Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — Scoop: Trump plans summit with tech titans — N.Y. Times launches 'Say Something Nice About Donald Trump' campaign — Apple's massive cash
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 06:00:29 -0400 (EDT)

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Scoop: Trump plans summit with tech titans — N.Y. Times launches='Say Something Nice About Donald Trump' campaign — Apple's massive=cash

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By Mike Allen = ·May 01, 2017

1 big thing: New Trump overture to Silicon Valley

First in Axios AM ... President Trump is establishing a= American Technology Council to help the government deliver better digital=services. The administration is bringing big names from the Silicon Valley=to the White House in early June, to try get ideas and cooperation from a =roup that has been skeptical.

What it does: Of=icials say the new council is part of the efforts by Jared Kushner's White=House Office of American Innovation to unite the government with private-s=ctor ideas to solve long-term problems. The ATC will coordinate strategy w=th other departments and agencies, and funnel advice to Trump.

Why it matters: The White House will announce the council tod=y as part of an effort to show it's thinking ahead to the next 1,000 days =E2�� the rest of the term (actually 1,361). The innovation office want= to take what it learned in the first 100 days and turn it into action. <=li>
The summit: About 20 leading tech CEO= will spend half a day in working sessions. We're told a few tech titans h=ve indicated a willingness to participate. The CEOs have to worry about bl=wback from their workforces, so dealing with this administration will alwa=s be delicate. But we're told some have shown excitement about the biparti=an issue of modernizing government.

The backs=ory: Modernizing government IT has been a passion project of Kush=er's. The council will be run by two of Kushner's lieutenants, Chris Lidde=l and Reed Cordish, assistant to the president for intra-governmental and =echnology initiatives. Liddell — the White House director of strat=gic initiatives, and former CFO of Microsoft and GM — will be the =ouncil's director.

Between the lines: Kushner has a stunningly broad portfolio, and is building a formidable in=ernal team.

FYI: In add=tion to Kushner, Liddell and Cordish, members of the ATC include the Presi=ent, who is chairman; the Vice President; SecDef; Secretary of Commerce; S=cretary of Homeland Security; Director of National Intelligence; OMB Direc=or; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and U.S. CTO.=/li>

2. Email du jour

Mark McKinnon — agreeing with my Day=100 point that Trump has been more conventional than critics feared or=diehards hoped — reminds me that in the closing scene of Season 1 =f Showtime's "The Circus," McKinnon said as he left the White house after =rump met with Obama on Nov. 10:

by this outcome, I would just say=this: Maybe your greatest hopes are not going to be realized. But I think =hat probably your greatest fears won't be, either."

3. Accomplishment Week ahead?

Trump in Harrisburg on Saturday night / AP's Carolyn Kaster

Axios' Jonathan Swan — in Snea= Peek, his Sunday evening newsletter, scooped that top White House and Hil= leadership sources think this could be Acco=plishment Week, with a health-care bill passing the House. Last night,=leaders announced a deal to fund the government thro=gh Oct. 1. Today's front pages:

Wall Street J=urnal lead story, "Trum= Pushes For Vote On Health," by Louise Radnofsky and Kristina Peterson= "Both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in television =nterviews Sunday suggested confidence that they could win enough votes to =ass a bill to undo the Affordable Care Act. But skepticism among centrist =embers of the party remains a stumbling block."

WashPost, top of column 1, "=a href="http://link.axios.com/click/9509905.32010/aHR0cDovL3d3dy53YXNoaW=ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG93ZXJwb3N0L2NvbmdyZXNzLXJlYWNoZXMtZGVhbC10by1rZWVwLWdvd=Vybm1lbnQtb3Blbi10aHJvdWdoLXNlcHRlbWJlci8yMDE3LzA0LzMwLzVmNThlOWQyLTJkZjct=TFlNy05ZGVjLTc2NGRjNzgxNjg2Zl9zdG9yeS5odG1sP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ=dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2F4aW9zYW0/5871993924=17c54d77a8b8cB0147cab2" target="_blank">Congress makes deal to prevent s=utdown," by Kelsey Snell: "Congress is expected to vote on the roughly=$1 trillion package early this week. The bipartisan agreement includes pol=cy victories for Democrats, whose votes will be necessary to pass the meas=re in the Senate, as well as $12.5 billion in new military spendin= and $1.5 billion more for border security."

Key point,=by AP's Andy Taylor: "The catchall spending bill would be the firs= major piece of bipartisan legislation to advance during Trump's =hort tenure in the White House."

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4. Gray Lady courts Trump Country

President Trump got a 100-day gift yesterday from the p=per he had called "totally failing" at a rally the night before: The New Y=rk Times' Sunday Review began a campaign to get readers to "Say Something =ice About Donald Trump," and a cover story of the section respectfully cha=neled the Steve Bannon world view.

What's going on here= Neither of the pieces was sarcastic. Both are part of the paper'= effort to be more relevant in the Trump era. The paper's digital subscrib=rs notably under-index in the heartland, a potential area of growth. Bret =tephens, a conservative columnist hired from the Wall Street Journal, debu=ed in Saturday's paper, calling for more balance in the climate-c=ange debate.

