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VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 58,001 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 U(D54G1D)y+$!,!\!#!{ David Brooks PAGE A25 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25 Late Edition Koko, who had a sign-language vocabu- lary of more than 2,000 words, charmed entertainers, like Fred Rogers, and their audiences. PAGE A11 NATIONAL A11-17 Koko the Gorilla Dies at 46 The latest installment of the “Jurassic World" franchise doesn’t always make a lot of sense, A.O. Scott writes. PAGE C1 WEEKEND ARTS C1-20 Maybe One Bite Too Many? WASHINGTON — Americans have done more and more of their shopping online in recent years, drawn by the promise of low prices, wide selection and buy- from-home convenience. But e- commerce has also had another edge: Many of those sales were, in effect, tax-free. The Supreme Court on Thurs- day moved to close that loophole, ruling that internet retailers can be required to collect sales taxes even in states where they have no physical presence. The decision, in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., was a victory for brick-and-mortar businesses that have long complained they are put at a disadvantage by having to charge sales taxes while many on- line competitors do not. And it was also a victory for states that have said that they are missing out on tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. “State and local governments have really been dealing with a nightmare scenario for several years now,” said Carl Davis, re- search director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington think tank. “This is going to allow state and local gov- ernments to improve their tax en- forcement and to put local busi- ness on a more level playing field.” In Thursday’s ruling, the court effectively overturned a system Supreme Court Clears Way to Collect Sales Tax From Web Retailers This article is by Adam Liptak, Ben Casselman and Julie Creswell. Continued on Page A17 SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking re-election on Sunday, is fond of huge building projects, like this bridge over the Bosporus. Page A8. Turkish President Wants a Canal. Do Voters? EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Argentina finds itself on the brink of World Cup elimination after losing, 3-0, to Croatia. Page B8. Bad Turns to Worse WASHINGTON — President Trump, spurred on by conserva- tives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thurs- day a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a pro- found effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans. Produced over the last year by Mr. Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, it would reshuffle so- cial welfare programs in a way that would make them easier to cut, scale back or restructure, ac- cording to several administration officials involved in the planning. Among the most consequential ideas is a proposal to shift the Sup- plemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a subsistence benefit that provides aid to 42 million poor and working Americans, from the Agriculture Department to a new mega-agency that would have “welfare” in its title — a term Mr. Trump uses as a pejorative catchall for most government benefit programs. That proposal, which includes an equally ambitious plan to merge the Education and Labor Departments to consolidate work force programs, is not likely to gain the congressional approval needed to make the changes, Mr. Shaking Up Cabinet to Shrink the Government By GLENN THRUSH and ERICA L. GREEN A Conservative Drive to Slash the Safety Net Continued on Page A16 GOTEBORG, Sweden — The European Union fought back on Friday against the Trump admin- istration’s tariffs, slapping penal- ties on an array of American prod- ucts that target the president’s po- litical base, like bourbon, motor- cycles and orange juice. The European counterattack on $3.2 billion of goods, a response to the administration’s measures on steel and aluminum imports, adds another front to a trade war that has engulfed allies and adversar- ies around the world. China and Mexico have already retaliated with their own tariffs, and Canada, Japan and Turkey are readying similar offensives. The risk of escalation is high since President Trump has promised even more tariffs. Ta- king aim at German car manufac- turers, the president has started an investigation into automobile imports to determine whether they pose a national security con- cern, the same justification used for his metal tariffs. “You look at the European Un- ion,” he told a crowd in Duluth, Minn., on Thursday. “They put up barriers so that we can’t sell our farm products in. And yet they sell Mercedes and BMW, and the cars come in by the millions. And we hardly tax them at all.” Europe Wages Counterattack In Trade War By JACK EWING Continued on Page A6 AURORA, Colo. — Micaela Samol Gonzalez, dressed in blue detention scrubs, made her way to the front of a windowless court- room in Colorado on Thursday and faced the judge. After she gave her name and arranged a fu- ture court date for her immigra- tion case, the judge asked whether she had any questions. She had just one. “My question is regarding my son,” Ms. Gonzalez, whose boy was taken away by immigration authorities shortly after she was accused of crossing the border il- legally on a journey from Guatemala, said in Spanish. “I’ve been given a number to contact him but nobody’s replying to me, and I’m wondering if he’s doing well.” A day after President Trump signed an executive order scrap- ping his administration’s