| A military parade follows Trump's visit to North Korea and outrage flows from the border. |  |
| FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND | Wednesday, July 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't check your calendar, OnPolitics friends: Yes, it's Wednesday, but we're sending a special pre-Independence Day edition of the newsletter to catch you up before the holiday. Enjoy, and we'll see you next week. | | Back from the G-20 leaders' summit and a visit to North Korea, President Donald Trump is feeling patriotic: His "Salute to America" extravaganza set for July 4 will feature Army tanks, military flyovers and a parade, along with fireworks illuminating "a mile of sky" above Washington. "It will be the show of a lifetime!" Trump said, but others called it an expensive, politicized display: "Trump really was inspired by his visit to North Korea," said Republican analyst and Trump critic Bill Kristol. The event will divert nearly $2.5 million in National Park Service funds primarily meant to improve parks, The Washington Post reported, and the tanks will cost $870,000, an aide told USA TODAY. Expect blowback to Trump's all-American pageantry on Thursday in the form of protests , including the flying of a "Trump Baby" balloon (maybe). | The border photos you can't unsee | | Dangerous conditions described as "a ticking time bomb" at migrant detention facilities can be seen in an inspector general's report released Tuesday. At one Texas station, 51 women were in a cell with a capacity for 40 juveniles, while 71 men huddled in a cell designated for 41. Migrants crowded behind chain-link fences at another Texas facility and slumped under blankets on the floor. | | U.S. lawmakers who visited the facilities called them "broken" and "horrifying." U.S. Border Patrol agents reportedly joked about migrant deaths in a secret Facebook group that surfaced this week, sparking an immediate investigation and criticism from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And in an apparent immigration defeat, Trump seemed to back down on a 2020 census question for which he previously said he would fight "no matter how long." But the Justice Department is still exploring options. |  | | This image released in a report on July 2, 2019, by the US Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General Office shows migrant families overcrowding a Border Patrol facility on June 10, 2019 in McAllen, Texas. | | -, AFP/Getty Images | | This week in Trump: | | |  | | President Donald Trump addressed the press in the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2019 after he signed funding legislation for the border. | | NICHOLAS KAMM, AFP/Getty Images | | This week in 2020 Dems: | | |  | | Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., greets the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. | | Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network | | | Thanks, OnPolitics friends. Get free this week. - Josh Hafner | | Not subscribed to OnPolitics yet? Click here. | | | | MOST SHARED USA TODAY ARTICLES | | | | | | | |
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