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|  | DRIVING THE DAY | | TALKER: “How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat,” by The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell: “According to three people briefed on the internal investigation, [in 2024, Jeffrey] Goldberg had emailed the campaign about a story that criticized [Donald] Trump for his attitude towards wounded service members. To push back against the story, the campaign enlisted the help of [Mike] Waltz, their national security surrogate. “Goldberg’s email was forwarded to then-Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes, who then copied and pasted the content of the email — including the signature block with Goldberg’s phone number — into a text message that he sent to Waltz, so that he could be briefed on the forthcoming story. Waltz did not ultimately call Goldberg, the people said, but in an extraordinary twist, inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone — under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council.”
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At more than 1,300 locations throughout the U.S., anti-Trump demonstrators gathered in a show of both force and breadth. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo | THE RESISTANCE ARRIVES: The first mass protests of the Trump 2.0 era arrived yesterday, the capstone of a week in which opposition to the president seemed to roar to life after months of hibernation. At more than 1,300 locations throughout the U.S. — rural small towns and big cities, from Anchorage to Palm Beach — demonstrators gathered in a show of both force and breadth, wielding signs voicing their outrage over policies they alleged betrayed something fundamental about America. The president was a frequent object of their ire, of course. But so was Elon Musk. Homemade placards targeted tariffs and tyranny, deportations and DOGE. They defended vaccine science and abortion rights and Gaza and Ukraine. (“So many issues, so little cardboard,” as one sign in Milwaukee put it.) The crowds: Organizers said more than 600,000 people RSVPed for the events; CNN pegged the number of attendees in the “millions.” … 1,000 in Anchorage, per ADN. … 3,000 in Charlotte, per the Observer. … 5,000 in Raleigh, per CBS17. … 6,000 in Florida’s Palm Beach County, per the Palm Beach Post. … 7,000 in Des Moines, according to the Register. … At least 7,000 in Seattle, per the Seattle Times. … 10,000 in Denver, per the Colorado Sun. … 20,000 in Atlanta, per the AJC. … 25,000 at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, per the Star Tribune. … 25,000 in Boston, per GBH. … 30,000 in Chicago, per WBEZ. … In New York, the protest stretched along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for “nearly 20 blocks,” per the NYT. … In Washington, organizers estimated the crowd exceeded 100,000 — roughly five times larger than they’d predicted, per WaPo. The big picture: “Until this week, the 11th of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the resistance has not exactly been uppercase R,” as The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey put it. Consider this week: On Monday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) began his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, grinding the chamber to a halt and buoying Democrats’ spirits by showing that someone with power seemed to grasp the urgency that many grassroots Dems felt. … On Tuesday, Democrats overperformed in two special elections for ruby red House seats in Florida, and the Dem-backed Susan Crawford solidified liberals’ majority on Wisconsin’s state supreme court. … On Wednesday, Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day” while unveiling sweeping new tariffs on virtually every U.S. trading partner, which will likely cause prices of everyday products to shoot up in the weeks and months ahead. … On Thursday, stock markets began a tailspin, wiping out trillions of dollars in value and hitting many Americans’ retirement savings. JPMorgan upped the likelihood of a recession in 2025 to 60 percent. … On Friday, markets’ losses continued. … On Saturday, mass protests across America. Which brings us to today: Now, Democrats and others who oppose Trump feel a bit more optimistic about the outlook for resistance than a week ago at this time. The Jan. 21, 2017, Women’s March fomented the “Resistance” movement that propelled Democrats to a wave election in 2018. Could this week be the beginning of a similar turn of fortune for Dems?
