Trump’s Agenda Stalls

Politico: “A year and a half into his second term, Trump’s legislative agenda is stalled in a Congress he has undermined. He has yet to end the war he started in Iran, let alone the one he’s spent months trying to end between Russia and Ukraine. A series of court rulings has stopped the administration in its tracks on everything from an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that could have been used to compensate the president’s political allies to renaming the Kennedy Center.”

“Even the culture Trump has spent years trying to bend to his will is showing signs of resistance as artists bail on the Freedom 250 festival, the triumphalist celebration he envisioned as one of the capstones of his second term.”

“Trump allies describe a sense of burnout inside the White House driven by a nearly all-encompassing focus on ending the Iran war, which has already lasted twice as long as the president suggested it might. Privately, they wonder whether a staff shakeup would snap the administration out of its malaise.”