practice of separating immigrant parents and children at the border, there was no relief for Ms. Gonzalez and hundreds of other parents who were little closer to reuniting with the more than 2,300 children who have been taken from them under the administration’s “zero toler- ance” border enforcement policy. Parents said they still did not know how to track down their chil- dren, and struggled to find out any information through a 1-800 hot- line set up by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. Others who had located their children said they were still separated by thousands of miles and a bureau- cratic maze they did not know how to navigate. The one thing they wanted was their children. But parents and lawyers said those reunions still seemed achingly distant and un- certain. Administration officials have said children were taken only from parents who had violated the Rules Shifted, But Reunions Are Uncertain Lawyers Comb System for Migrant Children By JACK HEALY Continued on Page A14 WASHINGTON — The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border. The 20,000 beds at bases in Texas and Arkansas would house “unaccompanied alien children,” said a Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, although other federal agencies provided conflicting explanations about how the shelters would be used and who would be housed there. There were reports of widespread confusion on the border. It was unclear whether the mili- tary housing would also house the parents of children in migrant families that have been detained, and officials at the White House, the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday that they could not provide details. The Pentagon announcement followed Mr. Trump’s executive order on Wednesday to keep fam- ilies together after they illegally cross the Mexican border into the United States. The order called for detaining families at the same lo- cation. Democrats questioned the 20,000-bed plan. “Is it even feasi- ble?” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York asked from the Senate floor. Advocates for the migrants ex- 4 MILITARY BASES PREPARE TO HOLD 20,000 CHILDREN ‘CHAOS ON THE GROUND’ A Day of Confusion After a Presidential Order on Immigration This article is by Michael D. Shear, Helene Cooper and Katie Benner. Continued on Page A13 The natural gas industry is leaking far more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, than government estimates, a study says. And that’s bad news for the climate. PAGE B4 Sky-High Methane Emissions The country’s biggest banks are strong enough to keep lending even if the economy plunges into a severe down- turn, the Fed’s annual stress tests found. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Not Too Stressed “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” When the first lady, Melania Trump, on a surprise humanitar- ian visit to a children’s shelter in Texas, strode onto her airplane in an olive green Zara army jacket with those words scrawled in faux white graffiti on the back, it sent the watching world into what might be called, with some understatement, a meltdown. “Insensitive,” “heartless” and “unthinking” were some of the words hurled through the digi- sphere about the choice. “It’s a jacket,” her communica- tions director, Stephanie Gr- isham, said in a statement to reporters. “There was no hidden message.” She’s right, of course. It wasn’t hidden. It was literally written on the first lady’s back. The ques- tion is: Who was the intended audience? The assumption implicit in the outrage is that the message was meant for those Mrs. Trump was meeting. But here’s the thing: The first lady has had some experience with the attention paid when she boards planes. First Lady’s $39 Jacket Makes A Statement, but What Kind? Continued on Page A14 ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS VANESSA FRIEDMAN CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK Melania Trump at Joint Base Andrews after her trip. Charles Krauthammer, 68, abandoned psychiatry to become a Pulitzer-win- ning columnist and TV commentator with an independent streak. OBITUARIES B16 A Polished Conservative Voice To discuss making it happen, John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, is going to Russia next week. PAGE A9 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 Trump Seeks Putin Meeting ABC, which canceled the popular sit- com “Roseanne” last month after its star, Roseanne Barr, made a racist tweet, will reunite the cast, minus Ms. Barr, in “The Conners.” PAGE B1 ‘Roseanne’ Without Roseanne DeAndre Ayton, a 7-foot-1 center, was selected first by Phoenix in an N.B.A. draft that focused on big men. PAGE B13 SPORTSFRIDAY B8-15 The N.B.A. Lives Large Today, some sunshine, then clouds, not as warm, high 75. Tonight, cloudy, periodic rain and drizzle late, low 63. Tomorrow, thunderstorms, high 73. Weather map, Page A22. $3.00
Transcript of 20,000 CHILDREN PREPARE TO HOLD 4 MILITARY BASESJun 22, 2018 · tweet, will reunite the cast,...
VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 58,001 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018
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David Brooks PAGE A25
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25
Late Edition
Koko, who had a sign-language vocabu-lary of more than 2,000 words, charmedentertainers, like Fred Rogers, and theiraudiences. PAGE A11
NATIONAL A11-17
Koko the Gorilla Dies at 46The latest installment of the “JurassicWorld" franchise doesn’t always make alot of sense, A.O. Scott writes. PAGE C1
WEEKEND ARTS C1-20
Maybe One Bite Too Many?
