“The Senate passed legislation on Monday night to end the nation’s longest government shutdown, after a critical splinter group of Democrats joined with Republicans and backed a spending package that omitted the chief concession their party had spent weeks demanding,” the New York Times reports.
Liberals Blame Schumer After Strategy Collapses
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) wasn’t one of the eight Democratic senators who voted with Republicans to back GOP legislation to end the government shutdown. He is still taking most of the blame,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Angry progressive voters and party activists have focused their fury on the 74-year-old Schumer in the aftermath of what they see as a collapse by Senate Democrats.”
Nothing Was Off-Limits for Trump During the Shutdown
“The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing — in part because President Trump has taken actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown,” the New York Times reports.
“Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration cut food stamps for millions of low-income Americans. It tried to fire thousands of government workers and withhold back pay from others, while freezing or canceling money for projects in Democratic-led states.”
“It remains to be seen whether there will be a political price to pay for Mr. Trump or his party, with polls showing that voters generally blamed Republicans more for the shutdown. But for now, the tactics appear to have worked, after a group of Democrats agreed to support a bill to end the shutdown and drop the concessions their party had demanded.”
Homeland Security Used Old Video
“The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a ‘battle for the soul of our nation’ and working ‘day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital,’” the Washington Post reports.
“There was one problem. Several of the clips had been recorded during unrelated operations months earlier, in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Florida.”
Trump Pardons Husband of Republican Congressional Ally
President Trump quietly pardoned the husband of Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) last week amid a string of clemency grants to allies, the New York Times reports.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Toss E. Jean Carroll Judgment
President Trump asked the Supreme Court to reverse a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in a civil lawsuit by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, Bloomberg reports.
Serial Felon Freed by Trump Back Behind Bars
“Despite being gifted a Get Out of Jail Free card courtesy of President Donald Trump, convicted felon Jonathan Braun can’t seem to stop breaking the law,” the Daily Beast reports.
“Braun, a convicted drug trafficker and loan shark from New York, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Monday after being found guilty of a litany of crimes, including physical and sexual assault.”
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Faces Sexual Assault Charges
“A U.S. Capitol riot defendant who was accused of firing a gun into the air while among the mob on Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021, now faces charges of sexual assault and kidnapping in Utah,” CBS News reports.
GOP Lawmaker Faces Heated Crowd at Town Hall
“Before heading back to Washington, D.C., to vote on a measure to end the government shutdown, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faced a fiery crowd Monday at a town hall in Keosauqua,” the Iowa Capital Dispatch reports.
“Members of the audience yelled as the Republican representative spoke about her support of Medicaid changes made in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ and President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.”
Jeffries May Force Vote on Obamacare Subsidies
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters Monday that he is considering filing a discharge petition to force a vote on extending the Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits, Punchbowl News reports.
House Democrats Whip Against Shutdown Deal
House Democratic leaders are whipping against the bipartisan Senate bill to reopen the government, Punchbowl News reports.
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) wrote in an email: “HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE URGED TO VOTE NO.”
The Hill: Liberal fury over shutdown deal convulses Democrats.
House Returns to Many Controversies
“The House is set to return to work Wednesday after a staggering 54 days out of session. Ending the record government shutdown will be the least of Speaker Mike Johnson’s problems,” Politico reports.
“Tensions have been running high for weeks over Johnson’s decision to shut down the House for the duration of the shutdown, sparking intense criticism from Democrats and private alarm inside pockets of the House GOP.”
“With members now returning to Washington after spending nearly two months dispersed across the country, he is faced with jump-starting dormant committee work, tackling a looming health care deadline and resolving long-brewing internal conflicts over the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and congressional stock-trading — if he can reopen the government first.”
Trump Signals He’ll Support Shutdown Deal
“President Trump on Monday signaled his support for a Senate agreement to end the government shutdown and said he would abide by the deal, which includes a reversal of mass layoffs,” The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “It depends what deal we’re talking about. But if it’s the deal I heard about… I would say so.”
He added: “I think based on everything I’m hearing they haven’t changed anything, and we have support from enough Democrats, and we’re going to be opening up our country. It’s too bad it was closed, but we’re going to be opening up our country very quickly.”
Quote of the Day
“I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), quoted by Semafor.
All of Trump’s Tacky and Trollish White House Renovations
New York Magazine has compiled a running list of President Trump’s most outrageous and ridiculous White House renovations.
Cheryl Hines Says Democrats Have Been ‘Mean’ to Her
“Cheryl Hines said Democrats have been giving her a hard time ever since her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began his rise in politics, though the GOP has always been nice,” The Wrap reports.
Said Hines: “The Republicans have been very kind to me, from the beginning.”
Trump Wants Supreme Court to Intervene in SNAP Fight
“The Trump administration on Monday said it still wants the Supreme Court to block lower-court decisions requiring it to pay full food assistance benefits to about 42 million Americans who rely on the nation’s largest anti-hunger program,” the Washington Post reports.
Chief Justice Faces Career-Defining Decision on Trump
“Chief Justice John Roberts faces a defining challenge as he enters his third decade leading the Supreme Court: how far to let Donald Trump’s presidency rewrite the bounds of executive power,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Over Trump’s first year back in office, the court has given the president wide latitude to implement his policies, through some two dozen emergency orders that paused the effect of lower-court rulings against the administration. But it hadn’t fully reviewed any of Trump’s actions until last Wednesday’s hearing on Trump’s global tariffs, where the dynamics shifted: Most justices suggested the president acted beyond his legal authority.”
“If those sentiments find their way into a ruling, it would be the court’s first real blow to Trump in more than five years. Now it is up to Roberts to cobble together a decision on a policy that Trump has portrayed as essential to the nation.”
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