| | | |  | | By Adam Wren with Dasha Burns | | Presented by |  | | | With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco On today’s Playbook Podcast, Adam Wren and Megan Messerly talk about the Democrats’ ongoing moderates-vs.-progressives fight, why President Donald Trump finds it so hard to pivot attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein story and Trump’s role whipping votes on the Hill.
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| Good morning. It’s Wednesday. I’m Adam Wren. Get in touch. In today’s Playbook … — Dems gleefully troll Trump over Epstein — and see an opening with voters craving outsiders. — VP JD Vance heads to Pennsylvania to begin the administration’s efforts to message the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. — The House readies for a big crypto vote today, and the Senate takes a big step on rescissions.
|  | DRIVING THE DAY | | THE FUTURE STARTS NOW: The battle for the future of the Democratic Party is coming into sharper focus in Washington today on multiple fronts. MAMDANI IN D.C.: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, arrives in Washington this morning for a breakfast event hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). He will also meet with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). His long-awaited meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is holding out on an endorsement, will come on Friday back in NYC. Also coming soon: Mamdani “plans to clarify his stance on the use of the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ as soon as this week,” POLITICO’s Emily Ngo and Joe Anuta report. The broader context: Mamdani’s D.C. pilgrimage comes as Democrats throughout the nation battle over whether a more progressive-populist approach or more moderate posture is better suited to compete, win and deliver in the Trump era. One way to think of it: “Progressives are like ‘Succession,’ centrists are like the NFL,” Liam Kerr, co-founder of centrist Democratic outfit Welcome PAC, tells Playbook. “One gets high ratings across every demographic every single fall, while the other occasionally dominates elite conversation. Mamdani-mania is like the season finale.” And yet: That wasn’t immediately clear in last night’s fundraising numbers. MONEY TALKS: One takeaway from the latest FEC filings: Among Dems, the progressives — not the centrists — continue to be star fundraisers, per POLITICO’s Jessica Piper, Nick Wu and Andrew Howard. The heavyweight: AOC had another mammoth quarter, bringing in $5.8 million in Q2. Yes, that’s down from the whopping $9.5 million she raised in Q1, but it’s still way more than any other incumbent House Democrat raked into their campaign account. Other top House Dem fundraisers include Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who raised $2.5 million and $2.1 million, respectively. Jeffries came in just shy of $2.4 million in his campaign account (though in fairness to him, much of the money he raises goes not to his own campaign account, but into affiliated PACs and committees). COMPLICATING THE MODS-VS-LIBS NARRATIVE: Last night in Arizona, Adelita Grijalva won a landslide victory in a special Democratic primary to fill the vacancy left by the death of her father, the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva. In doing so, she bested Deja Foxx — the 25-year-old influencer backed by former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg — by more than 40 points at the time that the AP called the race. Hold your hot takes: Yes, Foxx ran as a progressive, and yes, she’s part of Gen Z. But as Cook Political Report’s Erin Covey writes, “the matchup between Grijalva, 54, and her opponents never mapped cleanly onto ideological or generational lines.” Grijalva had endorsements from AOC, Sanders and pretty much the entirety of Arizona’s Democratic establishment. Foxx managed to outspend Grijalva on TV and digital, but “in this low-turnout special election, the older, politically-engaged voters that were most likely to cast ballots were also most likely to be loyal to the Grijalva family.” Tying some threads together: A difficult question for Democrats as their moderate and progressive factions tussle is how to recapture the working-class Latino voters who so rejected them in key battlegrounds last year. Reaching these voters hasn’t been the party’s strong suit over the last few years. In 2024, “they were just fed up with Democrats,” says Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, who is holding a presser with former Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) at the National Press Club at 3 p.m. on how Dems can stop losing the Latino vote. The ‘burn the system’ voters: “It’s not so much ideological as it is a top-down problem,” Rocha tells Playbook’s Ali Bianco. “There’s growing anti-incumbent bias as Latino voters — like a lot of the country — hunger for an ‘outsider’ burn-the-system candidate. Right now, populists on both sides are dominating that messaging.” Which means it’s a question of both policy substance and messaging style — whether a candidate authentically seems like they’re an outsider or reads like an insider in the eyes of voters.
