“Paul Ingrassia, a conservative activist who withdrew his nomination to oversee a government watchdog agency last month after Politico reported he made racist comments in a group chat, said Thursday he is moving to a new job in the administration,” Politico reports.

Ingrassia said in one of the texts: “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it.”

Daily Beast: Trump rewards failed ‘Nazi’ nominee with new top job.

Laura Rozen: “For the first nine/ten months of Trump’s second term, it seemed that he wielded virtually unchecked power, with a supplicant Republican Senate, House and Supreme Court, incompetent but purely loyal cabinet chiefs like Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi in place solely because they would not refuse Trump’s illegal demands to use US troops against Americans in American cities, and to prosecute Trump’s perceived political critics, or pardon his corrupt henchmen, which he continues to do at an astonishing pace.”

“But in the past week, Trump’s power has been facing a new reality check that even he at some level seems to have acknowledged is not fully in his control or malleable to his propaganda: American voters blame Trump and the GOP for the high cost of living and worsening economy under their unified control of Washington.”

“President Donald Trump’s push to send a tariff rebate check to Americans would take an act of Congress, his top economic advisers acknowledge,” Politico reports.

“Support among Republicans on Capitol Hill is lukewarm, at best.”