Editorial Page Editor James Bennet =ells me in an email these are "a convergence of efforts that have been und=rway for some time to open up our range."

In Sunday's =aper:

Michael Kinsley, the leading li=eral, wrote an opinion piece, "The Upside=to the Presidential Twitter Feed," praising Trump for composing tweets=himself, and making "social media almost a part of our constitutional syst=m": "[T]he average citizen now has a view straight into the president's id="

But the surprising part was the last graf: "So =hat's one good thing he has done for the country. Can you think of another= Please let me know at [email-masked]. We'll be revisiting this=theme regularly in Sunday Review."

Bennet tells me: "The say-something-nice feature was Mike's great idea, and it is sincere= If also arch, in the high Kinsley style."

On=the section's cover, in a piece called "The New Party of 'America First,'" theologian R.R. Reno, =ditor of the journal First Things, writes: "Mr. Trump's shocking success a= the polls has done our country a service. Scholars may tut-tut about the =istorical connotations of 'America First,' but the basic sentiment needs t= be endorsed. Our country has dissolved to a far greater degree than those=cloistered on the coasts allow themselves to realize."

5. Trump's American Pipe Dream

Rebecca Zisser / Axios

Axios' Amy Harder's weekly energy column, "Harder Line," reports= "Pipeline, oil and gas companies — along with their Beltway lobby=ng groups — are telling the Trump administration that domestic ste=l requirements would be almost impossible to meet and prohibitively expens=ve."

6. Beyond the Beltway: EPA workers stick up for their jobs

This sounds unusual — let me know if you have h=ard about similar resistance by federal employees in your area. T=e Chicago Tribune's front page spotlights protests by EPA employees ab=ut planned Trump budget cuts, with local workers hoping that educating the=public on cleanup jobs may save some jobs:

"At the EPA=s Chicago office, which oversees the agency's work in six states =round the Great Lakes, employees have participated in rallies protesting T=ump's policies, organized a social media campaign and showed up at=community forums to promote what they do for a living."

<=trong>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — who as Oklahoma at=orney general sued the EPA 14 times — "is proposing to cut grants =hat finance state environmental programs by 45 percent."

"[T]he EPA has always been unpopular =n some quarters. The agency ... draws criticism from groups that feel the =PA moves too slowly or succumbs to political pressure."

Wh= it matters: "People in places like Flint [Mich.] still look to t=e EPA for help."

7. Collision of tech and business

Wall Street Journal front page, "Apple's Mountain of Cash Is Set to Top $250 Billion," b= Tripp Mickle: "The money, more than 90% of which is stockpiled outside of=the U.S., has drawn fresh attention as ... Trump has proposed slashing bus=ness taxes and granting a one-time tax holiday on corporate cash brought h=me."

Why it matters: "Those policies could rat=het up pressure on the tech giant to dole out more money to shareholders o= make splashy acquisitions."

The narrative ...Trump's first 100 days were actually pretty goo= for tech," by Axios Tech Editor Kim Hart: "A number of Silicon Valley=s post-election fears didn't materialize in the first 100 days — i=cluding a significantly gutted H-1B visa program and calls for increased l=w enforcement access to encrypted data. ... A number of big-ticket issues =till wait in the wings, like patent reform, merger reviews and encryption.=

8. Disturbing and important

" of sex assaults by K-12 students": "=cross the U.S., thousands of students have been sexually assaulted, by oth=r students, in high schools, junior highs and even elementary schools �=80� a hidden horror educators have long been warned not to ignore."

9. Worthy of your time

The New Yorker's Evan Osnos, "How Trump Could Get Fired:=The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from offic=":

"During the past few mo=ths, I interviewed several dozen people about the prospects of cu=ting short Trump's Presidency. I spoke to his friends and advisers; to law=akers and attorneys who have conducted impeachments; to physicians and his=orians; and to current members of the Senate, the House, and the intellige=ce services. ...

"Alt=ough some of my sources maintained that laws and politics protect=the President to a degree that his critics underestimate, others argued th=t he has already set in motion a process of his undoing. All agree that Tr=mp is unlike his predecessors in ways that intensify his political, legal,=and personal risks. He is the first President with no prior experience in =overnment or the military, the first to retain ownership of a business emp=re, and the oldest person ever to assume the Presidency."

10. 1 fun thing

Decorations at the weekend's closing bash, CNN's big-top-themed Politica= Hangover brunch

Sum-up of White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend, b= N.Y. Times' Michael Grynbaum on page A15, "Typically Chummy Ri=ual Offers Moment of Catharsis":

<=m>Loud cheers and a palpable sense of defiance broke out =hen the president of the Correspondents' Association, Jeff Mason of Reuter=, declared with sermonlike ferocity: "We are not fake news. We are not fai=ing news organizations. And we are not the enemy of the American people." =t was the longest ovation of the night. ...

The celebrity quotient was notably low. The=biggest Hollywood names in attendance included the actors Matthew Modine a=d Alan Ruck.

[J]ournal=sts who did attend were greeted outside the event site, the Washi=gton Hilton, by an unexpected sight: a small group of supporters, some fro= as far away as Boston, who had come to cheer the news media.

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