President Trump warned Sunday of widespread layoffs if the federal government shuts down this week, telling NBC News that “we are going to cut a lot of the people that … we’re able to cut on a permanent basis.”
Said Trump: “I’d rather not do that.”
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There Will Never Be Another Eric Adams
New York Times: “In many ways, Mr. Adams’s choice to end his flailing re-election campaign was the most conventional thing he had done in some time. He was acceding, for once, to the laws of political gravity as he weighed how best to position himself for a post-mayoral future.”
“That set of options, like much of his last year, is already shadowed by the more brazen gambit he has long appeared to embrace amid federal corruption charges and the wholesale collapse of his inner circle: becoming a MAGA-amenable mayor of America’s signature big blue city and seeing where that might take him.”
Netanyahu to Meet Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to hold a crucial White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday amid assertions from Washington that an ambitious plan to end the war in Gaza is nearly complete, Bloomberg reports.
Trump Shares Wild Conspiracy Theory
President Trump posted a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News (it wasn’t) in which an A.I.-generated, deep-faked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that “every American will soon receive their own MedBed card” that will grant them access to new “MedBed hospitals,” Politico reports.
If you’re unfamiliar with the “MedBed” conspiracy theory, it’s a belief that there are certain hospital beds “loaded with futuristic technology” that can “reverse any disease, regenerate limbs, and de-age people.”
The video has since been deleted.
Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid
“Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he would abandon his foundering campaign for a second term, upending the race to lead the nation’s largest city just five weeks before Election Day,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Adams had publicly insisted that he would see his campaign through despite dismal poll numbers. But behind the scenes, he was exploring potential exit ramps to avoid an embarrassing finish, with his advisers at one point engaging in negotiations with President Trump’s about an ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia.”
“Those talks fell apart, and on Sunday, Mr. Adams called it quits in a nearly nine-minute video message posted to social media. He gave no indication that he had a specific job lined up after he leaves office.”
Trump Says Gaza Peace Deal Is Near
President Trump told Axios in an interview Sunday that negotiations over his plan to end the war in Gaza are “at their final stages” and contended a deal could open the way for wider peace in the Middle East.
Bill Maher’s Grand Bargain
Bill Maher: “Let’s make a deal… the left will quash all their loony woke shit, and the right will stop the slide into autocracy.”
Five Types of Independents
CNN: “Among independents, there is a subset that rejects party labels but aligns closely with one of the two major parties on many issues, which we’re calling Democratic Lookalikes and Republican Lookalikes. The poll also identifies two groups that remix the definition of a traditional swing voter — the Disappointed Middle and the Upbeat Outsiders. A fifth group — The Checked Out — is largely uninterested in politics.”
Trump Spewed Falsehoods About Public Health
“President Donald Trump’s Monday comments about autism and public health were filled with misinformation that left many doctors aghast – and not just about Tylenol,” CNN reports.
“Most of the media coverage of Trump’s press conference centered around his repeated advice to pregnant Americans to try to avoid taking Tylenol, which he based on a supposed link to autism that has not been proven. But the president also made a series of additional comments about autism, vaccines, and hepatitis B that ranged from unproven to misleading to false.”
Wes Moore Hesitates on Redistricting
“Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is under pressure to eliminate the state’s only Republican-held seat as President Donald Trump wages a national redistricting war ahead of next year’s pivotal midterms,” Politico reports
“So far, the rising star in the party and a potential White House hopeful hasn’t made a move — hesitation rooted in legal concerns and a unified front among Maryland Democrats. It’s a posture that contrasts him with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who became the first Democratic governor to throw himself into the remapping fight.”
The Rise of America’s Young Socialists
Wall Street Journal: “Zohran Mamdani, 33, shocked the world when he handily won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor running as a proud socialist. Mamdani’s victory has variously been attributed to his charisma, his adroit use of social media, his ability to bring South Asian residents into city politics and the warts of his leading opponents.”
“But it is also something else: the flowering of a movement that began to gestate nearly 20 years ago, when the misery of the financial crisis proved formative for a generation then just coming of age.”
Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump
“Having set the stage for a year of high-level engagement with the Trump administration, Xi Jinping is now chasing his ultimate prize, according to people familiar with the matter: a change in U.S. policy that Beijing hopes could isolate Taiwan,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“As President Trump has shown interest in striking an economic accord with China in the coming year, the people said, the Chinese leader is planning to press his American counterpart to formally state that the U.S. ‘opposes’ Taiwan’s independence.”
“Since coming to power in late 2012, Xi has made bringing Taiwan under Beijing’s control a key tenet of his ‘China Dream’ of national revival. Now, well into an unprecedented third term, he has repeatedly emphasized that ‘reunification’ is inevitable and can’t be stopped by outside forces—a reference to Washington’s political and military support to Taipei.”
Russia Hits Ukraine With Massive Overnight Attack
“Russia launched more than 600 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine on Saturday night and Sunday morning, one of the largest aerial attacks of the war, while the United Nations General Assembly remains in session,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump to Attend Meeting with Generals
“President Donald Trump has decided he’s going to the last-minute global gathering of the nation’s top generals in Quantico, Virginia, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last week,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump’s appearance not only upstages Hegseth’s plans, but adds new security concerns to the massive and nearly unprecedented military event.”
Full Force of Trump’s Job Cuts About to Hit
“The D.C. region is bracing for new economic pain next week as paychecks stop coming for thousands of federal workers who took the government’s offer of deferred resignation — and the threat of a shutdown could make it worse,” the Washington Post reports.
House Republicans Plan to Rewrite History
“A new House panel will re-investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack with an eye toward recasting the narrative about the events in Washington that day,” Politico reports.
“It’s the latest sign that the deadly riot remains a wound on Congress that might never fully heal amid ferocious partisan sparring. Retribution, not reconciliation, appears to be the prime motivation behind the new probe, with the Republicans behind it still bitter over the work of the panel’s previous iteration, which was largely led by Democrats and concluded President Donald Trump was singularly to blame for the violence inflicted by his supporters.”
Trump Would Favor Colleges That Align with His Policies
“The White House is developing a plan that could change how universities are awarded research grants, giving a competitive advantage to schools that pledge to adhere to the values and policies of the Trump administration on admissions, hiring and other matters,” the Washington Post reports.
“The new system, described by two White House officials, would represent a shift away from the unprecedented wave of investigations and punishments being delivered to individual schools and toward an effort to bring large swaths of colleges into compliance with Trump priorities all at once.”
Top Lawmakers Will Meet Trump at White House
“The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, as Washington works to avoid a looming government shutdown,” CNN reports.
NBC News: “The development comes after Trump abruptly canceled a planned meeting with Democratic leaders on Thursday, at the urging of Johnson and Thune. The president at the time called Democratic demands ‘unserious and ridiculous.’”
“Since then, Jeffries and Schumer have been trading very public barbs with Trump over the looming government shutdown and Democrats’ demands to attach health care policies to the temporary funding bill.”
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