“President Trump’s week started in triumph when he took out a pair of Republican adversaries up for re-election — but it’s ending in a rare moment of Republican resistance, largely of his own making,” Axios reports.

“Trump has spent the better part of a decade steamrolling congressional Republicans, but the costs of his revenge campaign — and some politically toxic priorities — have finally caught up with him.”

Stephen Collinson: Trump’s second term is increasingly about one thing: Trump.

Punchbowl News: “Usually after a calamitous day like today, lawmakers spend hours filling our ears and heads with anecdotes about how their leadership screwed up.”

“But after Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers home Thursday for the Memorial Day recess without passing the reconciliation bill, there is shocking unanimity about who is to blame.”

“President Donald Trump and his White House.”

“Republicans have tended to bite their tongue in the past when asked about Trump’s missteps. But not this time.”

“President Donald Trump said Thursday the price tag for his Reflecting Pool renovations in Washington, DC, will be ‘less than $20 million’ after he decided the exterior needed more work,” CNN reports. 

Said Trump: “I originally thought I’d do it for $2 or $3 million. Just do a base. But now we are fixing up the exterior of it so we will probably be in it for less than $20 million.”

A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Americans overwhelmingly reject the idea of spending taxpayer money on President Trump’s new White House ballroom.

Overall, 68% of adults said they opposed spending taxpayer money on security upgrades for the ballroom. A striking 57% oppose it strongly.

Just 21% of adults said they support it.