“Half a dozen House Republicans announced a deal on Sunday to temporarily fund the government with the goal of averting a shutdown at the end of the month. But it’s far from certain that the proposal would unite their fractious conference to send a bill to the Senate, where it is expected to get rejected,” the Washington Post reports.
“The short-term funding bill would keep the government running until Oct. 31 and trigger a one percent cut to current fiscal levels.”
Rolling Stone: “Fully one-third of U.S. states have election deniers in some of the highest positions overseeing elections. That’s according to a new report from States United Democracy Center highlighted by Mother Jones.”
“Although many election deniers lost their races in the 2022 midterms, States United, a non-partisan organization, found that a total of 23 election deniers now hold statewide office positions that give them influential oversight over elections in 17 different states. This includes seven governors, five secretaries of state, and 11 attorneys general.”
“Donald Trump said he hoped Mark Meadows — his final White House chief of staff and a co-defendant in a sweeping racketeering indictment in Georgia stemming from efforts to thwart the 2020 election — was still ‘loyal’ to him,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Trump made his comment during a lengthy interview with Kristen Welker, the new moderator of NBC’s ‘Meet The Press,’ broadcast on Sunday morning. Mr. Trump has been warned by the federal judge in a case also stemming from his efforts to stay in office, brought against him by the special counsel Jack Smith, to avoid saying anything that might affect the testimony of witnesses. His comment about Mr. Meadows could attract new interest.”
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“Donald Trump repeatedly declined in an interview aired Sunday to answer questions about whether he watched the Capitol riot unfold on television,” the AP reports.
Said Trump: “I’m not going to tell you. I’ll tell people later at an appropriate time.”
“President Joe Biden derided the House’s impeachment probe against him, responding with sarcasm when asked about the inquiry launched by Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Biden: “Lots of luck.”
“Donald Trump, whose Supreme Court appointments led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, harshly criticized his top rival in the Republican presidential primary, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, for a six-week abortion ban that he called a ‘terrible thing,’” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Trump issued his broadside — which could turn off socially conservative Republican primary voters, especially in Iowa, where evangelicals are a crucial voting bloc — during an interview with the new host of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Kristen Welker.”
Said Trump: “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
A new CBS News poll finds 64% of voters believe a likely Biden-Trump rematch in 2024 means the political system is broken.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that the Defense Department appropriations bill that was paused last week before it even made it to the floor for debate will come up for a vote this week “win or lose,” CNN reports.
“Donald Trump said he dismissed the views of his own lawyers in continuing to challenge his 2020 defeat because he did not respect them, saying in an interview aired on Sunday that he had made up his own mind that the election had been ‘rigged’ – a false claim that he continues to make,” Reuters reports.
“United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said Sunday that the union is rejecting an offer from one of the Big Three automakers for a 21% wage increase as autoworkers for Ford, General Motors and Chrysler parent company Stellantis went on strike Friday,” CBS News reports.
“The union has asked for 40% pay increases to match the average pay increases of the CEOs at the three companies in recent years.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) called on Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Sunday to follow through on his vow to introduce a motion to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), The Hill reports.
Said Mace: “It hasn’t happened yet, and I am not going to comment on conjecture here. Either he is going to file it or he’s not. If he’s going to do it, put his money where his mouth is.”
A bar owned by Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) apparent new boyfriend staged a drag show earlier this year, the New York Post reports.
“Quinn Gallagher, a Democrat, was caught on video getting frisky with Boebert, apparently grabbing her breast while she appeared to rub his crotch as the pair took in a performance of ‘Beetlejuice’ and the Buell Theater in Colorado.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told Iowa voters that he does indeed have a girlfriend, calling her “a lovely Christian girl,” Politico reports.
“Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy See’s official position at the time that the information it had was vague and unverified,” Reuters reports.
Donald Trump declined to stake out a clear position on the future of abortion rights, but he repeatedly expressed interest in serving as a mediator between “both sides” of the issue to reach an agreement, NBC News reports.
Said Trump: “I think they’re all going to like me. I think both sides are going to like me.”
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quietly has directed the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to no longer enforce the chamber’s informal dress code for its members,” Axios reports.
“The new directive will allow Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who tends to favor gym shorts and hoodies over the business attire traditionally required in the chamber, to linger on the Senate floor before and after votes.”
Donald Trump told NBC News that he isn’t losing sleep over the prospect that he could end up behind bars.
Said Trump: “I don’t even think about it. I’m built a little differently I guess, because I have had people come up to me and say, ‘How do you do it, sir? How do you do it?’ I don’t even think about it.”
He added: “When you say, do I lose sleep? I sleep. I sleep. Because I truly feel that, in the end, we’re going to win.”
Dan Balz: “Impeachment proceedings were not meant to start with theories. In a world turned upside down, that’s what McCarthy has done. The real reason for McCarthy’s decision to launch the inquiry was apparent to all. It was a bow to hard-right members of his conference demanding he do this at a time when the speaker is caught up in internal brawling with those members over funding the government by the Sept. 30 deadline.”
“Some of those members have threatened to try to remove McCarthy as speaker; his hold on the gavel has been tenuous since he barely secured it back in January on the 15th ballot. In pungent language, he told them at a closed-door meeting to bring it on. This is the climate that has led to the invocation of one of the most serious and, until recently, rarely used mechanisms in the Constitution for disciplining a president.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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