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Friday, May 26, 2017
Trump tells NATO leaders to pay up
BRIEFLY
Governors seek
federal salmon
disaster aid
President says U.S.
paying too much,
asks allies to boost
military spending
PORTLAND (AP) —
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
and California Gov. Jerry
Brown are seeking a federal
disaster declaration to help
salmon fishermen enduring
a second bad year in a row.
A record-low number
of fall-run Chinook salmon
returning to the Klamath
River has led to fisheries
restrictions, including the
cancellation of the season
along a large stretch of
coastal southern Oregon
and Northern California.
In letter dated
Wednesday, the governors
asked Secretary of
Commerce Wilbur Ross for
an expedited declaration
of a catastrophic regional
fishery disaster, a move
necessary for fishing
businesses to request
federal assistance.
The letter asserts that
Oregon’s commercial
ocean salmon fisheries are
projected to earn 63 percent
less revenue than what they
averaged from 2012-16.
California fisheries are
expected to make 72
percent less.
Associated Press
BRUSSELS
—
Surrounded by stone-faced
allies, President Donald
Trump rebuked fellow NATO
members Thursday for
failing to meet the military
alliance’s financial bench-
marks, asserting that leaves
it weaker and shortchanges
“the people and taxpayers of
the United States.”
Trump, who has often
complained back home about
other nations’ NATO support,
lectured the other leaders in
person this time, declaring,
“Many of these nations owe
massive amounts of money
from past years.”
The president’s assertion
immediately put NATO
under new strain and did
nothing to quiet questions
about
his
complicated
relationship with an alliance
he has previously panned
as “obsolete.” Notably, he
also did not offer an explicit
public
endorsement
of
NATO’s “all for one, one for
all” collective defense prin-
ciple, though White House
officials said his mere pres-
ence at the meeting signaled
his commitment.
Fellow NATO leaders
occasionally
exchanged
awkward looks with each
other during the president’s
lecture, which occurred at an
event commemorating the
fall of the Berlin Wall and
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks. When Trump tried to
lighten the mood with a joke
about NATO’s gleaming new
home base — “I never asked
Thierry Charlier/Pool Photo via AP
US President Donald Trump, right, reacts as he sits next to Britain’s Prime Minister
Theresa May, centre and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as they participate
in a working dinner meeting, during the NATO summit of heads of state and gov-
ernment, at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels on Thursday.
once what the new NATO
Headquarters cost” — there
was no laughter from his
counterparts.
NATO officials had
expected Trump to raise
the payments issue during
Thursday’s meeting, even
preparing Secretary-Gen-
eral Jens Stoltenberg for the
prospect that the president
could try to pull off a stunt
like handing out invoices.
But one European official
said
NATO
members
were still taken aback by
the aggressive tone of his
speech.
As a presidential candi-
date, Trump railed against
NATO’s financial burden-
sharing, suggesting the U.S.
might only come to the
defense of countries that meet
the alliance’s guidelines —
for committing 2 percent of
their gross domestic product
met the 2 percent goal: the
U.S., Greece, Britain, Estonia
and Poland.
During a private dinner
Thursday night, the 28
members, plus soon-to-join
Montenegro, renewed an old
pledge to move toward the 2
percent by 2024 — a move
the White House touted as a
sign of Trump’s influence.
Some of the allies
— particularly Eastern
European nations deeply
worried about Russian
aggression — were hopeful
that Trump would state a
firm commitment to NATO’s
Article 5 mutual defense
agreement, which underpins
the entire alliance. Instead,
he highlighted NATO’s deci-
sion to invoke the article for
the only time after 9/11 and
said the U.S. would “never
forsake the friends that stood
by our side.”
to military spending. A White
House official said the pres-
ident wanted to deliver the
same direct message in front
of NATO allies.
Trump’s public scolding
was all the more remarkable
given the fact that he has
actually backed away from
some of his most provocative
comments on foreign policy
issues since taking office.
He’s retracted his vow to label
China a currency manipulator
and has lavished praise on
Chinese President Xi Jinping.
During a visit to Saudi Arabia
this week, he called Islam one
of the world’s great religions
after declaring during the
campaign that “Islam hates us
But few issues appear to
have as much staying power
with Trump as the uneven
financial contributions of
NATO members. Last year,
only five of the 28 countries
FBI probes
Kushner-Russia
meetings
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Donald
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared
Kushner, is willing to
cooperate with federal
investigators looking into
ties between Russia and
the Trump campaign, his
attorney said Thursday.
The statement from
attorney Jamie Gorelick
was issued amid reports that
the FBI was investigating
meetings Kushner had in
December with Russian
officials.
