A new CNN poll finds President Trump’s disapproval rating stands at 63%, marking the numerically highest disapproval rating of either of his two terms.
This surpasses the previous high of 62% recorded as he departed office in January 2021.
GOP Leaders Not Budging on Obamacare Subsidies
Punchbowl News: “Even as party leaders and Trump refuse to meet with each other on ending the standoff, rank-and-file senators on both sides are talking, focusing on finding some agreement on FY2026 spending bills. The hope is that an agreement on spending can help unlock the shutdown.”
“Those bipartisan talks continued over the weekend, and there’s some optimism about getting to a resolution.”
“However, Trump and the GOP leaders are showing no signs of caving on extending the expiring Obamacare premium subsidies. Schumer and Jeffries continue to demand an extension as part of any deal to reopen the government. So the standoff grinds on. Open enrollment began on Saturday.”
How Vance and Rubio’s Came Out on Top
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance have become each other’s primary sounding boards in the West Wing as the pair work together to help shape and execute President Donald Trump’s foreign policy,” Politico reports.
“Rubio — the nation’s top diplomat and Trump’s national security adviser — spends most of his time not at the State Department but inside the White House, where he makes use of the NSA office.”
“Their working relationship, always closely examined, is newly under the microscope this week after Trump again intimated that Vance and Rubio are his two most-likely successors.”
Graham Platner Is Full Steam Ahead
Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) told NBC News he’s pushing ahead with his Senate race and insisted he’s a more “electable” candidate than Democratic rival Gov. Janet Mills.
Said Platner: “It is amusing for me to watch the campaign described in the media as collapsing or falling apart — when internally, we frankly have not felt this strong since the beginning.”
Trump Won’t Send Tomahawks to Ukraine
President Trump told reporters that he’s not considering sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine — at least for now, the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “Sometimes you have to let them fight it out.”
Trump Pushes Again to End Filibuster
President Trump, in his ongoing effort to dismantle the Senate filibuster, made his third impassioned plea to his party within three days last night.
Congress to Crush U.S. Record This Week for Shutdown
“Congress is on track this week to break an unflattering record: presiding over the longest government shutdown in U.S. history,” Politico reports.
“The ongoing funding lapse will hit the 35-day mark Tuesday night, eclipsing the partial shutdown that ended in early 2019 and also occurred under President Donald Trump.”
Playbook: ”White House officials had been running an informal pool at the start of the shutdown over how long the whole thing would last. The longest anyone predicted was 10 days.”
Democrats’ Frustration with Party Sees Sharp Increase
Democrats are increasingly losing faith in their party and its leaders — far outpacing Republicans who have doubts about the GOP, a new Pew Research poll finds.
Key finding: 67% of Democrats say they’re frustrated with their party, up from about half in Pew polls from 2021 and 2019.
How the U.S. Economy Has Defied Doomsday Predictions
“When President Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April, economists predicted surging inflation and raised the odds of a recession. Companies and consumers stockpiled to get ahead of price rises. Those worries now seem overblown,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Inflation, while too high, is lower than forecasts. And the economy continues to grow despite the steepest tariffs in almost a century.”
Elections Offer Democrats a Chance to Get Off the Mat
“After more than nine months of President Trump using the full force of the federal government to impose his will on the nation, elections across the country on Tuesday will offer the Democratic Party its biggest chance yet to assert its viability as a serious opposition party,” the New York Times reports.
Wall Street Journal: Election wins Tuesday won’t ease the Democratic Party’s troubles.
Most Don’t Think Trump Wants Free Speech, Fair Justice
“A majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump is not committed to protecting freedom of speech, ensuring a fair criminal justice system or preserving free and fair elections,” according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs
“Again and again since President Trump returned to the White House, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has blessed his boundary-pushing policies, allowing them to take effect on an interim basis while litigation plays out in the lower courts,” the New York Times reports.
“But on Wednesday, the justices will consider for the first time whether to say “no” to Mr. Trump in a lasting way.”
“At issue is the legality of his signature economic policy: the use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner. The outcome of the case could significantly affect the global economy, American businesses and consumers.”
Axios: Supreme Court to decide fate of Trump’s tariffs.
The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
New York Times: “Over nearly nine months, the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding has ricocheted around the federal judiciary but still has not reached a final resolution. It has been reviewed by 21 judges, spawned thousands of pages of filings and lumbered forward even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.”
Trump Fuels a Nationwide Scramble for Power
New York Times: “Redrawing congressional maps ahead of a midterm election to eke out more safe seats before any votes are cast is not part of the ordinary run-up to the midterms. At such a national scale, it is a historic break from decades of settled norms regarding when and how legislative lines are drawn.”
“Yet this midcycle redistricting effort is at the center of Mr. Trump’s strategy to win the midterms and prevent Democratic control of the House of Representatives, which would give Democrats the power to open investigations and thwart the president’s agenda. What began over the summer in Texas, with the drawing of five new Republican-favored seats at Mr. Trump’s behest, has spiraled into a nationwide redistricting arms race.”
George Clooney Thinks Kamala Harris Was a ‘Mistake’
Though George Clooney doesn’t regret his New York Times op-ed urging former president Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential election, he does think it was a “mistake” having Kamala Harris step in as the democratic nominee, the Hollywood Reporter reports.
Said Clooney: “We had a chance. I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going.”
Trump Says It’s ‘Illegal’ for Late-Night Host to Mock Him
Donald Trump lashed out at Seth Meyers, saying that he watched the late-night NBC show for “the first time in years” and that Meyers’ criticism of him is “probably illegal,” the Daily Beast reports.
Trump Reverses Course on Visiting Supreme Court
“President Donald Trump said Sunday he won’t be in attendance at the Supreme Court this week for a pivotal legal showdown that could gut the tariff policy at the center of his economic agenda,” Politico reports.
“Trump had flirted publicly with going to the oral arguments in the tariff case Wednesday, even though such a move by a sitting president would appear unprecedented. But as he returned to the White House from Florida on Sunday, he told reporters on Air Force One that he doesn’t plan to go.”
Fox News Tricked by AI Videos
“Fox News fell for a series of AI-generated videos this weekend in which fake SNAP beneficiaries bitterly complain and threaten to ‘ransack’ grocery stores, then rewrote the post and acknowledged the error,” The Wrap reports.
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