“The Trump administration is considering cutting federal education funds to California,” Politico reports.
“The discussion comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump feud over the president’s deployment of the National Guard to LA to stop immigration protests,” Politico reports.
Playbook: “Newsom, for his part, delivered a pretty extraordinary address to the nation last night, in which he sought to position himself as the leader of America’s anti-Trump opposition. Speaking directly to camera in a crisp, eight-minute monologue, Newsom denounced Trump’s aggressive deployment of ICE officers and military forces in LA — before raising his eyes to horizons far beyond his own state.”
Said Newsom: “This isn’t just about protests here in Los Angeles. This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.”
Ana Navarro to CNN: “I have been so thirsty for somebody that is not cowardly, bending the knee and selling out to Donald Trump as he does all of this to America.”
The Wall Street Journal describes Newsom as “the leader of the opposition.”
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states,” CNN reports.
Said Trump: “We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level. A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”
Punchbowl News: “Top administration officials are aggressively making the case to GOP senators that the massive Republican reconciliation bill is a political winner — and that they should be going on offense to sell it. It comes as Democrats hammer vulnerable Republicans over Medicaid cuts and other controversial provisions in the reconciliation package.”
“During a lunch meeting at the NRSC on Tuesday, Trump’s political team, led by White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, presented polling data to Senate Republicans showing that key elements of the bill are popular with the public.”
“The polling data centered on individual tax provisions that are major Trump priorities, including no taxes on tips and overtime pay, according to GOP senators and a White House official. Senate Republicans have indicated they want to impose limits on the latter due, in part, to the cost.”
“Immigration authorities raided an Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law,” Politico reports.
Said company president Chad Hartmann: “My biggest issue is: Why us? We do everything by the book.”
“The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system ‘is broken.'”
“The immigration crackdown may already be starting to show up in the job market,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Employment growth in industries that rely heavily on unauthorized workers has slowed. There has been a large decline in the foreign-born labor force since March. And recent immigrants appear more reluctant to take part in the Labor Department’s monthly survey of households.”
“Around 15,000 protesters filled a square in Hungary’s capital Tuesday in what organizers called the beginning of a resistance movement against the government of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,” the AP reports.
“Moscow’s chief negotiator in peace talks with Kyiv was a lead architect of the historical revisionism that drove Russia to invade Ukraine,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Now, Vladimir Medinsky is drawing on his view of history again as he tries to convince Ukraine that it would be better off unwinding its integration with the West and embracing Moscow’s terms for peace.”
“North Korea appears to have constructed a new building within its main nuclear complex, satellite imagery showed, in what could be an additional enrichment facility to ramp up the country’s ability to produce nuclear weapons,” Bloomberg reports,
“President Donald Trump has catapulted Gavin Newsom to the front of the Democratic resistance,” Politico reports.
“The California governor had faded from national prominence as public attention shifted to Washington and, in his home state, the deliberations over Kamala Harris’ political future. But as Trump and his allies make Newsom their foil in a brawl over immigration unrest in Los Angeles and the president’s unilateral deployment of the National Guard and Marines, they are also elevating his stature on the left.”
Said GOP strategist Mike Madrid, who opposes Trump: “I think this is helping Trump broadly. I also think it’ll help Gavin — especially if he gets arrested.”
Elon Musk said that he regrets some of his recent social media posts about President Donald Trump.
Said Musk: “They went too far.”
“President Trump announced on Tuesday that he will restore the original names of seven military bases honoring Confederate officers,” Axios reports.
“The move reverses a renaming that began under former President Biden, efforts that sought to honor military figures of color and to cease the government’s commemoration of pro-slavery figures.”
Axios: “ABC News said it won’t renew senior national correspondent Terry Moran’s contract. Moran was recently suspended after calling President Trump and top aide Stephen Miller ‘world-class’ haters.”
“Some GOP lawmakers are starting to warn the Trump administration to reconsider its all-in deportation push,” Axios reports.
“Republicans are convinced they have a clear mandate to kick out hardened criminals and gang members. But differences are emerging on how aggressively ICE should deport workers, longtime residents and some people who’ve sought refuge from brutal regimes.”
“Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was indicted on three counts related to an incident at an ICE detention center in Newark,” the Bergen Record reports.
Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said McIver is facing a three-count indictment for allegedly “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers,” and faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted.
“Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the nation at the precipice of authoritarianism,” the New York Times reports.
Said Newsom: “Democracy is under assault right before our eyes — the moment we’ve feared has arrived.”
Washington Post: “Newsom said the Trump administration is becoming an authoritarian regime and warned that while his state may have been first, ‘other states are next.’”
“Armed National Guard troops mobilized by President Trump accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers on raids in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a move that the state of California has called unlawful and inflammatory,” the New York Times reports.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.