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Learn more. | | | | THREE DIVIDES TO WATCH THIS WEEK: The reality of Trump’s new tariffs has only begun to sink in, and their political repercussions have scarcely begun to unfold. But the early reaction hints at a few divides we’re going to have our eyes on in the days ahead. 1. Trump’s advisers vs. Trump’s advisers: Musk isn’t being particularly discreet about his dislike of the new Trump tariffs (see: “Musk hopes US, EU get to ‘zero-tariff situation,’” by POLITICO’s Pieter Haeck) or his disapproval of at least one of the Trump aides who has most vocally advocated for them. Early yesterday, Musk took to X to respond to a video of Peter Navarro on CNN. POLITICO’s Gigi Ewing has the recap: “‘A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem,’ Musk wrote in one post. (Navarro earned a PhD in economics from Harvard in the 1980s.) The Department of Government Efficiency head replied to another user’s comment on the video lauding Navarro’s explanation, writing of the economist: ‘He ain’t built shit.’” Some people “inside the administration and close to Trump appeared confused, and surprised, about Musk’s decision to publicly go after Navarro (and by extension, indicate his displeasure with the president’s decision),” reports Semafor’s Shelby Talcott. “‘That’s a battle Elon won’t win,’ a person close to Trump warned. ‘Nobody is tired of Peter.’” 2. Hill Republicans vs. the administration: There are chiefly two factions among Hill Republicans worried about Trump’s tariffs: those who think they’re bad policy, and those who think they’re bad politics. (There is overlap.) In the former category, you can now count seven Senate Republicans who’ve signed on as cosponsors of the Trade Review Act, which would reassert Congress’ trade authority and let it weigh in on new tariffs. Those seven: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Todd Young (R-Indiana), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Will their ranks grow this week, especially if the markets continue to nosedive? 3. Rust Belt Democrats vs. Twitter Democrats: On Friday, House Democrats tweeted out a fairly run-of-the-mill speech from Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) in which the western Pennsylvanian “explains how Trump’s trade policy has been a chaotic mess, but that tariffs — if done right and paired with strong pro-worker and industrial policies — can help supercharge manufacturing.” Cue the ratio. “We don’t need to Both Sides an issue that is plunging us into a recession,” tweeted liberal commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, in one fairly representative response. “Democrats should pay attention to this ratio,” added YIMBY Dems cofounder Armand Domalewski. “Our voters HATE tariffs and don’t want to hear this mealy mouthed bullshit.” And so on. Tempest in a teapot? Sure. “The amount of discourse around this tweet is simply not proportionate with the number of marginal voters who will ever actually see it,” Business Insider’s Bryan Metzger wisely observed. But it also hints at a genuine policy split between many Democrats in, for instance, the industrial Midwest and those who physically reside on the coasts but spiritually live on Twitter. Tariffs may be genuinely unpopular writ large — and the politics of the issue are almost certain to shift as higher prices take hold — but they’re more complicated in places like, say, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where many voters support tariffs in some form even if they disagree with these particular tariffs or the way they were implemented. Related reads: “Wall Street Gets Rude Shock as Bessent Plays Second Fiddle on Tariffs,” by Bloomberg’s Saleha Mohsin, Dawn Lim and Katherine Burton … “Why Trump May Get Away With His Tariff Trauma,” by POLITICO’s Nahal Toosi
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| | | | SUNDAY BEST … — National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on what happens next with tariffs, on ABC’s “This Week”: “I got a report from the USTR last night that more than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation … There might be some increase in prices, but the fact is that if there were going to be a heavy burden on the U.S. consumer, that this trade deficit that for 30 years we’ve seen — really since China entered the WTO — would be something that would have gone down.” — Hassett on why Russia was exempted: “There’s obviously an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine, and I think the president made the decision not to conflate the two issues. … That’s not appropriate to throw a new thing into these negotiations right in the middle of it.” — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the market crash, on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “You never know what the reaction is going to be. … What I’ve been very impressed with is the market infrastructure — that we had record volume on Friday. And everything is working very smoothly so the American people, they can take great comfort in that. … Americans who want to retire right now, Americans who have put away for years in their savings accounts — I think they don’t look at the day-to-day fluctuations of what’s happening.” — Bessent on whether these tariffs are a negotiating tactic: “That’s going to be a decision for President Trump. But I can tell you that as only he can do at this moment, he has created maximum leverage for himself. … It’s not the kind of thing you can negotiate away in days or weeks. … We’re going to have to see what the countries offer and whether it’s believable.” Kristen Welker: “He’s open to it, is what I hear you say.” Bessent: “No. No, no, no. I think that we are going to have to see the path forward.” — Larry Summers on the tariffs, on “This Week”: “This is the biggest self-inflicted wound we’ve put on our economy in history. … Until we have a reversal, I think we’re going to have a real problem.” — Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on the tariffs, on “Fox News Sunday”: “This isn’t a trade war. This is balancing our economy with countries that have taken advantage of us. There’s countries for decades that have gotten rich over the backs of the workers here in America.” TOP-EDS: A roundup of the week’s must-read opinion pieces.
