“A group of House and Senate Democrats who attended Harvard are threatening their alma mater with a ‘rigorous’ investigation if the school cuts a deal to end hostilities with President Trump,” Axios reports.
Employers Pulled Back on Hiring
“Employers continued to create jobs but pulled back on hiring, a sign that more businesses are putting expansion plans on hold as they deal with economic uncertainty,” the New York Times reports.
“The economy added 73,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday, lower than economists’ expectations. The unemployment rate slightly rose to 4.2 percent, up from 4.1 percent the month before.”
Bloomberg: “Trump is back at it on Truth Social, again calling for, yes, you guessed it, a lower Fed rate.”
Biden Calls on Lawyers to Be ‘New Heroes’
“Former President Joe Biden called on attorneys to lead the fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration in a speech at a downtown Chicago hotel on Thursday in which he also reflected on his more than five-decade career in politics and beginnings as a young lawyer,” the Chicago Tribune reports.
Said Biden: “It’s not enough to honor the heroes who came before us. We need new heroes now.”
Trump Tariff Blitz Unleashes Delayed Shock to Economy
“Four months after Donald Trump shocked the world and roiled markets by unveiling a placard full of tariff rates at the White House Rose Garden, his revisions unveiled Thursday generated a more subdued response among investors,” Bloomberg reports.
“But at an average of 15%, the world is still facing some of the steepest U.S. tariffs since the 1930s, roughly six times higher than they were a year ago.”
CNBC: Trump unleashes sweeping new tariffs in a blow to global trade.
Reuters: Trump hits dozens more countries with steep tariffs.
Wyden Calls for Probe of Epstein’s Work for Leon Black
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) “broadened his attack on the Trump administration’s handling of records about the financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network, urging the Internal Revenue Service to investigate his tax and estate planning work for private equity titan Leon Black,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Wyden: “It is unthinkable that transactions amounting to tens of millions of dollars paid to a known criminal for the purpose of helping a mega-wealthy individual dodge billions in taxes were never audited or investigated. When Americans think the system is rigged, this is the kind of abuse they think about.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Perhaps it’s naive of me, someone who has seen a lot that most people haven’t seen but I believed that on some level, there are many, there should be many, who consider themselves to be guardians of our system and our democracy who just capitulated. And I didn’t, didn’t see that coming.”
— Kamala Harris, quoted by CNN.
Palantir Extends Its Reach Even Further Into Government
“President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer,” Wired reports.
“Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.”
Pentagon Schedules First Test of Golden Dome
“The Pentagon has scheduled its first major test of the multibillion-dollar Golden Dome missile defense system for just before the 2028 election, setting an aggressive deadline for military officials to prove they can turn President Donald Trump’s vision for a space-based shield that can protect the entire US into a reality,” CNN reports.
Trump’s Epstein Story Makes No Sense
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Ex-Biden Aide Says West Point Appointment Rescinded
Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Biden administration, said her appointment to a position at West Point was “unfortunately” rescinded, CBS News reports.
A Blunt Diagnosis for the Democrats
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) believes Democrats need to become more likable to recover from their record-low approval among voters, Politico reports.
Said McBride: “I think voters feel like Democrats have sort of been assholes to them.”
She added: “I do think that a voter asks two questions when they’re considering who to vote for. The first question is, does this candidate, does this party like me? And by extension, do they respect me?”
More: “If you can’t answer that first question to a voter’s satisfaction, they won’t even get to the second question, which is, what does this party think? What does this candidate think? And I think we lost that first question.”
Trump’s Options for Dousing the Epstein Fire
Ankush Khardori: “There are no good solutions — but some are worse than others.”
Quote of the Day
“Recently, I made the decision that, for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken. I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles and I think right now, they’re not as strong as they need to be.”
— Kamala Harris, talking to Stephen Colbert.
Jeffries Pledges to Support Texas Democrats
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) met with Texas lawmakers seeking to fight the planned Republican-led overhaul of the Texas congressional map, but declined Thursday to divulge behind-the-scenes strategy for blocking the move, the Austin American Statesman reports.
Said Jeffries: “We’re going to do everything possible to support the Texas legislators. All options should be on the table to protect the people of Texas. But Texas Democrats are going to be the ones to decide that.”
F-Bombs in the Senate
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Roy Cooper Jumps Out to Early Lead
A new Emerson College poll in North Carolina found Roy Cooper (D) leading Michael Whatley (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 41% with 12% undecided.
Netanyahu Has a Big Problem with Democrats
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war against Hamas in Gaza is driving an unprecedented number of Senate Democrats to support measures blocking weapons sales to the longtime U.S. ally,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Once backed by just a handful of progressives, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) months-long effort to block the transfer of certain offensive weapons to Israel now has the support of more than half the Senate Democratic Caucus. It’s also a position that’s more aligned with the Democratic base.”
Laura Loomer Runs ‘Tip Line’ to Purge the ‘Disloyal’
Politico: “More than a dozen high ranking officials across the administration have been forced to leave their jobs or had their nominations or promotions derailed in the first six months of Trump’s return to Washington. Nearly all of the ousters have come after individuals were targeted by outside allies who convinced the president that they weren’t sufficiently loyal. And in many of those cases, the axe came down after officials found themselves in the crosshairs of right-wing activist Laura Loomer.”
Said Loomer: “I’m happy to take people’s tips about disloyal appointees, disloyal staffers and Biden holdovers. And I guess you could say that my tip line has come to serve as a form of therapy for Trump administration officials who want to expose their colleagues who should not be in the positions that they’re in.”
“Loomer has emerged as a blunt enforcer of allegiance to Trump.”
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