WASHINGTON — Americanshave done more and more of theirshopping online in recent years,drawn by the promise of lowprices, wide selection and buy-from-home convenience. But e-commerce has also had another
edge: Many of those sales were, ineffect, tax-free.
The Supreme Court on Thurs-day moved to close that loophole,ruling that internet retailers canbe required to collect sales taxeseven in states where they have nophysical presence.
The decision, in South Dakota v.Wayfair Inc., was a victory forbrick-and-mortar businesses that
have long complained they are putat a disadvantage by having tocharge sales taxes while many on-line competitors do not. And it wasalso a victory for states that havesaid that they are missing out ontens of billions of dollars in annualrevenue.
“State and local governmentshave really been dealing with anightmare scenario for several
years now,” said Carl Davis, re-search director at the Institute onTaxation and Economic Policy, aWashington think tank. “This isgoing to allow state and local gov-ernments to improve their tax en-forcement and to put local busi-ness on a more level playing field.”
In Thursday’s ruling, the courteffectively overturned a system
Supreme Court Clears Way to Collect Sales Tax From Web RetailersThis article is by Adam Liptak,
Ben Casselman and Julie Creswell.
Continued on Page A17
SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking re-election on Sunday, is fond of huge building projects, like this bridge over the Bosporus. Page A8.Turkish President Wants a Canal. Do Voters?
EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Argentina finds itself on the brink of World Cup elimination after losing, 3-0, to Croatia. Page B8.Bad Turns to Worse
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump, spurred on by conserva-tives who want him to slash safetynet programs, unveiled on Thurs-day a plan to overhaul the federalgovernment that could have a pro-found effect on millions of poorand working-class Americans.
Produced over the last year byMr. Trump’s budget director, MickMulvaney, it would reshuffle so-cial welfare programs in a way
that would make them easier tocut, scale back or restructure, ac-cording to several administrationofficials involved in the planning.
Among the most consequentialideas is a proposal to shift the Sup-plemental Nutrition AssistanceProgram, a subsistence benefitthat provides aid to 42 million
poor and working Americans,from the Agriculture Departmentto a new mega-agency that wouldhave “welfare” in its title — a termMr. Trump uses as a pejorativecatchall for most governmentbenefit programs.
That proposal, which includesan equally ambitious plan tomerge the Education and LaborDepartments to consolidate workforce programs, is not likely togain the congressional approvalneeded to make the changes, Mr.
Shaking Up Cabinet to Shrink the GovernmentBy GLENN THRUSHand ERICA L. GREEN
A Conservative Drive toSlash the Safety Net
Continued on Page A16
GOTEBORG, Sweden — TheEuropean Union fought back onFriday against the Trump admin-istration’s tariffs, slapping penal-ties on an array of American prod-ucts that target the president’s po-litical base, like bourbon, motor-cycles and orange juice.
The European counterattack on$3.2 billion of goods, a response tothe administration’s measures onsteel and aluminum imports, addsanother front to a trade war thathas engulfed allies and adversar-ies around the world. China andMexico have already retaliatedwith their own tariffs, and Canada,Japan and Turkey are readyingsimilar offensives.
The risk of escalation is highsince President Trump haspromised even more tariffs. Ta-king aim at German car manufac-turers, the president has startedan investigation into automobileimports to determine whetherthey pose a national security con-cern, the same justification usedfor his metal tariffs.
“You look at the European Un-ion,” he told a crowd in Duluth,Minn., on Thursday. “They put upbarriers so that we can’t sell ourfarm products in. And yet they sellMercedes and BMW, and the carscome in by the millions. And wehardly tax them at all.”
Europe WagesCounterattack
In Trade War
By JACK EWING
Continued on Page A6
AURORA, Colo. — MicaelaSamol Gonzalez, dressed in bluedetention scrubs, made her way tothe front of a windowless court-room in Colorado on Thursdayand faced the judge. After shegave her name and arranged a fu-ture court date for her immigra-tion case, the judge asked whethershe had any questions.
She had just one.“My question is regarding my
son,” Ms. Gonzalez, whose boywas taken away by immigrationauthorities shortly after she wasaccused of crossing the border il-legally on a journey fromGuatemala, said in Spanish. “I’vebeen given a number to contacthim but nobody’s replying to me,and I’m wondering if he’s doingwell.”
A day after President Trumpsigned an executive order scrap-ping his administration’s practiceof separating immigrant parentsand children at the border, therewas no relief for Ms. Gonzalez andhundreds of other parents whowere little closer to reuniting withthe more than 2,300 children whohave been taken from them underthe administration’s “zero toler-ance” border enforcement policy.