| | | | Policy moves fast—stay ahead with POLITICO’s Policy Intelligence Assistant. Effortlessly search POLITICO's archive of 1M+ news articles, analysis documents, and legislative text. Track legislation, showcase your impact, and generate custom reports in seconds. Designed for POLITICO Pro subscribers, this tool helps you make faster, smarter decisions. Start exploring now. | | | | | 9 THINGS FOR YOUR RADAR 1. RECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES: The Senate GOP’s newly adopted budget resolution went over like a lead balloon with House fiscal hawks yesterday, leaving an uncertain path forward for congressional Republicans’ centerpiece legislation, POLITICO’s Benjamin Guggenheim reports. Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas), Andy Harris (R-Md.) and Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) have said they can’t vote for its relative paucity of spending cuts, while House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) also sent negative signals. But Speaker Mike Johnson said the House must approve the blueprint to unlock the reconciliation bill. Now the question is whether Trump can get recalcitrant representatives in line. One to watch: Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and some House Republicans are pushing to include a Child Tax Credit expansion in the bill, POLITICO’s Brian Faler reports. That could undercut Democrats, who have typically championed the credit, and bolster the GOP’s working-class appeal in legislation that would primarily benefit the wealthy. 2. HEADING FOR NOVEMBER: “Virginia’s 2025 governor’s race set: Earle-Sears vs. Spanberger,” by the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Anna Bryson: “In November, Virginians will elect the state’s first female governor. The Republican Party of Virginia announced Saturday afternoon that [Lt. Gov. Winsome] Earle-Sears is the GOP nominee and that there will be no Republican primary for governor. … The two other Republicans who filed to run for governor, former Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, and former Del. Dave LaRock, R-Loudoun, did not amass enough verified signatures.” 3. IMMIGRATION FILES: DHS is massively expanding the number of possible undocumented immigrants it wants to find by getting into confidential IRS data, now targeting as many as 7 million people in a “dramatic escalation,” WaPo’s Jacob Bogage reports. “IRS officials were aghast” by the request Thursday, and the agencies haven’t yet agreed on a plan. In the courts: The Justice Department appealed a federal judge’s ruling that it must find and return a mistakenly deported man by Monday, telling the appellate court that Paula Xinis had overstepped her authority, per the AP. But overnight, Xinis rejected the administration’s request to back off, per POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney and Hassan Ali Kanu. And Deputy AG Todd Blanche suspended Erez Reuveni, the senior immigration lawyer who had acknowledged that the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was wrong, NYT’s Glenn Thrush scooped. Up next: This week’s major focus will be whether judge James Boasberg finds Trump administration officials in contempt for defying his block on Alien Enemies Act deportations. WaPo’s Ann Marimow and Spencer Hsu note that the veteran jurist is friends with Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 4. FOR YOUR RADAR: “US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens,” by Reuters’ Michael Martina: “South Sudan had failed to respect the principle that every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country, including the U.S., seeks to remove them, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.”
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| | | | 5. IN THE DOGE HOUSE: The Department of Government Efficiency is expected to drive major cuts at DHS this week, CNN’s Betsy Klein, Jamie Gangel and Josh Campbell report. That could include significant layoffs across the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection, ICE and especially FEMA. And DOGE has now shown up at the Peace Corps, NBC’s Tara Prindiville and Nnamdi Egwuonwu report. The domestic fallout: Hundreds of CDC workers who worked on lifesaving programs from drownings to school shootings were laid off, per WaPo’s Lena Sun. … FEMA funding to states for both pre- and post-disaster response is in jeopardy, per WaPo’s Anna Phillips, Jake Spring, Kevin Crowe and Dan Diamond. … Federal cuts have put repairs to the Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail on ice, per AP’s Julie Watson. … HUD cuts may dampen enforcement against housing discrimination, per WaPo’s Rachel Siegel. … Social Security offices are straining under cuts and long lines, per WSJ’s Ken Thomas. … NIH cuts have thrown biotech startups into turbulence, per WaPo’s Daniel Gilbert. The big picture: Cuts across health and safety agencies “are hollowing out longtime federal offices, shedding expertise, and appear to go against Trump’s repeated campaign promises to make Americans healthier and safer,” WaPo’s Dan Diamond and Hannah Natanson report. The global fallout: The decimation of USAID has led to “increased suffering and increased death” in the Myanmar earthquake response, one Oxfam adviser tells AP’s Ellen Knickmeyer and David Rising. … The foreign aid freeze has upended PEPFAR, crushing some public health efforts to fight HIV with potentially “catastrophic” long-term effects, WaPo’s Katharine Houreld finds in Nairobi. … Foreign journalists funded by the U.S. Agency for Global Media worry they’ll be sent back to authoritarian governments that will target them, per AP’s Didi Tang. 6. