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Trump’s Pick Says
Houston Mayor Asks FEMA For $75 Million For Debris Removal
Harriet Tubman $20
Houston's mayor says the city needs more high-water ve- hicles and other equipment for first responders as search ef- forts expand amid receding floodwaters in the nation's fourth-largest city.
Mayor Sylvester Turner told "CBS This Morn- ing" for a segment broadcast Friday that the city also needs the Federal Emergency Man- agement Agency to provide more workers to complete and process applications from thousands who need aid.
He says people who suffered through Harvey's floods expect emergency management offi-
million for debris removal alone.
Turner surveyed the devastation from above with the city's police and fire chiefs on Thursday.
Mayor Turner says his city has been "punched be- fore.”
There are roughly 12,000 people in shelters, many of whom will need help long- term.
He adds that a year from now, Houston, America’s 4th largest city, will be seen as "shining star" for how a major U. S. city responds to a crip- pling natural disaster.
Bill May Be Scrapped
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Thurs- day (Aug. 31) the department may scrap plans to place famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. The decision to have Tubman on the bill was finalized under the Obama ad- ministration, yet Mnuchin told CNBC he’s not focused on the planned currency changes and would not commit on whether or not he’s proceeding with them.
“It’s not something that I’m focused on at the moment” Mnuchin said. “The issues of why we change it will be prima- rily related to what we need to do for security purposes.”
Mnuchin said the primary reason the treasury department changes the designs of bills is to cut down on counterfeiting,
Houston Mayor, Sylvester Turner
cials to work "with the greatest degree of urgency."
Turner says he's asking FEMA to provide a preliminary financial aid package of $75
which
is something the
David A. Clarke, Jr., the sometimes divisive supporter of President Trump who ap- peared to flirt with taking a senior role in the Homeland Security Department, has re- tired from his position as Mil- waukee County sheriff, the county clerk said Thursday.
“After almost 40 years serving the great people of Mil- waukee County, I have chosen to retire to pursue other oppor- tunities,” Mr. Clarke, who is leaving office with more than a year remaining in his term, said in a statement later Thurs- day. “I will have news about my next steps in the very near fu- ture.”
tional Convention. His hard- line stances on law enforce- ment and association with the N.R.A. endeared him to the right and often brought him into conflict with the Black Lives Matter movement.
He has called the Ferguson demonstrators “vultures on a roadside carcass” and once claimed that the Islamic State and Black Lives Matter ac- tivists were forming an alliance to destroy America.
In May, he thrust himself back into the spotlight, saying on a Milwaukee radio show that he would accept a senior position at the Homeland Se- curity Department.
Harriet Tubman was slated to be placed on the $20 bill by the Obama Administration. That plan will be scrapped by Trump’s person.
Obama administration speci- fied when the announcement to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill was announced last April.
Controversial Sheriff Retires
Pres. Trump Pledges
$1 Million To Harvey Relief
President Trump has pledged to donate $1 Million.
Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. retired after 40 years.
A vocal proponent of gun rights, Clarke rose to national attention last summer when he spoke at the Republican Na-
Another Hurricane Brewing -- Miami Is On Alert
President Trump has pledged to donate $1 million from his personal fortune to storm victims in Texas and Louisiana.
“He would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we’ve seen across this country do,” Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Thursday during her daily briefing at the White House.
Ms. Sanders said the president has not decided when or where he will send the donation.
While Texas is still strug- gling to recover from Harvey, more trouble was brewing Thursday out in the Atlantic — and her name is Irma.
Packing 115-mph winds and strengthening rapidly, Irma was declared a Category 3 hur- ricane just before 5 p.m. and was heading west at 12 mph and picking up speed, the Na- tional Hurricane Center re- ported. At the time, it was about 3,000 miles southeast of Miami.
"Irma is forecast to become a major hurricane by tonight and is expected to be an ex- tremely dangerous hurricane
for the next several days," the Hurricane Center warned in a bulletin.
Dennis Feltgen, a NHC spokesman and meteorologist,
told NBC News the "rapid in- tensification" of Irma's strength caught everybody's at- tention at their headquarters in Miami.
Trump To End DACA Program
President Trump, as early as Friday, is expected to announce plans to end the Obama administration pro- gram that gave a deportation reprieve to hundreds of thou- sands of young illegal immi- grants, a senior administration official said.
Trump promised to termi- nate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the presiden- tial campaign -- but since tak- ing office had left the door open to preserving parts of it.
According to the official, Trump is expected to an- nounce the program's end but
Young illegal immigrants will be deported.
will allow so-called “dreamers” currently in the program to stay in the U. S. until their work permits expire – which, for some, could be as long as two years.
The White House suggested Thursday afternoon, though,
that Trump has yet to give the final sign-off. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at the daily briefing the program is still “under review.”
The program was formed through executive order by then-President Barack Obama in 2012 and allows for certain people who came to the U. S. illegally as minors to be protected from immediate de- portation.
Recipients are able to re- quest “consideration of de- ferred action” for a period of two years which is subject to renewal.
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