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Political Cornflakes: Justice Department agrees to hand over Mueller documents to the House in last-minute deal

Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, and Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., right, speak following a House Judiciary Committee hearing without former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who was a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. President Donald Trump directed McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify but the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has threatened to hold McGahn in contempt of Congress if he doesn't appear. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Happy Wednesday! The House Intelligence Committee will not enforce a subpoena against Attorney General William P. Barr as planned Wednesday, after the Justice Department agreed at the 11th hour to produce the redacted material and underlying information from the special counsel’s report that the panel sought, albeit more slowly than it wanted. The committee, though, will keep the subpoena alive until it receives the documents, expected by the end of next week. [WaPost]

Topping the news: Rather than increasing taxes, Utah legislative leaders say they want to “shift some money around between the income tax and the sales tax in order to maintain the balance.” [Trib]

-> Former Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams vetoed a proposal for zoning in the Olympia Hills area near Herriman after hundreds of protestors claimed it would overcrowd already crowded schools. On Tuesday, the County Council approved a procedure to allow developers to reapply. [Trib]

Happy birthday: To Sego Strategies’ Joe Pyrah and to Michael Jolley.

Tweets of the day: From @molleymcnearney: “We should try holding our politicians to the same standard we’ve set for producers of Game of Thrones.”

-> From @kristenfrankly: “A little school girl just walked into the Rotunda and gasped — ‘WOW, look at the pretty bubble roof!!!’ And so it shall forever be a pretty bubble roof.”

-> From @thesidetrack: “Funny thing about self-styled moderates is their dependency on both-sidesing everything renders them incapable of correctly identifying extremes #utpol

Also in the news: Utah’s senators joined forces with two members of the House to introduce a bill designating federal funds for natural disaster spending. [DNews]

-> After two incidents where racial slurs and death threats were used against the opposing team, two Utah high schools each called for punishment of the opposing school’s head boys’ basketball coach. [Trib]

-> The woman charged with a Class B misdemeanor for yelling “stop protecting sexual predators” at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ General Conference will now face an infraction, rather than a misdemeanor. [KUTV]

-> The Tribune editorial board discusses how “the way to be pro-life is to be pro-choice.” [Trib]

Nationally: President Trump is expected to appoint Ken Cuccinelli, a former attorney general from Virginia and an immigration hardliner, to coordinate the White House’s immigration policies. [NYTimes]

-> As former White House counsel Don McGahn failed to appear to a scheduled congressional hearing, more Democrats are calling for impeachment of the president. [NYTimes]

-> National security officials say their moves toward diplomacy with Iran have deterred the country from a military attack. [NYTimes]

-> Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen told a House panel during a closed hearing earlier this year that another of Trump’s lawyers encouraged him to lie to the panel about when a project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ended. [WaPost]

-> Top White House officials and congressional leaders are pushing the president to accept a two-year budget deal that would reduce the possibility of another government shutdown until the end of President Trump’s first term. [WaPost]

-> House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited a Chinese government-backed manufacturer with a plant in his district. [WaPost]

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-- Thomas Burr and Alison Berg