Parents said they still did notknow how to track down their chil-dren, and struggled to find out anyinformation through a 1-800 hot-line set up by the federal Office ofRefugee Resettlement. Otherswho had located their childrensaid they were still separated bythousands of miles and a bureau-cratic maze they did not know howto navigate.
The one thing they wanted wastheir children. But parents andlawyers said those reunions stillseemed achingly distant and un-certain.
Administration officials havesaid children were taken onlyfrom parents who had violated the
Rules Shifted,But ReunionsAre Uncertain
Lawyers Comb Systemfor Migrant Children
By JACK HEALY
Continued on Page A14
WASHINGTON — The UnitedStates is preparing to shelter asmany as 20,000 migrant childrenon four American military bases, aPentagon spokesman said onThursday, as federal officialsstruggled to carry out PresidentTrump’s order to keep immigrantfamilies together after they areapprehended at the border.
The 20,000 beds at bases inTexas and Arkansas would house“unaccompanied alien children,”said a Pentagon spokesman, Lt.Col. Michael Andrews, althoughother federal agencies providedconflicting explanations abouthow the shelters would be usedand who would be housed there.There were reports of widespreadconfusion on the border.
It was unclear whether the mili-tary housing would also house theparents of children in migrantfamilies that have been detained,and officials at the White House,the Defense Department and theDepartment of Health and HumanServices said on Thursday thatthey could not provide details.
The Pentagon announcementfollowed Mr. Trump’s executiveorder on Wednesday to keep fam-ilies together after they illegallycross the Mexican border into theUnited States. The order called fordetaining families at the same lo-cation.
Democrats questioned the20,000-bed plan. “Is it even feasi-ble?” Senator Chuck Schumer ofNew York asked from the Senatefloor.
Advocates for the migrants ex-
4 MILITARY BASESPREPARE TO HOLD
20,000 CHILDREN
‘CHAOS ON THE GROUND’
A Day of Confusion Aftera Presidential Order
on Immigration
This article is by Michael D.Shear, Helene Cooper and KatieBenner.
Continued on Page A13
The natural gas industry is leaking farmore methane, a powerful greenhousegas, than government estimates, astudy says. And that’s bad news for theclimate. PAGE B4
Sky-High Methane Emissions
The country’s biggest banks are strongenough to keep lending even if theeconomy plunges into a severe down-turn, the Fed’s annual stress testsfound. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
Not Too Stressed
“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DOU?”
When the first lady, MelaniaTrump, on a surprise humanitar-ian visit to a children’s shelter in
Texas, strode ontoher airplane in anolive green Zaraarmy jacket withthose wordsscrawled in fauxwhite graffiti on
the back, it sent the watchingworld into what might be called,with some understatement, ameltdown.
“Insensitive,” “heartless” and“unthinking” were some of thewords hurled through the digi-sphere about the choice.
“It’s a jacket,” her communica-tions director, Stephanie Gr-isham, said in a statement toreporters. “There was no hiddenmessage.”
She’s right, of course. It wasn’thidden. It was literally written onthe first lady’s back. The ques-tion is: Who was the intendedaudience?
The assumption implicit in the
outrage is that the message wasmeant for those Mrs. Trump wasmeeting. But here’s the thing:The first lady has had someexperience with the attentionpaid when she boards planes.
First Lady’s $39 Jacket MakesA Statement, but What Kind?
Continued on Page A14
ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANESSAFRIEDMAN
CRITIC’SNOTEBOOK
Melania Trump at Joint BaseAndrews after her trip.
Charles Krauthammer, 68, abandonedpsychiatry to become a Pulitzer-win-ning columnist and TV commentatorwith an independent streak.
OBITUARIES B16
A Polished Conservative Voice
To discuss making it happen, John R.Bolton, the national security adviser, isgoing to Russia next week. PAGE A9
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
Trump Seeks Putin Meeting
ABC, which canceled the popular sit-com “Roseanne” last month after itsstar, Roseanne Barr, made a racisttweet, will reunite the cast, minus Ms.Barr, in “The Conners.” PAGE B1
‘Roseanne’ Without Roseanne
DeAndre Ayton, a 7-foot-1 center, wasselected first by Phoenix in an N.B.A.draft that focused on big men. PAGE B13
SPORTSFRIDAY B8-15
The N.B.A. Lives Large
Today, some sunshine, then clouds,not as warm, high 75. Tonight,cloudy, periodic rain and drizzle late,low 63. Tomorrow, thunderstorms,high 73. Weather map, Page A22.
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