At 10 p.m., the House Budget Committee is due to reconsider the massive taxation-and-spending package it rejected Friday.
Kamala Harris Deliberates Over Her Political Future
CNN: “The 21st of July looms for Kamala Harris and the much smaller world of advisers left around her. It’s the day she’s set to lose the US Secret Service protection that former vice presidents are granted for six months — six months from the inauguration that she believed would be her own after Joe Biden gave her 107 days to win the 2024 election when he ended his reelection bid last July 21.”
“By this date, multiple people close to her say they increasingly believe Harris will have finally ended the intrigue over her political future and be preparing for a 2026 California gubernatorial run. Though she hasn’t made up her mind yet, several of those people tell CNN they expect an official launch would likely come in August or soon after Labor Day.”
Trump Seeks a Direct Role in the Economy
Washington Post: “In the opening months of his second term, Trump has taken an unusually direct and high-profile role in attempting to manage the sprawling American economy — an approach that could bring him enormous benefits if it thrives or danger if it stumbles.”
“It’s a departure from decades of Republican orthodoxy and arguably from Trump’s own history; during the 2024 campaign, he called Democrat Kamala Harris a communist and a Marxist because her vow to tackle price gouging could have led to price controls.”
Is Every Top Democrat Running for President?
New York Times: “Before the shadow primary — the quiet frenzy of courting donors, aides and the news media that defines the earliest stages of a presidential race — comes a period of politics that is a bit louder and a whole lot sillier.”
“Call it the chatter primary.”
“And this year, the talk about the 2028 presidential race seems to be coming from nearly every direction in the Democratic Party.”
“The party’s next primary battle is widely expected to be highly competitive and very crowded. Political kibitzers have flung around at least 19 names, crafting an early list that includes governors, senators, House members, former Biden administration officials and even some business leaders.”
Quote of the Day
“We might very well lose the greatest country that this world has ever known. And it might be in part because of the decision that Biden and those around him made to run for re-election.”
— Beto O’Rourke, quoted by The Guardian.
Springsteen Keeps Up War of Words From Foreign Stage
“President Trump warned Bruce Springsteen to ‘keep his mouth shut’ until he gets back to the U.S. The rock icon is showing no signs of backing down, delivering a fiery performance from a stage in this city Saturday that reflected the stark political divide in America,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Springsteen echoed earlier criticism of the Trump administration Saturday, saying a ‘rogue’ government was rolling over U.S. lawmakers and institutions designed to keep authoritarianism in check.”
Said Springsteen: “Things are happening right now that are altering the very nature of our country’s democracy.
Bessent Warns Tariffs Will Snap Back
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday warned that the reciprocal tariffs on trading partners could go back to the rate slapped on them on “Liberation Day” last month if they don’t engage in good faith negotiations, The Hill reports.
Trump’s Coalition Is Starting to Fray
Wall Street Journal: “After broadening the Republican coalition, Trump is at risk of shrinking it. Trump came close to winning young voters—those under age 30—in 2024, a sharp reversal from his 25-point loss among young voters in 2020. He also made gains among Black, Hispanic and other minority groups, losing by a far smaller margin than in 2020. And he improved his showing among seniors.”
“Now that he is back in the White House, these groups have grown increasingly unhappy with his job performance.”
People Not Paying Attention May Help Trump’s Approval
“President Trump’s strategy to ‘flood the zone’ may be working to keep his approval rating from sinking even lower,” the New York Times reports.
“Voters who have not heard much about some of the many major news events from the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term have a higher opinion of the job he is doing, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. A little under half of the 42 percent of voters who approved of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president said they had not heard much about at least some of the ups and downs of his administration’s decisions.”
Lawmaker Prosecutions May Get Easier
“Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section,” the Washington Post reports.
“Under the proposal, investigators and prosecutors would also not be required to consult with the section’s attorneys during key steps of probes into public officials, altering a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted.”
“If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated.”
Hamas Wanted to Torpedo Israel-Saudi Deal
“Top leaders of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched their Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel aiming to torpedo peace negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to minutes of a high-level meeting in Gaza that Israel’s military said it discovered in a tunnel beneath the enclave,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Days before the assault that left nearly 1,200 dead, Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s Gaza chief, told fellow militants that an ‘extraordinary act’ was required to derail the normalization talks that he said risked marginalizing the Palestinian cause.”
“The plan worked—at a terrible price.”
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Trump Suggests the Clintons Murdered People
President Trump boosted a wild conspiracy theory that accuses the Clinton family of murdering seven people.
Tim Walz Calls Trump a ‘Tyrant’ Who Abuses Power
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) “criticized Donald Trump in a law school graduation speech Saturday, accusing the Republican president of creating a national emergency by repeatedly violating the rule of law,” CBS News reports.
Said Walz: “I have to be honest with you: You are graduating into a genuine emergency. Every single day, the president of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.”
He added: “This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it’s exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.”
Quote of the Day
“A lot of us have covered Joe Biden’s aging, and the accompanying inability to do things the way he used to, throughout his Presidency. But what we uncovered, after the election was over, when all the people that we had been talking to for months and years, and all of the people who had been saying, ‘He’s fine, he’s fine,’ were suddenly willing to talk about what had been going on. It was only after the election that we were able to get the insider point of view.”
— Jake Tapper, in an interview with the New Yorker.
Trump Is Pushing Thousands of Experts from Government
Washington Post: “Across the federal government, a push for early retirement and voluntary separation is fueling a voluntary exodus of experienced, knowledgeable staffers unlike anything in living memory… Other leaders with decades of service are being dismissed as the administration eliminates full offices or divisions at a time.”
Hearing Joe Biden in Hur Interview Is Revealing
“For much of his time in the White House, former President Joe Biden offered a quick rebuttal to those raising concerns about his age: ‘Watch me,’ he said,” the New York Times reports.
“Yet, in the end, it may be the sound of Mr. Biden’s own voice that proves what his aides worked furiously, and spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars, to try to keep the public from seeing with its own eyes.”
“The five-hour-and-10-minute audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with Mr. Biden on Oct. 8 and 9, 2023, shows a president struggling to recall dates and details, whose thoughts seem jumbled as he tries to recreate events that had occurred just a few years earlier.”
Axios: Biden’s reversal on classified document flustered his attorneys.
What Elon Musk Sees on Social Media
New York Times: “To better understand how the information that Mr. Musk consumes on X could shape his worldview, The New York Times recreated a version of Mr. Musk’s personal feed by opening a new account on X and following the same 1,109 users that he follows. We then analyzed more than 175,000 posts from the accounts that he follows, using a service that collects data from X…”
“The resulting feed, shown in this article as a selection of posts curated from the much larger set, revealed ample praise for Mr. Musk and his various priorities, mixed with a torrent of right-wing outrage over progressive politics. It highlights the ways that social networks can create information bubbles.”
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