New York Times: “Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as speaker of the House, on Monday threw her significant clout behind a woman in the race to succeed her: Connie Chan, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors.”
Trump Pressures John Thune to Fire Parliamentarian
NOTUS: “President Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president’s ballroom in a budget bill.”
Trump Privately Fumes Over Imperiled Ballroom Funds
“President Trump aired his displeasure with the Senate rules referee during a Monday call with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, criticizing her decision to block a filibuster-proof vote on security money for his East Wing renovation and ballroom,” Semafor reports.
“The president is leaning on the Senate to deliver $1 billion in new Secret Service funding — including $200 million associated with the demolition of the East Wing for his ballroom and other facilities — as part of a larger immigration enforcement funding bill. Doing so would also put Congress’ imprimatur on the stalled ballroom project, which could help restart construction above ground.”
Mike Johnson Predicts GOP Will Net 7-8 House Seats
Speaker Mike Johnson told top donors in D.C. that he believes Republicans will net seven to eight seats from mid-decade redistricting, Punchbowl News reports.
Trump Calls for Probe Into Maryland Voting
“President Donald Trump requested a federal investigation into unsubstantiated claims that Maryland sent hundreds of thousands of ‘illegal’ mail-in ballots to voters,” Bloomberg reports.
Four Virginia Democrats Drop Races
ABC News: “Overturning a new congressional map in Virginia that would have favored Democrats has had an outsized impact on the state’s U.S. House primaries, with at least four high-profile candidates so far suspending their campaigns.”
“With Virginia keeping its current congressional map, which currently has six Democrats and five Republicans, Democratic candidates face the prospect of either running in a GOP-leaning district or of mounting primary bids to incumbent Democrats.”
Trump Loses Grip on His Most Important Demographic
Aaron Blake: “If there’s one demographic group that is synonymous with President Donald Trump’s political rise — and his later rebirth — it’s the White voter without a college degree…”
“But as Trump’s approval rating has fallen to new lows, there are increasing signs that his hammerlock on this group is waning.”
“And it’s looking more like that could damage Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, particularly as this group sours on the president’s stewardship of the economy.”
Stealing Elections, American Style
Coming soon: Stealing Elections, American Style by David Walbert.
Beginning with the backroom deal and flagrant fraud that handed Rutherford Hayes the presidency in 1876, the book takes the reader on a tour through American election malfeasance: the stolen Texas race that put LBJ on the path to the White House, the Georgia State Senate fight that nearly derailed Jimmy Carter’s career before it began, Bush v. Gore, all leading up to the Big Lie of 2020.
Throughout the centuries, the playbook has remained remarkably consistent: control who votes, control how votes are counted, and control who decides when the counting stops.
U.S. Targets Cuba’s Leaders with New Sanctions
“President Trump’s administration slapped sanctions on some of Cuba’s top leaders and its spy agency, as Washington aggressively ratchets up pressure in a bid to end nearly seven decades of communist rule,” Bloomberg reports.
Over 100,000 Family Separations in Trump Crackdown
New York Times: “A new analysis suggests that more than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. And roughly three-quarters of those children are likely U.S. citizens.”
Trump Says He’s Postponing New Iran Attack
President Trump said he is calling off a plan to attack Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three regional powers in the Middle East asked him to “hold off,” CNBC reports.
Trump Turns Attention to the Midterms
“President Trump has returned stateside and so has his administration’s focus, even as the Iran war and the aftermath of his China trip remain front-burner issues,” CNBC reports.
“Trump and his top officials are fanning out across the U.S. this week for events aimed at touting his domestic achievements — a notable pivot after major foreign policy matters in Iran, China, Cuba, Venezuela and elsewhere have dominated headlines for months.”
Thom Tillis Opposes Reconciliation Bill
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told colleagues he will not vote for the GOP’s immigration enforcement reconciliation bill, as currently drafted, Axios reports.
That could make the vote margin very tight, as several GOP senators have raised concerns about White House ballroom funding.
U.S. Demands a Major Role in Greenland
“With the conflict in Iran still smoldering, President Trump’s obsession with Greenland seems like a forgotten sideshow,” the New York Times reports.
“But for the past four months, negotiators from the United States, Greenland and Denmark, which controls Greenland’s foreign affairs, have been holding confidential talks in Washington about Greenland’s future.”
“The talks were meant to give Mr. Trump an offramp to his threats of a military takeover of Greenland and to scale back a crisis that risked breaking apart the NATO alliance. But Greenlandic leaders are worried about what is being proposed, which is a much larger U.S. role on the Arctic island. And they fear that if the conflict with Iran winds down, the president will swing his aggression back on them.”
Gambling Companies Give Millions to Influence Elections
Bloomberg: “The companies behind the sports gambling platforms FanDuel, DraftKings and Fanatics Sportsbook poured $41 million into a new super PAC to spend on state-level candidates across the country.”
Abortion Pill Lawsuit Leaves Trump Silent
New York Times: “Four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established a national right to abortion in 1973, it remains widely available, and the number of abortions per year has actually increased slightly. Much of that is due to the availability of abortion pills. The Food and Drug Administration has so far not walked away from a decision made during the Biden administration to allow access to the abortion pill mifepristone through the mail.”
“But a lawsuit against the F.D.A. now threatens that access, and the Trump administration has remained strikingly silent about it, even as the case reached the Supreme Court this month.”
Republicans Grasp for Contender to Take On Jon Ossoff
New York Times: “Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia is widely regarded as the most vulnerable Democratic senator in the November midterm elections. But on the eve of the primary, there is a creeping anxiety in Republican circles that their party is poorly positioned to challenge him.”
“Eighteen months after President Trump won Georgia by about two percentage points, Republicans in the state worry about national political headwinds, an extended G.O.P. primary fight, and Mr. Ossoff’s popularity, interviews show.”
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Democrats reserve $20 million in TV ads to back Ossoff’s reelection bid.
U.S. to Issue New Russia Oil Waiver
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said his department is issuing a “temporary 30-day general license” allowing the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products that are already loaded on tankers, Bloomberg reports.
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