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: “Washington worries Trump could bail out Zuckerberg,” by POLITICO’s Brendan Bordelon: “Less than two weeks before the start of a landmark antitrust trial against tech giant Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stoking fears in Washington that the White House could pull the plug on the whole case. … The FTC rarely abandons an ongoing antitrust case, regardless of who’s in the White House. But a series of events over the past week has the Washington antitrust world buzzing about the fate of the case.” 7. STOCK AND TRADE: “He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely,” by NYT’s Annie Karni: Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) “has not introduced or co-sponsored such a bill. Over that time, he has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class … Hannah Pope, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bresnahan said that he had yet to co-sponsor legislation on the topic because he had decided instead to introduce his own bill, which is still in the works. Ms. Pope said that Mr. Bresnahan relies on a financial adviser to trade stocks for him.” 8. DOUG EMHOFF SPEAKS OUT: The former second gentleman decried Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s decision to capitulate to the White House, saying he had urged his firm to fight a looming executive order in court rather than strike a deal, CNN’s Jake Tapper reports. He told the crowd at a gala dinner Thursday that he’d been overruled. 9. PRIMARY COLORS: Senate GOP leaders are urging Trump privately to endorse Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) as they grow increasingly worried about potential primary challenges from AG Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas), CNN’s Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris report. The party’s biggest concern is “that a Texas Senate GOP primary could end up costing their party at least $100 million, siphoning money from other critical battlegrounds” and potentially even giving Democrats an opening in the state. Top Hill figures hope Trump can clear the path for Cornyn, but Paxton is agitating to take him on from the right, and Hunt has told the White House only he can thread both the primary- and general-election needle.
| | | | California's tech industry is shaping national politics like never before. We’re launching California Decoded to unpack how the state is defining tech policy and politics within its borders and beyond. Sign up now to get it free for a limited time. | | | | | | | TALK OF THE TOWN | | BOOK CLUB — Brody Mullins, the former WSJ reporter and co-author of “The Wolves of K Street,” is writing a new book called “The Battle of Bigness” for Simon and Schuster. “It’s about how Donald Trump, JD Vance and Josh Hawley and the increasingly populist Republican Party — and Elizabeth Warren, AOC and Lina Khan and the increasingly progressive Democratic Party — are coming together to attack big businesses and consolidated industries and threaten the bipartisan, pro-business alliance that has dominated Washington since the days of Ronald Reagan," he told Playbook. MEDIA MOVE — Rob McLean will be a breaking news editor on the NBC News digital politics team. He previously was an editor on the business desk at CNN. ENGAGED — Matt Gruda, executive director for Team Thune, proposed to Dr. Lisa Berkowitz on Friday on a rooftop overlooking the Washington Monument. They met in Philadelphia while he was managing Dave McCormick’s Pennsylvania Senate campaign. Pic … Another pic — Gabrielle Lipsky, comms director for Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Dante Vitagliano, co-founder of Trailmapper and partner at M3 Strategies, got engaged early yesterday morning at the Enid A. Haupt Garden. They met at Capitol Hill Club for a networking lunch. Pic … Another pic WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Brian Allen, a senior specialist of congressional affairs at the American Physical Therapy Association, and Lauren Allen, an educational specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools, recently welcomed Gabriella Amelia Allen. Pic — Teresa Morgenstern, co-owner of Win the Future Strategies and a Trump White House alum, and Brian Morgenstern, head of public policy at Riot Platforms and a Trump White House alum, welcomed Mary Helen on Friday. Pic HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz … Reps. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) and Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) … Anthony Bernal … NYT’s Glenn Thrush … MPA’s Charles Rivkin … Cindy Terrell … WSJ’s Keach Hagey … Ron Brownstein … Joyce Meyer … POLITICO’s Jessie Blaeser and Ale Waase … Scott Rausch … former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) … Richard Coolidge … Olivia Perez-Cubas … CNN’s Sunlen Serfaty … Matt Flynn … The New Republic’s Ryan Kearney … Andy Oare … Bechtel Corporation’s Rayna Farrell … Megan Bartley … Melissa Kelly … Kevin O’Hanlon … Lucy Westcott … Melissa Schwartz … Yuval Levin … Ann Castagnetti … Lisa Ellman … Forterra’s Channing Lee Foster … Scott Reed … Tucker Doherty Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here. Send Playbookers tips to playbook@politico.com or text us at 202-556-3307. Playbook couldn’t happen without our deputy editor Zack Stanton and Playbook Daily Briefing producer Callan Tansill-Suddath.
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