President Trump said he does not know the contractor that is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it, The Hill reports.
Inside the Democratic Battle Plan for Redistricting
CNN: “Jeffries and his allies have designed plans for the next two years to push Democratic-held states to set aside nonpartisan redistricting rules or gerrymander even more aggressively, with an eye toward producing a dozen or more new Democratic-held seats by November 2028, people familiar with the matter said. They’re eying seats from Oregon to New York in an effort that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars more in the next two years.”
“And they’re willing to put an uncomfortable spotlight on members of their own party to do it.”
Said Jeffries: “The days of Democrats unilaterally disarming are over, particularly given how high the stakes are.”
“Behind the scenes, the House minority leader’s allies are preparing a messaging push against any Democrats who stand in the way of gerrymandering, insisting that only ‘real Democrats’ are willing to fight.”
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A Window Into the President’s Mind
“Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“After the sun went down, another familiar ritual began: late-night social-media posting. The president’s Truth Social account posted 55 messages between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m.”
GOP Lawmaker Denies Inappropriate Relationships
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) denied having any inappropriate relationship with staff and said an investigation by the House Ethics Committee will eventually clear him of any wrongdoing, CNN reports.
Brad Raffensperger Gets Credible Death Threat
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) received “a four-page ‘manifesto’ threatening the Republican’s life a day before authorities were alerted to a suspicious object that disrupted a Macon event for his bid for governor,” the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports.
Missouri’s New Map Approved
“The Missouri Supreme Court enacted the state’s Republican-drawn gerrymander on Tuesday, allowing it to likely take effect for the midterms by handing the GOP victories on two major redistricting cases,” Politico reports.
“The court ruled that the state’s new map — which Republicans in the Legislature drew to break up a Kansas City-area Democratic seat and shift the delegation from 6-2 Republican to a 7-1 advantage — did not violate the state constitution’s redistricting clause. The court also ruled against Democrats in the state who filed a petition seeking to force a referendum on the map, declaring the filing of the petition does not automatically suspend the new map.”
An Overwhelming Rebuke of Trump’s ICE Policies
Politico: “Ten thousand losses. That’s the Trump administration’s track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.”
“More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.”
How the White House Views the Midterms
Playbook: “The mood within the camp has been transformed by an extraordinary two weeks in which high-stakes showdowns over redistricting landed decisively in Republicans’ favor — potentially handing them up to 12 Democratic House districts this fall. Blair, the architect of a strategy that just a few weeks ago seemed to be teetering on the brink of failure, is lapping it all up…”
“Blair hints that Republican donor concerns about Trump’s unspent millions are groundless, vowing GOP candidates won’t be outspent. And he spies opportunity in his opponents’ tribulations, enjoying the fratricidal warfare consuming Dems in several hard-fought primaries, including last night in Nebraska. He believes Democrats will repeat the ‘woke, weak and way too liberal,’ mistakes of 2024, and that his strategy will be ‘attack, attack, attack.’”
“But Democrats will see openings. There’s no acknowledgement of the infighting that’s beset Republicans in Texas, and may yet open the door for rising Democratic star James Talarico. There’s no acknowledgement of Trump’s abysmal polling. And there’s no attempt to confront the political catastrophe that is Trump’s war in Iran — a conflict that’s sent prices soaring with no end in sight.”
Is Trump Losing His Sway on Capitol Hill?
Punchbowl News: “On issue after issue, both in Washington and in state capitals around the country, Republicans are giving Trump the stiff arm. They’re ignoring his policy demands and overlooking his diatribes, even as they continue pledging allegiance to Trump politically.”
Trump’s Five-Alarm Economy
“President Trump flew to Beijing on Tuesday under some of the darkest economic clouds of his political career, leaving behind a country reeling from the cost of everyday life,” Axios reports.
“The bottom is falling out on Trump’s economic credibility — the central promise of his return to power. The inflation crisis that doomed his predecessor suggests he may not recover.”
Primary Winner to Drop Out to Support Independent
“A Democratic challenger who said she intends to drop out of November’s race for the US Senate in Nebraska to clear the way for an independent candidate has won the state’s Democratic primary,” The Guardian reports.
“Cindy Burbank ran against William Forbes, who Democrats contended was a Republican plant in the race, with the intent to drop out if she won. Forbes, a pastor who has voted for Trump and opposed abortion access, is currently registered as a Democrat.”
CNN: Democrats pin their hopes on an Independent to flip a GOP Senate seat.
Big Majority Oppose New Data Centers
“Public opposition to data centers is hardening as overwhelming majorities of Americans now oppose construction of the facilities in their communities,” according to a newly released Gallup survey.
Ballroom and Gas Tax Fights Highlight GOP’s Problem
“Americans are furious about the rising cost of living, and a series of internal battles on Capitol Hill this week is laying bare why Republicans are struggling to do anything about it,” Politico reports.
“House and Senate Republicans are facing divisions over a gas-tax holiday being demanded by President Donald Trump, not to mention housing and energy permitting bills that have stalled for months.”
Trump’s Shrinking Ambitions on China
“When President Trump campaigned in 2024, he promised a trade agenda that would hit China harder than any other economic partner, expanding on actions he had taken in his first term,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Trump talked about imposing a tariff of 60 percent or more on the country, and proposed stripping China of the preferential trade relations given to it when it joined the World Trade Organization. The rest of the world would be subject to tariffs too, but they would be much lower, at 10 or 20 percent.”
“More than a year into Mr. Trump’s first term, the picture looks dramatically different. Though U.S. tariffs on China are higher overall when the tariffs from Mr. Trump’s first term are added in, other countries have faced punitive levies that were nearly as high, and higher for some products.”
Washington Post: Trump arrives in China with lowered ambitions, hoping for deals.
White House Links Christianity to Nation’s Founding
“The Trump administration is hosting an all-day prayer festival on the National Mall on Sunday that organizers say will reflect the country’s Christian origins and, they hope, spark ‘a movement of renewal’ in America,” the Washington Post reports.
Wall Street Gets More Anxious About Long-Term Inflation
Wall Street Journal: “Investors bet on inflation by buying and selling both ordinary U.S. Treasurys and those that hedge the risk of inflation, called Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS. The gap between the yields of the two types of bonds—known as the break-even rate—recently hit its highest level since October 2022, according to Federal Reserve data, suggesting that investors expect annual inflation to average around 2.7% over the next five years.”
Thomas Massie’s Ex Accuses Him of Hush Money Offer
“A former girlfriend of Rep. Thomas Massie accused him this week of offering her $5,000 to drop a wrongful termination complaint against his close ally, Rep. Victoria Spartz,” Axios reports.
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