“Longtime Washington congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton garnered her most serious political challenge in 35 years Thursday when Robert White, a third-term D.C. Council member and former aide to Norton, announced he would challenge her in next year’s Democratic primary,” Politico reports.
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Pentagon Mulls Recruiting Campaign Around Charlie Kirk
“Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military,” NBC News reports.
“The idea would be to frame the recruiting campaign as a national call to service… Possible slogans that Pentagon leaders have discussed include ‘Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.”
House GOP Leaders May Jam Senate After Funding Vote
“House Republican leaders are discussing a plan to pass a seven-week stopgap funding measure Friday then not bring the House back into session until after the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline,” Politico reports.
“No final decision has been made on House scheduling, the people said, but the move would allow the House to ‘jam’ the Senate, giving it no alternative to avoid a shutdown than to pass the GOP-written measure.”
Mike Johnson to Attend Charlie Kirk’s Funeral
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will attend conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s funeral on Sunday, Axios reports.
Trump Wields Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel
“President Trump received thunderous applause during his second inaugural address in January when he vowed to ‘immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America,'” the New York Times reports.
“It was in keeping with the popular free-speech refrain of his long march out of the political wilderness and his first-term broadsides against ‘cancel culture,’ which he had called ‘the very definition of totalitarianism.’ His message had particular resonance with his supporters. After all, major social media companies banished him and others from their services in the days and weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots.”
“Yet he is now conducting the most punishing government crackdown against major American media institutions in modern times, using what seems like every tool at his disposal to eradicate reporting and commentary with which he disagrees.”
A Government of All the Podcasters
Helen Lewis: “The right-wing podcast-industrial complex is establishing new norms and taboos—and expanding the White House’s power.”
Labor Department Rehires Staff Who Took Offer to Quit
“Staffers who opted into the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, voluntarily taking paid administrative leave with the expectation of leaving their jobs, are returning to the U.S. Labor Department,” Bloomberg Law reports.
These employees “have returned as full-time workers, after collecting their full pay and benefits for months without performing their job duties.”
Public Confidence in U.S. Health Agencies Slides
A new Annenberg poll finds public confidence in the trustworthiness of U.S. health and science agencies has dropped across the board since the inauguration of President Trump, driven by sharp declines among Democrats.
Most Americans lack confidence that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is providing the public with trustworthy information on matters concerning public health. Just 39% have confidence RFK Jr. is providing trustworthy public health information.
The Game Changer
Here’s a must-read: The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight by Jon Ralston.
“How did the son of a laundress for local brothels end up one of America’s most powerful politicians and the Senate’s most bare-knuckled Democrat?”
The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight
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Obama Calls Pulling Kimmel’s Show ‘Government Coercion’
Former President Barack Obama slammed ABC for pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the airwaves.
Said Obama: “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”
He added: “This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.”
Justices Will Hear Trump Tariff Case on November 5
“The Supreme Court said on Thursday that it will hear arguments in a critical case that challenges much of President Trump’s trade agenda on Nov. 5,” Axios reports.
“The high court will determine whether the White House can unilaterally impose tariffs on a significant share of foreign goods, the linchpin of the president’s economic agenda.”
Trump Asks Justices to Allow Firing of Fed Governor
“The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow the president to remove Lisa Cook as a Federal Reserve governor, setting up a key test of presidential power with potentially huge economic consequences,” the New York Times reports.
Trump Signals Crackdown on Democratic Fundraising
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Death Threats Against Mamdani Lead to Arrest
“A Texas man has been arrested and charged with making anti-Muslim death threats against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor and the front-runner in recent polls,” Bloomberg reports.
Trump Denies Knowing Ousted U.K. Ambassador
“President Donald Trump said he doesn’t know the U.K. ambassador to Washington who was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week over his relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, despite meeting him in the Oval Office four months ago,” Bloomberg reports.
Another Trump Power Grab
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Democrats and Republicans Dig In as Shutdown Looms
Punchbowl News: “The battle over government funding has turned into this: Each side claims they’re being completely reasonable while blaming their opponents for the looming showdown.”
“Yet with less than two weeks to go before the funding deadline, Republican and Democratic leaders are growing further apart rather than closer. Both sides seem content to stand pat, even if that leads to a government shutdown on Oct. 1 and a broader political crisis.”
“Let’s be clear: A shutdown with President Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans in charge of Congress could spiral into a prolonged political stalemate. Democrats are dug in on health care-related demands, and they won’t move unless Republicans negotiate. The Republican leadership is telling its rank-and-file that they won’t negotiate on a seven-week CR. Any deal will be that much harder to reach once a shutdown takes hold.”
The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “It will be very tempting to use the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races as predictors for next year’s midterms.”
“Sometimes these races do provide a preview of the following year, but there are enough instances where they do not that we would urge caution against overinterpreting the results.”
“One key factor is that the political situation could just be different in the midterm year than it is in the gubernatorial year, something we arguably saw as recently as 2021 and 2022, the most recent comparable cycle.”
“Another confounding factor is that New Jersey and Virginia are both more Democratic than the nation at the federal level, which was not consistently the case until recently.”
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