The White House is a dump. According to Golf Magazine, that’s how the president of the United States describes his new home when explaining his repeated visits to the Bedminster, NJ golf course (the WH denies this report). Taxpayers aren’t inclined to provide golden toilets to the candidate who claimed to be the voice of the working class. In healthcare, the struggle continues. After Trump’s threat to cut off subsidies, known as cost-sharing reduction payments, which reimburse insurers for cutting deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs for millions of low-income people, the GOP is maneuvering around the president toward bipartisan legislation to shore up insurance markets under the ACA. At the WH, CoS John Kelly still has his job and is reportedly setting some stern rules and protocols in the West Wing. One report claims that he andDefense Secretary James Mattis made a pact to never leave the country at the same time so someone could always be around to keep tabs on Trump. Speaking of keeping tabs, Special Investigator Robert Mueller has added to his team a former DOJ lawyerwho specialized in targeting illegal foreign bribery. On Tuesday, the Senate confirmedChristopher Wray as FBI Director. Oh, and did anybody watch CNN last night? Apparently, Trump’s WH worked with Fox News and a wealthy Republican donor to concoct a story about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Republican businessman Ed Butowsky, who hired a private investigator to look into Rich’s death, spoke with Chris Cuomo about it. It was pretty much an SNL sketch. Except -- there’s nothing funny about any of this. Here’s what we’ve got today:
- DOJ to investigate higher ed discrimination -- against whites!
- Congressman Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) leads congressional call to save DACA.
- Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) intros sweeping marijuana legislation.
- Former Congresswoman Donna Edwards pondering what’s next.
- Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) agree on most things. So why are the Bernie supporters shading the California senator?
- Word on the street is that Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) will be named House Democratic Representative to the United Nations. Stay tuned.
- Congressman Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) gets first serious Dem challenger.
- Omarosa’s infamous dossiers have resurfaced, and HBCU leaders have accepted her meeting requests.
- Meanwhile, Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA) fights to save the accreditation of the oldest HBCU in the U.S.
- AG Jeff Sessions calls Black law enforcement “crucial ambassadors” in the community.
- Facial recognition is being deployed to fight visa overstays.
- Accenture fills key inclusion and diversity position.
- Disabled Veterans of America makes history with first African American female commander.
- Court allows state AGs led by CA’s Xavier Becerra to defend key ACA subsidies.