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Learn more. | | | | ENTER THE EPSTEIN STORY: All of which partly explains why the ongoing saga surrounding the DOJ’s non-release of the Jeffrey Epstein files has such staying power: Many politicians are sort of opportunistically hyping it up because it’s a way to sound like an outsider who’s not part of the establishment. First in Playbook — Dems see an opening: Fueled by internal polling that shows an opportunity to label Trump a flip-flopper, Democrats are going hard on Epstein, POLITICO’s Elena Schneider and Nick Wu report. The data: Elena and Nick obtained internal Dem polling from Blue Rose Research that found 70 percent of voters believe “law enforcement is withholding information about powerful people connected to Epstein, including 61 percent of Trump voters.” And 58 percent of voters said Trump “maybe was or definitely was” involved in a cover-up. It’s a messaging exercise: Despite House Judiciary Dems calling for a hearing and others mounting procedural efforts, the party has little power on the Hill to make an impact, Nick writes. But after months of hand-wringing about new media and younger, less-knowledgeable voters, suddenly Khanna is on the “Flagrant Podcast” calling out GOP members by name, and House Majority PAC is trolling Republicans with memes that call them “Epstein simps.” So what’s actually going on? This morning, POLITICO’s Ankush Khardori in his latest Rules of Law column breaks down three possible explanations for the administration’s actions: (1) There’s an actual cover-up at hand; (2) Trump officials really believed the conspiracy theories until they got into government; or (3) they never believed them and were always misleading voters. “The possibilities range from bad to worse,” especially for what they say about the country’s legal leadership, Ankush writes.
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VP JD Vance will tout the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in Pennsylvania today. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images | ALL ABOUT THAT BASE: There’s what the Trump administration would like to be focusing on today — namely, pitching the megabill as a win — and what is instead likely to drive more conversation in Washington — namely, the Epstein story, which continues to develop fast and furious. What Trump says: “I don’t understand what the interest or what the fascination is,” Trump reiterated yesterday — just the kind of comment that keeps enraging large sections of the MAGA base who have taken it on faith for years that there’s an Epstein cover-up. What Johnson says: Speaker Mike Johnson poured more fuel on the fire, telling Benny Johnson that the administration should release all the Epstein files. AG Pam Bondi “needs to come forward and explain,” the speaker said. (He later played clean-up on X, trying to shift the blame to Dems.) What Johnson won’t do: Despite his comments, Republicans have twice blocked Democrats’ efforts to force a vote to release the files. Reps. Khanna and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are now trying a discharge petition, per POLITICO’s Nick Wu, but that’s a long shot. Look for Johnson’s latest comments at the inaugural summit from The Hill and NewsNation, which will feature top politicians all day and a conversation with the speaker at 3:30 p.m. The defense: As the administration worked to project calm, Bondi said, “I’m going to be here as long as the president wants me here, and I believe he’s made that crystal clear it’s four years.” Trump commented briefly that Bondi should put out “whatever she thinks is credible.” And Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) told Playbook’s Dasha Burns for “The Conversation” podcast that he still thinks Bondi is “doing a good job” — though he declined to discuss any specifics of the handling of the Epstein case. But the backlash is growing: Republicans from Nikki Haley to Charlie Kirk emphasized that they’re not letting this go. … The hard right in Congress is fuming: Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told CNN’s Manu Raju that he doesn’t trust DOJ. … Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wants Ghislaine Maxwell to testify, per NBC. … Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) wants a special counsel. For this group, the Epstein furor is just one in a line of recent disappointments by Trump, NYT’s Annie Karni reports — and much of the online far-right has long mistrusted Bondi, POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney and colleagues report. … And this is all turbocharged by Elon Musk’s decision to scupper content moderation on X, POLITICO’s Aaron Mak notes. Not likely to quiet the conspiracy theories: Wired’s Dhruv Mehrotra obtained metadata that shows the FBI’s “raw” surveillance video from the night Epstein killed himself is seemingly missing 2 minutes and 53 seconds. MEANWHILE, THE SALES PITCH BEGINS: The administration’s efforts to message the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will begin in earnest today with VP JD Vance, who heads to West Pittston, Pennsylvania, to deliver remarks about the megabill at 1 p.m., POLITICO’s Irie Sentner and Myah Ward preview. Alongside SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Vance will tout the most popular new tax breaks in the law to appeal to working-class voters — the beginning of a monthslong effort by the Cabinet to fan out across the country and highlight various provisions. The stakes are high: Vance will be in a crucial purple area of Pennsylvania that helped deliver the state to Trump and flip a House seat. Around Scranton, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) is already facing heavy blowback for voting yes, Bloomberg Government’s Jonathan Tamari reports, but Democrats still need to land a strong challenger to him. And it’s a tall order for Vance: Though some pieces of the law poll well — and many Americans have yet to form an opinion — it’s overall underwater with voters in surveys, as Democrats emphasize its tax benefits for the wealthy and major cuts to the social safety net. Joe Biden’s experience showed how difficult it can be for a White House to reap political benefits from its signature legislation. The policy: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has already introduced legislation to repeal some of the Medicaid cuts in the law, which he voted for, per The Hill. Other lesser-known aspects are just beginning to be digested. The law also froze future increases for Puerto Rico’s food aid system, which could worsen people’s struggles amid high prices, The 19th’s Marissa Martinez reports from San Juan.
