Today’s notice: What a day, yesterday. Democrats deal with the Iran deal. The curious case of one prominent Republican consulting firm. Now we’re throwing new pipes at the Reflecting Pool, cuz why not. We fully endorse the Congressional Art Competition. Plus: Researchers warn more government data is disappearing.
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What comes next after a day like yesterday? Hours after he muddied his party’s midterm message by blowing up his own housing bill and getting into a shouting match with a Republican senator at lunch, Donald Trump took the stage to officially kick off America’s 250th anniversary celebration, and made no mention of either. Touting his successes in his second term, housing was not one of them. Greeting the Cabinet officials and lawmakers in the crowd, Senate Majority Leader John Thune was also not one of them.
It will not be easy to put Wednesday behind him. The housing bill was a signature populist achievement for a White House that really needed one. One can imagine an alternate universe where Trump triumphantly signed a bill focused on American pocketbooks while establishment Democrats were trying to figure out how to talk around their deep divisions exposed by primary voters in New York City. But that was not Wednesday.
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One MAGA ally told Jasmine that yesterday was a “very ‘House of Cards’” morning. (Wait, we asked. Do you mean ‘Veep’? “I’d say ‘House of Cards’ because it was a move clearly intended to remind congressional Republicans, regardless of how much leverage they think they have, he does not GAF,” they replied.)