West Wing Update + 06/29/19 REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO MISS  In Victory for Trump, U.S. House Democrats Back Down on Border Aid Bill Demands  -Reuters  “Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives backed down to President Donald Trump and passed a $4.6 billion aid package to address a migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border,” Susan Cornwell reports. “Trump, the Republican-controlled Senate and moderate Democrats insisted on finishing the emergency aid bill as soon as possible, without further haggling.” President Trump welcomed the bill’s passage on Twitter. “Bipartisan Humanitarian Aid Bill for the Southern Border just passed. A great job done by all!”  President Trump's Middle East Plan is a Refreshing Change  -CNN  “The Trump administration is no less committed to peace than its predecessors. The key difference is that Trump does not feel tied down by the unsuccessful formulas of the past, and he and his team are willing to openly challenge that conventional thinking,” Jon Lerner writes. “The goal of the Trump plan is to end this decades-long conflict and create conditions for a better life for Palestinians and Israelis.” 🎬Jared Kushner: “This is a very executable plan.”   President Trump Fighting to Fix a Broken Trade System at the G-20  -The Hill  Globalists in Washington and abroad attack President Trump’s trade agenda while ignoring this key fact, Corey Lewandowski writes: “We have a system dominated by nations which engage in all kinds of ways to cheat international trade laws for their own benefit . . . China stands at the forefront of this misbehavior.”  Trump Administration’s Industry-Recognized Apprenticeships Will Keep America Working  -Miami Herald  “Through the White House’s Pledge to America’s Workers, job creators around the nation have committed to nearly 10 million training, upskilling or reskilling opportunities for American students and workers,” Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta write. “That is why the Trump administration is proposing a second apprenticeship model: the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship.” Watch: A message from Ivanka Trump at the G20 Summit  USMCA Will Unleash American Innovation: Dems Must Not Stand in the Way  -Fox Business  “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters this week that the pending U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) would need to be reopened and tweaked before the House will vote on it. This is bad news for America,” Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) writes. “Mexico earlier this month made a monumental step forward in becoming the first country to ratify the deal. With Canada not far behind, it is past time for Pelosi to allow the USMCA to move forward in Congress.”  I am a Former Prisoner. Here's Why Second Chance Hiring is So Important.  -Fox News  “This month, the Trump administration served as a catalyst for perhaps the largest criminal justice public-private-partnership ever assembled, jobs for formerly incarcerated people as they reenter society,” John Koufos writes. “As a former prisoner myself, this initiative is personal to me . . . [President Trump] understands this challenge.”  President Trump Pursues Smart China Strategy Heading Into Meeting With Xi Jinping “At President Trump’s planned meeting Saturday with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Japan, Trump is expected to continue to advance a strategy that his administration introduced in his first six months in office: viewing China as a strategic competitor to the United States and its allies,” writes Dr. Nadia Schadlow, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, in Fox News. “This shift from an enabling posture to a competitive strategy was a response to years of Chinese Communist Party efforts to shape the international system in a way that disadvantaged the United States on trade and advanced China’s authoritarian system.” President Trump has two goals for that approach, Schadlow says. The first is fixing economic relationships so that America is never giving a strategic advantage to an adversary. The second is tilting the global balance of power toward free, open societies. Click here to read more.  “The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was one of the most comprehensive tax overhauls ever enacted,” Bruce Thompson writes in the Washington Examiner. “Yet as far as the media is concerned, the bill only slashed taxes for corporations and the wealthy . . . This characterization of the bill is false and misleading, yet it is an assertion endlessly reported by reporters and pundits in the national media, as well as Democrats.”  “Americans hate to wait. We scout out the shortest grocery line. We choose the fastest delivery option. We chafe at slow-moving internet speeds. And we don’t like to wait for health care when we or our loved ones urgently need it,” Steven Law writes in Fox News. “Why do government-run health care systems—including so-called single-payer schemes like Medicare-for-All—result in long waits for needed care? Because unlike the private sector, government has zero incentive to customize care to individual needs. It achieves efficiencies primarily by doling out one-size-fits-all health care to everyone, regardless of unique circumstances.”  “On behalf of doctors across America and their patients, I am writing to underscore the importance of the executive order President Trump signed this week on ‘Improving Price and Quality Transparency in Healthcare.’ Everyone will benefit from this, save for those who profit from keeping Americans in the dark,” writes Marni Jameson Carey, Executive Director of the Association of Independent Doctors, in the Washington Examiner.