| | | | Did you know Playbook goes beyond the newsletter—with powerhouse new co-hosts at the mic? Tune in to The Playbook Podcast every weekday for exclusive intel and sharp analysis on Trump’s Washington, straight from Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns. Start listening now. | | | | | ON THE HILL THE WEEK’S BIG VOTES: Both Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are working to push through major legislation that snagged on GOP objections. Trump announced last night that Republican holdouts agreed to vote this morning for a rule to proceed to landmark cryptocurrency bills, per Bloomberg. That followed yesterday’s collapse, when conservative hard-liners who had issues with the industry-friendly stablecoin legislation tanked a procedural vote along with Dems. But if the rebels are back on board, the newly powerful crypto industry is close to its first big congressional victory. Today’s redo will also pave the way for the annual Defense appropriations bill, per POLITICO’s Jasper Goodman and Meredith Lee Hill. Another win for crypto: Two federal agencies have dropped probes into Polymarket, Bloomberg’s Lydia Beyoud and Sridhar Natarajan scooped. Rescissions roundup: The Senate moved closer to passing a $9 billion White House request to claw back foreign aid and public broadcasting funding, after Vance broke a 50-50 tie on a procedural vote, per POLITICO’s Katherine Tully-McManus and Jordain Carney. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted no, and it remains unclear whether Thune has the votes for final passage by the Friday deadline. GOP leaders feel good, but the administration still hasn’t broken down what’s actually in it. POLITICO’s Inside Congress has more on Thune’s rescissions push. Life and death: The vote came after hard-liners made a consequential concession to strip out $400 million in funding cuts for PEPFAR, the HIV/AIDS program that has saved an estimated 26 million lives. Also in the offing is language specifically stating that other global health cuts can’t affect food aid, malaria programs and other essential services. Many GOP senators remain concerned about the lack of specificity, and Democrats are livid. But some uncertain votes like Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) have moved to yes. (Related read: NYT’s Apoorva Mandavilli on OMB Director Russ Vought’s outright false claim of PEPFAR money going to Russian abortion funding.) Off the airwaves: Though most of the rescissions are for foreign aid (including $1 billion for the U.N.), the cuts to PBS and NPR have worried rural senators — and been the top priority for Trump. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said he’d gotten an assurance that the administration would step in to fund tribal broadcasters. But PBS leader Paula Kerger tells WaPo’s Scott Nover that the cuts could pose an existential threat to many local, rural stations, and kids would lose out on educational programming. It’s 2024 somewhere: House and Senate Republicans continue to deepen investigations into Biden’s mental fitness in office. The House Oversight Committee today is interviewing Anthony Bernal, a top aide for former first lady Jill Biden. And Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) subpoenaed former deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, per POLITICO’s Hailey Fuchs. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked the Archives for emails related to Biden’s clemency decisions, the Washington Examiner’s David Sivak scooped. The White House has also launched a major investigation of Biden’s use of the autopen, Fox News’ Brooke Singman scooped. First in Playbook — A no-go for NGOs: After the House Homeland Security Committee berated hundreds of non-governmental organizations that do immigration work — demanding information and holding hearings on their use of taxpayer money — more than 500 nonprofit and nonpartisan groups are fighting back. Organized by Norm Eisen and Lisa Gilbert, their letter warns that “this investigation is Congress weaponizing its powers to target and intimidate nonprofit organizations that are fulfilling the guidelines of federal grants simply because they disagree with the policy those grants advance.” Read it here (h/t Daniel Lippman) Funding fights: House Appropriations Republicans are planning to cut discretionary spending for fiscal year 2026 by $45 billion, a much smaller reduction than Trump’s $163 billion request, per Roll Call’s Aidan Quigley. That has ticked off conservative fiscal hawks, and the process is moving fairly slowly ahead of the August recess. But across the Capitol, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said a deal to resolve the FBI HQ standoff and get the Commerce-Justice-Science bill moving could come together as soon as tomorrow, per POLITICO’s Katherine Tully-McManus. Tomorrow’s showdown: The Senate Judiciary Committee is due to vote on Emil Bove’s federal judicial nomination. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is still planning to vote yes, telling Semafor’s Burgess Everett that his “only real red line” for nominees is supporting Jan. 6. (Bove refusing to denounce the insurrection and firing dozens of Jan. 6 prosecutors apparently does not cross it.) First in Playbook — Pentagon under the microscope: The Heritage Foundation has launched a new “Defense Budget Builder,” which allows people to search through defense budget line items more easily.
