggling vessel interdicted in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, May 31, 2020.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will meet Friday with leaders of the U.S. military’s Southern Command, the combatant command on the front lines of America’s effort to curb drug trafficking, the White House confirmed Tuesday.
In April, the Trump administration announced expanded counternarcotics operations near Central America in order to disrupt the flow of drugs into the United States. The anti-drug operations, a Trump campaign promise, have also led to efforts to outfit the U.S.-Mexico border with a wall.
“In cooperation with the 22 partner nations, U.S. Southern Command will increase surveillance, disruption and seizures of drug shipments and provide additional support for eradication efforts which are going on right now at a record pace,” Trump said during an April 1 White House briefing.
“We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircraft, and helicopters; Coast Guard cutters and Air Force surveillance aircraft, doubling our capabilities in the region,” he added, flanked by national security officials.
U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions after announcing U.S. naval moves against Venezuela and narcotic traficking as National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper listen during the daily coronavirus response briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 1, 2020.
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During June alone, U.S. Southern Command reported the interception of more than 35,014 pounds of suspected cocaine with an estimated value of $546 million.
The trip to Doral, Florida, comes as the Sunshine State reports a steady surge of coronavirus cases, a trend that challenges the Trump administration’s push to reopen the U.S. economy.
On Saturday, Florida reported 11,445 coronavirus cases, the highest single-day total since the pandemic began in December, according to the state health department. And while the state is dealing with an uptick in cases, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously said he will not close businesses again or issue a statewide mask mandate to slow the spread of the deadly virus.
The president’s trip comes a week after Vice President Mike Pence met with and praised DeSantis for reopening the state and for implementing an “innovative” response to the unprecedented health pandemic.
“I want to thank you for your efforts to open up Florida again … Florida being an economic engine for the United States, played a key role,” Pence said during an event at the University of South Florida Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in Tampa, Florida.
“I also want to say, Governor, that we fully support your prudent steps in working to slow the spread and the rise in cases that are impacting Florida today,” Pence added.
The White House has repeatedly said that both Trump and Pence are tested on a daily basis for the coronavirus and have only produced negative results.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is pictured on May 6. His panel has voted to form a commission on removing Confederate names from Army installations.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is pictured on May 6. His panel has voted to form a commission on removing Confederate names from Army installations.
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Members of Congress put themselves onto a collision course with the White House on Thursday over the politics of America’s Confederate legacy.
The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment that would create a commission charged with renaming Army installations that bear Confederate names and removing their Confederate symbols.
A bipartisan team of House members, both veterans, proposed something similar.
And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reiterated her call for members of Congress to enact legislation that would purge the Capitol of Confederate statues. The speaker told reporters she didn’t believe she has the power to do so herself — effectively daring the Republicans who control the Senate to go along.
“Believe me, if I had more authority we’d have fewer of those statues around,” Pelosi told reporters on Thursday.
The speaker can move statues around within the Capitol but not take them out of it, she said.
Democrats — led by Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., — have legislation to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol. Pelosi said Democrats want to remove 11 statues but specifically referred to those of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens at a press conference.
“Treason,” Pelosi said. “They committed treason against the United States and their statues are still here because their states put them here.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Thursday he isn’t opposed to renaming military installations.
Even though some Republicans are joining with Democrats to excise the old Confederate symbols and names, their proposals, if enacted by both chambers, would require the signature of President Trump — which may not be forthcoming.
The White House dug in this week on standing by the current names of a number of Army bases named for Confederate commanders, including Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Confederate army, Braxton Bragg and others.
Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday that he considered the door closed to renaming military installations — after Defense Secretary Mark Esper had appeared to open it — and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany reiterated on Wednesday that the administration believes the names should stay.
America’s great military bases are known for the heroes within them, and any effort to change the names of these great forts is opposed by President @realDonaldTrump.
