Wall Street Journal: “After broadening the Republican coalition, Trump is at risk of shrinking it. Trump came close to winning young voters—those under age 30—in 2024, a sharp reversal from his 25-point loss among young voters in 2020. He also made gains among Black, Hispanic and other minority groups, losing by a far smaller margin than in 2020. And he improved his showing among seniors.”

“Now that he is back in the White House, these groups have grown increasingly unhappy with his job performance.”

“Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section,” the Washington Post reports.

“Under the proposal, investigators and prosecutors would also not be required to consult with the section’s attorneys during key steps of probes into public officials, altering a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted.”

“If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated.”

President Trump boosted a wild conspiracy theory that accuses the Clinton family of murdering seven people.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) “criticized Donald Trump in a law school graduation speech Saturday, accusing the Republican president of creating a national emergency by repeatedly violating the rule of law,” CBS News reports.

Said Walz: “I have to be honest with you: You are graduating into a genuine emergency. Every single day, the president of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.”

He added: “This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it’s exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.”

Washington Post: “Across the federal government, a push for early retirement and voluntary separation is fueling a voluntary exodus of experienced, knowledgeable staffers unlike anything in living memory… Other leaders with decades of service are being dismissed as the administration eliminates full offices or divisions at a time.”

Glenn Kessler: “Every presidential administration hypes the numbers in economic deals. Bill Clinton, for instance, claimed the North American Free Trade Agreement would create 1 million jobs. Well, that was a mistake, a placeholder figure that was accidentally left in his prepared remarks, but it’s emblematic of the phony math behind the figures that often dominate the headlines.”

“During President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East, the White House issued a news release titled ‘President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic $1.2 Trillion Economic Commitment in Qatar.’ The text said that he ‘signed an agreement with Qatar to generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion.’”

“Economic commitment? Economic exchange? Those are meaningless buzzwords. No matter. The $1.2 trillion figure ended up in headlines across the world.”

“The goal is to have a number for headlines. No one is going to bother to check in 10 years whether any of this stuff actually happened.”

Rachel Bade: “While Trump spent the week hob-nobbing with crown princes, emirs and titans of industry, Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans were watching Trump’s legislative agenda run slowly aground. Less than two hours after Trump sent his message, a clutch of hard-line conservatives joined with Democrats to tank a key House Budget Committee vote on Trump’s big tax, border and defense bill.”

“It was the latest demonstration that while Johnson and fellow GOP leaders might be within striking distance of advancing the ‘big, beautiful bill,’ Trump remains the essential ingredient to getting anything done on Capitol Hill.”

“So after a five-day, eight-time-zone hiatus, expect the closer to start closing. The coming week, no doubt, will see a flurry of holdouts shuffling back and forth from the Capitol to the White House, not to mention an angry phone call or 20.”