Ezra Klein: “I’m not going to tell you I am absolutely sure Democrats should shut the government down. I’m not. At the same time, joining Republicans to fund this government is worse than failing at opposition. It’s complicity. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders.”
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Oil Tycoons’ Big Bet on Trump Is Paying Off
Wall Street Journal: “The Trump administration is opening swaths of wilderness land and federal waters to drilling, approving new terminals to export natural gas and proposing to ax environmental regulations, including an Obama-era rule used to curb emissions from power plants, tailpipes and oil-and-gas production. His One Big Beautiful Bill is expected to hobble renewable-energy projects and stunt the adoption of electric vehicles.”
“Oil executives now enjoy extraordinary access to the White House.”
RFK Jr. Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
New York Times: “Instead of being guided by rigorous research and nuanced debate over complex issues that defy easy answers, the country’s health secretary rejects facts that do not fit his theories and casts out experts who are not aligned with him. He is buoyed by the support of a vocal populist base that shares his suspicions of organized medicine and is energized by his push for a new approach.”
“Mr. Kennedy’s distrust of his department’s scientists and doctors has created turmoil within the nation’s public health agencies, particularly the C.D.C. Mass firings and restructuring have stripped the institution of expertise. And the health secretary dismissed an entire panel of vaccine experts and fired the C.D.C. director — whom he had called a ‘brilliant microbiologist and a tech wizard’ — just one month after the Senate confirmed her.”
Tucker Carlson Would Apologize to Bin Laden’s Family
Tucker Carlson said he would apologize to Osama Bin Laden’s family for the fact he was killed by SEAL Team 6, Mediaite reports.
Johnson Backs Off Claim Trump Was an FBI Informant
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday backed off his claim that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Washington Post reports.
Democrats Weigh Risky ‘Mini-Convention’
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Trump Takes Credit for Infrastructure Projects
New York Times: “In recent months, a number of similar signs have popped up in front of major infrastructure projects financed by the bipartisan 2021 legislation, a $1.2 trillion package that Mr. Trump, who left office in January of that year, had passionately railed against. He called the bill ‘a loser for the U.S.A.,’ and warned that Republican lawmakers who signed on could be thrown out of office by angry primary voters…”
“The signs bearing Mr. Trump’s name now adorn bridge projects in Connecticut and Maryland; rail-yard improvement projects in Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia; and the replacement of a tunnel on Amtrak’s route between Baltimore and Washington.”
Allred Has the Edge Over Talarico
A Public Policy Polling survey in Texas finds Colin Allred (D) leading James Talarico (D) in the Democratic Senate primary, 40% to 32%.
Trump Declares War on Chicago
President Trump posted a meme that reimagined Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War dystopia “Apocalypse Now.”
In the poster military helicopters fly over the Chicago skyline while there’s a raging explosion.
And the caption from Trump: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.”
Associated Press: Trump threatens Chicago with apocalyptic force and Pritzker calls him a “wannabe dictator.”
California GOP Braces for Redistricting ‘Catastrophe’
“Republicans wield almost no power in California. But as a moribund state party gathered here over the weekend, it confronted an even grimmer reality now suddenly settling in: If the state gerrymanders its congressional map, they’ll practically be an endangered species,” Politico reports.
Said GOP delegate Dale Quasny: “It’s a guillotine. We won’t be able to pick up the pieces and move forward. I mean, we were making a little headway, but this would be a catastrophe.”
Some Republicans Are Now Worried About RFK Jr.
“Seven months after they voted to confirm longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the nation’s health secretary, some Republican senators are having second thoughts,” the Washington Post reports.
CNN: RFK Jr. decries testy Senate hearing as “theater.”
Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts
“Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it,” the New York Times reports.
“How much that matters can now be seen in Moldova, a small but strategic European nation that has since the end of the Cold War looked to Europe and the United States to extract itself from Moscow’s shadow.”
“The Trump administration has slashed diplomatic and financial support for the country’s fight against Russian influence, even as the Kremlin has conducted what researchers and European officials described as an intense campaign to sway that country’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for Sept. 28.”
Every Election Is a Change Election Now
CNN: “In the 100 years between 1900 and 2000, control of the House, Senate or White House changed hands in Washington with relative infrequency and never in more than two elections in a row.”
“In the 25 years since 2000, the party controlling the White House and/or at least one chamber of Congress changed in all but two US elections.”
“It is an unprecedented period of political turnover in which voters have pulled the lever for some kind of change – either picking a president from a new party or flipping the majority in the House or Senate – nearly every time they’re given the chance in recent years.”
‘Even Beer Is Getting More Expensive’
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow (D) put out a video showing how Donald Trump has made Sunday football more expensive.
Why Did Kamala Harris Lose?
Seth Masket polled Democratic Party county chairs in November 2024 and then again during the summer of 2025.
“What really stands out about this figure is that there was even less of a consensus about the causes of Harris’ loss in the summer of 2025 than there was right after election day in 2024. Most chairs had named economic conditions as their top narrative in November. This was still the top answer in July, but quite a few of those originally naming economic conditions had bled to blaming Biden’s unpopularity, candidate traits, or other causes.”
Trump Plans to Make Citizenship Test Harder
“The Trump administration is planning to make the test to become a U.S. citizen more difficult, possibly with an essay requirement that would help give officials wide discretion on which immigrants are approved,” Axios reports.
Quote of the Day
“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’ Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??”
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on X, tearing into Vance’s defense of the U.S. military’s strike on an alleged drug vessel leaving Venezuela.
Trump Tramples Congress’s Power
New York Times: “The Trump administration continues to erode the power of Congress, trampling on its constitutional prerogatives in ways large and small. Through it all, Republicans in charge have mostly shrugged — and in some cases, outright applauded — as their powers, once jealously guarded, diminish in ways that will be difficult to reverse.”
“In recent weeks, GOP leaders have looked on passively as the president has fired a litany of agency leaders whom senators worked for weeks to confirm, from the CDC to the Internal Revenue Service to the Federal Reserve.”
“And they have shown little appetite for challenging the administration, even as a few have expressed occasional displeasure about the consequences of their decisions earlier this year to swallow their reservations about some of his nominees and confirm them.”
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