“U.S. private sector hiring rose less than expected in August, offering the latest indication of trouble in the labor market,” CNBC reports.
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The Space Warfare President
“Donald Trump added a branch to the U.S. military in his first term and kick-started a $175 billion missile defense initiative in his second with the same impetus in mind: Future wars will be waged from space,” Axios reports.
“The U.S. is poised to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into a zone of warfare few Americans understand, but that the world’s biggest powers are racing to dominate.”
‘Make McCarthy Great Again’
Michael Scherer: “Laura Loomer has become the Joseph McCarthy of the Trump era.”
Americans Overwhelmingly Back Vaccines
A new CBS News poll finds 74% of Americans think the federal government should make vaccines more available, while only 4% say they should be made less available.
Welcome to the Vaccine Free-for-All
Hanna Rosin: “This fall, when vaccine season comes around, everything might seem like business as usual. Vaccine schedules for kids are more or less intact, and the new flu and Covid vaccines are both scheduled to be released in time for the expected winter surge.”
“The Trump administration hasn’t had much of a visible effect on vaccines as the shots currently exist. What’s being systematically dismantled is the infrastructure that creates, tracks, and facilitates the distribution of vaccines as we’ve come to know and rely on them.”
Eric Adams Denies Rumors He Could Take Job with Trump
Eric Adams is denying rumors he would abandon his reelection campaign for mayor of New York City if offered a job with the Trump administration, CNN reports.
Job Openings Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly a Year
“U.S. job openings fell in July to the lowest in 10 months, adding to other data that show a gradually diminishing appetite for workers amid heightened policy uncertainty,” Bloomberg reports.
Cassidy’s Political Survival May Depend on Trump’s Silence
“Bill Cassidy’s political career was on life support not so long ago. Now Senate Republicans are waiting to see if President Donald Trump will let him make a miraculous recovery,” Politico reports.
“The potential U-turn comes after the two-term Louisiana Republican was written off by much of his party’s MAGA base when he voted in 2021 to convict Trump over his alleged role in fomenting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. But since January, Cassidy has stuck closely behind Trump, touting his support for the president’s nominees and brushing off questions about his relationship with the White House.”
The GOP’s Obamacare Mess
Vulnerable House Republicans are worried that Obamacare subsidies set to expire in December may dent their midterm chances and are introducing a bill, together with moderate Democrats, that would extend the tax credits for a year, Punchbowl News reports.
But at this point, Republican party leaders seem less than eager about extending these subsidies.
Quote of the Day
“I’ll say it, it’s rigged in favor of me and my children. And so I used to spend a lot of time unrigging, trying to unrig it. My attitude now is, ‘No, I want to keep it rigged. I’m just going to rig it for you against the powerful interests. It’s going to stay rigged, but we’re going to rig it on behalf of the working class, the middle class of America that struggle every day against great odds and great headwinds.’”
— Rahm Emanuel, in an interview with the Washington Examiner.
GOP Lurches Towards Shutdown
“Democrats are taking a much tougher stance on the looming deadline to keep the government open than they did earlier this year, warning there will be a shutdown if Republicans attempt to jam them with another partisan stopgap funding measure from the House,” The Hill reports.
“Spurred on by disgruntled progressives who want to see them fight, Democrats are breathing fire after President Trump thumbed his nose at Congress last week by proposing a pocket rescission, which would allow his White House budget director to rescind $5 billion in previously appropriated funding without any input from Capitol Hill.”
Trump’s Vow to Cut Electricity Prices Falls Flat
“On the campaign trail last summer, President Donald Trump promised to swiftly cut electricity and energy prices in half if voters returned him to the White House,” CNN reports.
Said Trump: “We intend to slash prices by half within 12 months, maximum of 18 months. You will never have had energy so low as you will under a certain gentleman known as Donald J. Trump.”
“Although gasoline prices have been low during the first year of Trump’s second term, electricity costs are rising uncomfortably fast for a variety of factors, including the insatiable power needs of massive data centers that serve as the backbone of the artificial intelligence boom.”
“As of the end of July, electricity prices had surged 5.5% over the prior 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s just over twice the pace of overall inflation, which remains elevated despite Trump’s promises to make prices tumble.”
Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court
Ankush Khardori: “Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to salvage his beloved, beleaguered tariff policy, heading to the Supreme Court in hopes that the Republican appointees will come to his rescue. The desperation is both palpable and warranted given the conspicuous weakness of the administration’s legal arguments, as underscored by a series of lower court rulings against him. That has in turn led the president and his aides to make increasingly histrionic public claims about what will happen if the Supreme Court does not cave and side with Trump.”
“Call it The Chicken Little Defense: If the courts do not sign off on the administration’s tariffs, it ‘would be a total disaster for the Country’ and ‘would literally destroy the United States of America,’ Trump said on Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the bulk of the president’s tariffs are illegal. He doubled down on those claims on Tuesday while tacking on the transparently ridiculous assertion that the U.S. is ‘taking in $17 trillion … because of tariffs.’”
Trump’s Drug War Looks Like a Real War
“More missiles. Fewer arrests. President Trump’s war on drugs is officially a war, not a mere law enforcement action,” Axios reports.
“The U.S. has entered a new era in which narcotraffickers are classified as terrorists — and Trump is claiming the right to kill them before they or their drugs reach this country.”
Kennedy Faces Senate Grilling
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s most prominent vaccine skeptic, courted the votes of senators considering whether to confirm him as health secretary by promising, repeatedly and in writing, to do nothing ‘that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines,’” the New York Times reports.
“Seven months have passed since he took office. In that time, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts who make vaccine recommendations to the government; taken steps that will effectively restrict access to Covid-19 vaccines; canceled $500 million of grants and contracts for the development of mRNA vaccines; and, just last week, forced out the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because she disagreed with him on vaccine policy.”
“On Thursday, Mr. Kennedy will come before the Senate again with his department in turmoil.”
China May Have Stolen Data From Every American
“China has hacked into American power grids and companies for decades, stealing sensitive files and intellectual property such as chip designs as it seeks to gain an edge over the United States,” the New York Times reports.
“But a sweeping cyberattack by a group known as Salt Typhoon is China’s most ambitious yet, experts and officials have concluded after a year of investigating it. It targeted more than 80 countries and may have stolen information from nearly every American.”
Massie Says He’ll Read Names from Epstein List
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) warned that Jeffrey Epstein survivors could be sued for “naming names” if they compiled their own list of his clients.
Instead, Massie said he and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are “willing to name names in the House of Representatives under Constitutional ‘speech or debate’ immunity.”
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