Trump dismisses Senate immigration proposal as “a total waste of time.” The Utah House passes measure to give $1.72 million tax break to EnergySolutions. More people are entering treatment since Operation Rio Grande, state leaders say.

Happy Tuesday. A new bipartisan plan proposed in the Senate would grant permanent legal status to young undocumented immigrants called “Dreamers” while also bolstering border security. But it didn’t get any praise from President Donald Trump, who had asked for $25 billion to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. He quickly dismissed the legislation as “a total waste of time.” [WaPost]

Topping the news: The Utah House voted Monday to pass a bill that would give a $1.72 million annual tax break to EnergySolutions, the biggest donor to Utah lawmakers in 2017. [Trib]

-> State Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, chairman of the House Rules Committee and admirer of Philo T. Farnsworth, blocked a request Monday to assign to committee the bill that would replace Farnsworth’s statue in the U.S. Capitol with a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon. [Trib]

-> The number of people entering substance-abuse treatment has increased in the six months since Operation Rio Grande began to reduce homelessness, Utah leaders said Monday. [Trib] [DNews] [KSL]

Tweets of the day: From @petridishes: “hey there are you the Dow Jones Industrial Average because you seem pretty down and i don’t know what to do about it”

-> From @aedwardslevy: “TRUMP LOSES BENEFIT OF THE DOW”

Happy Birthday: To Michael Parker, the Salt Lake Chamber’s vice president of public policy.

In other news: The Utah Senate Transportation Committee endorsed a bill Monday that aims to reorganize the Utah Transit Authority. [Trib] [DNews]

-> The Utah House passed a bill Monday that would ban parents from seeking abortions if the fetus was diagnosed with Down syndrome. [Trib] [DNews]

-> Provo is home to a new speech clinic that can help transgender individuals match their voice to their gender identity. [Trib]

-> Pat Bagley depicts the hype surrounding the release of a Republican memo accusing the FBI of abusing its surveillance powers. [Trib]

-> Robert Gehrke voices his support for a Utah bill that would allow drugs to be imported from Canada, a measure he believes would help Utahns sidestep high prescription prices. [Trib]

Nationally: President Donald Trump’s lawyers have advised him not to interview with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into possible Russian collusion in the 2016 election. [NYTimes]

-> The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release the Democratic memo that could serve as a counterweight to the Republican memo released last Friday. [WaPost]

-> The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 1,600 points Monday — the largest single-day point fall it has ever seen. The decrease could pose challenges for Trump, who celebrated stock-market gains in his State of the Union address last week. [Politico]

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— Courtney Tanner and Madalyn Gunnell

Twitter.com/CourtneyLTanner and Twitter.com/madmcgunnell

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