WH touts progress of post-George Floyd directive

But a Trump victory could undo it.

President Joe Biden signs a police reform executive order on May 25, 2022, in the East Room of the White House. Photo by Alex Brandon/AP

👋🏾 Hi, hey, hello! Welcome back to Once Upon a Hill. The election is one week. (😱) Here’s what’s happening today:

• The House and the Senate are out.

• President Joe Biden will receive his daily intelligence briefing before traveling to Baltimore to speak about the impact of his economic agenda on US infrastructure, climate change and union jobs. The president will then travel to Potomac, MD, for a campaign event, followed by a campaign call when he returns to the White House.

• Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Washington, where she will receive briefings and hold staff meetings. This evening, she will give a major speech at the Ellipse. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will attend.

• Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) will join Dan Le Batard and Jon “Stugotz” Weiner on The Dan Le Batard Show this morning before speaking at the Get Out the Vote rally in Savannah, GA. Walz will travel to Columbus, GA to speak at a campaign rally before traveling to Charlotte, NC.

• Mrs. Gwen Walz will travel to Arizona for an early vote mobilization event in Phoenix with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Yassamin Ansari, the Democratic nominee for Arizona’s 3rd congressional district. She will also visit a local field office in Phoenix for a volunteer appreciation event and then join the Harris-Walz campaign’s Creator Action Hub in Los Angeles, where she will engage with influential social media creators who are phone banking battleground states—and creating content in the process—to elect the Harris-Walz ticket.

Several congressional Democrats will campaign for the Harris-Walz ticket today in key battleground states. Here’s a handy guide to who will be where:

• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ): The senator will be joined by former Rep. Gabby Giffords and Tucson Mayor Regina Romero in Tucson to gather with supporters at a food truck and mobilize Arizonans to cast their ballots early.

• House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA): Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) will join the number-two House Democrat in Tempe for a canvas launch with Arizona State University students.

• Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA): The first-term congressman and longtime Harris ally will be in Maryvale, AZ for a field office canvas launch.

• Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA): He will be in Atlanta to cast his ballot with Emory University students.

• Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA): The Georgia Democratic Party Chair and Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) will join TV producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes and Dr. Shawana Moore in Norcross for a press conference on maternal health.

• Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA): Fetterman will join former President Bill Clinton and former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (D-IL) in Johnstown, PA for a ‘Unity’ event. Fetterman and Clinton will also hold an event on the economy at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI): Baldwin, who’s up for reelection in a must-win seat for Senate Democrats, will be in Beloit, Racine, Sheboygan and Green Bay, WI for Get Out the Vote events.

In Senate news, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) will be in Houston to boost Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), the Dallas-area congressman looking to upset Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and become the first Democratic senator in the Lone Star State since Bob Krueger in 1992. Warnock and Allred will hold a women’s roundtable this afternoon local time followed by a Black business leaders roundtable. The two lawmakers will be at Texas Southern University for a GOTV event this evening.

Inside this edition:

• WH touts progress of post-George Floyd directive

• Biden casts early vote for Harris

• Reproductive Freedom For All, Future Forward PAC launch $8 million ad campaign

• Trump MSG rally fallout continues

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JUSTICE

WH touts progress of post-George Floyd directive

The Biden administration will release new analysis today on the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), an operational and searchable resource documenting misconduct by federal law enforcement officers that was established by a criminal justice and police reform executive order President Biden signed in 2022.

But for what the administration touts as meaningful progress on an issue that dominated US politics just a presidential election cycle ago, the future of the program hangs on next week’s results. Former President Donald Trump would likely reverse Biden’s directive, which is why the White House is also urging Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a sweeping police reform bill introduced by former Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Scott (R-SC) in 2021 following Floyd’s murder and other high-profile killings of Black people mostly at the hands of white law enforcement officers, including the shooting of Breonna Taylor.