President Trump will ALWAYS stand with our heroic military men and women! pic.twitter.com/BzCRVvtazq
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) June 11, 2020
The amendment about the Confederate base names adopted by the Senate committee on Thursday is within an annual bill that sets policy for the military — one that, because of its size and importance, passes nearly every year.
Supporters are betting the importance of the overall bill means that when it reaches Trump, he’ll overlook his objections and sign it into law.
Implementing excisions
The Senate bill would start a three-year clock during which the Defense Department would be required to remove Confederate names and symbols from bases, ships, aircraft, streets and other property.
There are 10 Army bases named for Confederate commanders. Many of them received their names around World War I, following a War Department decision that Northern installations could be named for Union leaders and that ones sited in the South could be named for Confederates.
At least one Navy warship, the cruiser USS Chancellorsville, is named for a Confederate victory.
The Defense Department has resisted calls for renaming in the past but the comments by Esper and members of Congress in both parties this week suggested that an earlier consensus might be shifting.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., — multi-decade veterans of the Air Force and Army, respectively — said their proposal to rename installations on Thursday would do so quicker than the Senate amendment: within one year.
Brown and Bacon said they thought it was past time for the military to clear away Confederate trappings.
“The symbols and individuals that our military honors matter. It matters to the black soldier serving at an installation honoring the name of a leader who fought to preserve slavery and oppression. It matters to the culture of inclusivity and unity needed for our military to get the job done,” Brown said.
Said Bacon: “Now is the time to embrace our values ‘that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.'”
Shifting climate
Political figures in Washington are scrambling to strike the right note in responding to the national movement that has followed the death of a Minneapolis man, George Floyd, at the hands of police.
The wave of demonstrations that followed the killing of Floyd not only reignited long-simmering anger about law enforcement and race, but other lingering questions about the status of names, statues and symbols of the old Confederacy.
Trump and Republicans have said they want to go along with prospective legislation that could reform police practices around the United States, and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is working on a bill now.
The president has drawn the line on the Confederate names, however. And at least one senator — Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., whose panel adopted the amendment calling for a renaming commission — said he thought individual states should be involved.
This is just a first step in the process, he said, and “we have a long ways to go.”
“I think that we should have state input in this thing … and I think it will be … by the time we get to conference and everything else,” Inhofe told reporters. “Let states determine if they want to rename things in their state.”
The Army bases are federal installations run by the Defense Department. Ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said on Thursday that the renaming commission would consult with locals in assessing how to rename the bases.
“There was some dissenting votes, but it was largely a bipartisan effort, and frankly I think it will put us in the position of carefully and thoughtfully looking at this issue,” Reed told reporters on a conference call Thursday.
NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.
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]]>The Philadelphia Eagles raised eyebrows Friday night when they selected quarterback Jalen Hurts in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Hurts is presumably set to be the backup for quarterback Carson Wentz. However, Wentz is coming off a season where he played 16 games but got hurt in the playoffs and was forced to leave the game in the wildcard round against the Seattle Seahawks.
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Wentz’s injuries have defined his short career so far and it makes you wonder if the Eagles are planning to have a solid quarterback waiting in case Wentz gets hurt again.
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman made clear that Wentz is still the starting quarterback when talking about the Hurts pick.
“When coach [Doug] Pederson came in and we sat down in 2016, we said we were always going to be about the quarterback position,” Roseman said, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “It’s the most important position in sports, and we were very fortunate to get a young Pro Bowl quarterback in Carson Wentz. Our goal is to surround him with as many good people as we possibly can, as many good players as we possibly can.
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“… We looked at where we were on the board, what was the thing that we believed in the most, and more than that, the people that we believed in the most. Jalen stood out in all of those regards.”
Wentz also welcomed Hurts in a tweet.
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Hurts totaled 3,851 yards and 32 touchdowns in his lone season at Oklahoma. He led the Sooners to Big 12 title and a College Football Playoff appearance. He was also named runner-up for the Heisman Trophy.
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