> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://utahpolitics.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Bill Gates backs Utah geothermal project - URL: https://utahpolitics.news/bill-gates-backs-utah-geothermal-project/ - Published: 2025-06-05T13:32:03.000Z - Updated: 2025-07-09T15:50:04.000Z - Author: Bryan Schott - Tags: Morning Memo ## Thursday, June 5, 2025 ## ⏰ Tick Tock Days to Utah's 2025 municipal primary elections (8/12/2025) - **68** Days until Election Day (11/4/2025) - **152** Days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026) - **516** Days until the 2028 presidential election (11/7/2028) - **1,251** ## 👀 Here's what you need to know for Thursday morning: ### UTAH AND THE WEST Utah lawmaker threatens Pride ban for organizations receiving public funds. Experts say that would violate the Constitution. \[[Utah Political Watch](https://utahpolitics.news/utah-lawmaker-threatens-pride-ban-for-organizations-receiving-public-funds-experts-say-that-would-violate-the-constitution/)\] Bill Gates is backing this Utah geothermal company. Will Trump's Republicans? \[[Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/bill-gates-geothermal-fervo-energy-043cf2f3?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Utah lawmaker pushes for short-term staffing boost to reduce teacher misconduct backlog. \[[KUTV](https://kutv.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/utah-lawmaker-pushes-for-short-term-staffing-boost-to-reduce-teacher-misconduct-backlog?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] The Utah Fits All voucher program wants families to reapply for scholarships that were already supposed to be awarded. Why? \[[Salt Lake Tribune](https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/06/05/utah-fits-all-voucher-program/?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Report: Utah higher education students received $1.6B in federal student aid awards. \[[KSL](https://www.ksl.com/article/51324298/report-utah-higher-education-students-received-16b-in-federal-student-aid-awards-?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] "The power belongs to the parents": Rep. Owens, Education chief back school choice and parental rights. \[[Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/06/04/department-of-education-hearing-removing-dei-burgess-owens/?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Utah lawmakers discuss a way to prevent cavities: Give school kids gum. \[[Salt Lake Tribune](https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06/05/after-banning-fluoride-public/?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Utah communities should prepare now for catastrophic wildfires, report warns. \[[Fox 13](https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/utah-communities-should-prepare-now-for-catastrophic-wildfires-report-warns?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Trump signs resolution allowing for expanded motorized recreation around Lake Powell. \[[Utah News Dispatch](https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/06/05/glen-canyon-national-recreation-area-lake-powell-off-road-access/?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] ### NATIONAL The Congressional Budget Office says President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill, will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. \[[Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/cbo-deficits-tax-cuts-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-64d7de49aef62ba07b7f6f45c1ca73d1?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] - Republican senators are considering deep cuts to federal spending, up to $2 trillion, to make the tax cuts passed in 2017 permanent. \[[Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/06/04/senate-republicans-spending-cuts-trump?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] - 10.9 million people would lose health insurance under Trump's tax cut bill, CBO projects. \[[STAT](https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/trump-tax-bill-health-care-impact-cbo-says-nearly-11-million-people-will-lose-insurance/?%5Fhsmi=364843254&ref=utahpolitics.news)\] - Billionaire Elon Musk is continuing his social media attacks on Trump's tax and spending bill, urging lawmakers to "KILL the BILL." \[[CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/musk-trump-tax-bill.html?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] The Trump administration is spending $2.1 million to study whether DEI policies played any part in recent plane crashes. \[[Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/government-investigating-whether-dei-causes-plane-crashes/683038/?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into whether some of the policies enacted by his predecessor, Joe Biden, were invalid because aide enacted them without his knowledge. \[[New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-biden-investigation.html?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] - Former President Biden called Trump's investigation announcement "ridiculous." \[[Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/biden-trump-autopen-investigation-mental-fitness?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] ### INTERNATIONAL Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Denmark will not yield to President Trump's "unacceptable" pressure over Greenland. \[[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/denmark-wont-bend-trumps-pressure-over-greenland-prime-minister-says-2025-06-05/?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] ### ECONOMY Under President Biden, the Internal Revenue Service doubled the number of audits of wealthy Americans. \[[New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/upshot/tax-audits-wealthy-biden-trump.html?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Private-sector firms added 37,000 jobs in May, falling significantly short of what economists' projections of 130,000 jobs. That's the lowest in more than two years. \[[CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/economy/us-private-sector-hiring-adp-may?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] The U.S. trade deficit fell by more than half in April as imports plunged after President Trump announced his tariff policy. \[[ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-trade-deficit-narrowed-significantly-amid-trumps-tariff/story?id=122527635&ref=utahpolitics.news)\] ### EDUCATION President Trump suspended entry into the United States of foreign nationals seeking to study at Harvard University. \[[CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/trump-moves-to-block-us-entry-for-foreigners-planning-to-study-at-harvard-university-.html?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] The Department of Education is going after Columbia University's accreditation, saying the school is violating federal anti-discrimination laws by allowing harassment of Jewish students. \[[Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/education-department-goes-after-columbia-universitys-accreditation-00386694?ref=utahpolitics.news)\] Big budget cuts at the Department of Education have brought investigations of civil-rights violations to a standstill. \[[Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-department-education-civil-rights-offices-dc9c0176?mod=politics%5Flead%5Fpos3&ref=utahpolitics.news)\]