“Mr. Kushner previously
volunteered to share with
Tribes bash proposed Trump budget cuts to Native Americans
PORTLAND (AP) —
Dozens of Native American
tribes in six Western states
expressed outrage Thursday
at
President
Trump’s
proposed budget cuts to
American Indian programs,
saying they would erase
significant progress on child
welfare and climate change
and gut social services and
education on reservations
across the U.S.
Members from tribes in
Oregon, Washington, Cali-
fornia, Montana, Idaho and
Alaska called on Congress
to restore funding to tribes
during budget negotiations.
The cuts ignore the treaty
responsibilities to federally
recognized tribes, they said,
and put a stranglehold on
programs that have been
chronically underfunded.
“This is the single largest
attack on Indian Country
that we’ve experienced in
recent history. There is no
doubt that the president has
made a statement toward
Indian County,” said Mel
Sheldon, a councilman
with the Tulalip Tribes in
Washington state. “It is not
a good statement.”
The proposed budget
would slash $64 million in
federal Native American
funding for education, $21
million for law enforcement
and safety, $27 million
for
natural
resources
management programs run
by tribes plus $23 million
from human services, which
includes the Indian Child
Welfare Act, said Carina
Miller, a councilwoman
with the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, in
Oregon.
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REGIONAL CITIES
TODAY
SUNDAY
SATURDAY
Pleasant and
warmer
Plenty of sunshine
76° 49°
82° 54°
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
very warm
Sunny and very
warm
TUESDAY
Very warm with
some sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
88° 56°
90° 57°
91° 57°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
88° 52°
82° 48°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
59°
73°
98° (1928)
43°
49°
30° (1918)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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Trace
0.93"
1.06"
9.14"
5.54"
6.17"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
68°
75°
99° (1928)
44°
49°
33° (1964)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.43"
0.90"
6.31"
4.23"
4.89"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
June 1
June 9
Last
96° 57°
97° 61°
Seattle
78/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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Records
93° 55°
5:13 a.m.
8:32 p.m.
6:24 a.m.
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New
June 17 June 23
Today
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Wenatchee
73/51
82/55
Tacoma
Moses
79/49
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 82/51
70/47
72/49
80/48
84/51
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
81/53
78/55 Lewiston
83/48
Astoria
76/51
71/51
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
83/57
Pendleton 65/38
The Dalles 82/48
76/49
86/55
La Grande
Salem
71/43
83/52
Albany
Corvallis 82/50
85/52
John Day
70/43
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
75/49
81/48
73/43
Caldwell
Burns
72/44
68/36
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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WINDS
Medford
87/54
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Klamath Falls
74/40
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today; pleas-
ant. Clear tonight. Sunny to partly cloudy
tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today with a shower in places; warmer
across the north.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Cascades: Sunshine and warmer today;
pleasant in central parts. Clear tonight.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today;
cooler. Increasing clouds at the coast
tonight; clear elsewhere.
Today
Saturday
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NNW 4-8
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WASHINGTON (AP)
— Republicans senators
conceded Thursday that
a scathing analysis of the
House GOP health care bill
had complicated their effort
to dismantle President
Barack Obama’s health
care law.
“It makes everything
harder and more difficult,”
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev.,
said of a Congressional
Budget Office analysis
projecting that the House
bill would cause 23 million
Americans to lose coverage
by 2026 and create
prohibitively expensive
costs for many others.
“There’s blinking
yellow lights throughout
the whole thing,” Sen.
Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., said
of the report by lawmakers’
nonpartisan fiscal experts.
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Forecast
GOP senators
say tough report
complicates bill
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Congress what he knows
about these meetings. He
will do the same if he is
contacted in connection
with any other inquiry,” the
statement said.
Meanwhile, the chairman
of the House oversight
committee asked the FBI to
turn over more documents
about former Director James
Comey’s interactions with
the White House and Justice
Department, including
materials dating back nearly
four years to the Obama
administration.
The FBI and the over-
sight committee — as well
as several other congres-
sional panels — are looking
into Russian meddling in the
2016 presidential election
and possible connections
between Russia and the
Trump campaign. Trump
fired Comey May 9 amid
questions about the FBI’s
investigation, which is now
being overseen by special
counsel Robert Mueller, a
former FBI director.
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National Summary: Wet weather will extend from New England to the northern Plains
today. Storms will erupt from the middle Mississippi Valley to the central Rockies and in
South Florida. Most other areas will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Childress, Texas
Low 25° in West Yellowstone, Mont.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Portland, ME
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Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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