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| | | | BEST OF THE REST DEMOCRACY SIREN: “Trump accuses Sen. Adam Schiff of mortgage fraud in new attack on critic,” by WaPo’s Rachel Siegel: “[A] senior administration official told The Washington Post that a criminal case had been referred to the Justice Department, in a sharp escalation of the White House’s attacks on vocal Trump critics. … [Sen. Adam Schiff] denied any wrongdoing and said the administration’s claims were political retribution.” Add the LA Times’ Kevin Rector and Laura Nelson: “A memorandum reviewed by The Times from Fannie Mae investigators to William J. Pulte, the Trump-appointed director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, does not accuse Schiff of mortgage fraud.” SPEAKING OF BILL PULTE: The lightning-rod FHFA head continued to post aggressively last night that Fed Chair Jerome Powell not only should resign, but is also considering doing so — as many far-right Republicans ramped up the pressure campaign on the independent central bank leader because he hasn’t lowered interest rates. Jamie Dimon warned yesterday that it would be dangerous for Trump to erode Fed independence, per the FT. But Trump said that the controversy over a Fed headquarters renovation “sort of is” a fireable offense by Powell. Potential Powell replacement Kevin Warsh has transformed his views on rate cuts to align with Trump, Bloomberg’s Catarina Saraiva reports. THE PURGE: Sweeping layoffs are starting to ripple across the federal government after the Supreme Court allowed Trump to proceed. Thousands of HHS employees were terminated, per NYT’s Christina Jewett and Benjamin Mueller, while top Russia/Ukraine intelligence analysts were axed from the State Department, per NYT’s Michael Crowley and colleagues. Education Department staff who create the Nation’s Report Card have been decimated, WaPo’s Justine McDaniel reports. And SEC Chair Paul Atkins is pushing out Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Chair Erica Williams, per the FT. IMMIGRATION FILES: The Pentagon said it’ll send home half of the National Guard troops deployed to LA amid protests over immigration enforcement, per the LA Times. FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK: Forthcoming executive orders will include one on the NCAA’s Name, Image, and Likeness program, CBS’ Ed O’Keefe and Jennifer Jacobs report, and one on including private markets in 401(k)s, WSJ’s Miriam Gottfried and colleagues scooped.
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SPORTS BLINK — The Congressional Women’s Softball Game will kick off at 7:35 p.m. tonight — and for the first time, it’s taking place at Audi Field in a reflection of higher interest in the game, which raises awareness for breast cancer and money to support survivors. This year, the members of Congress have a bunch of new blood on their team, while the frequently victorious Bad News Babes are largely putting up repeat journalist players, per Roll Call. THE FUTURE OF MEDIA — “Fox News Strikes Deal to Put ‘Ruthless’ Podcast on Digital Roster,” by Variety’s Brian Steinberg OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at the Prime Rib for an event with Republican members of Congress and Arnold Ventures: Reps. Mike Flood (R-Neb.), Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and Troy Downing (R-Mont.), plus a surprise appearance by Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong. — SPOTTED at a party for Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf’s new book, “2024” ($32), at the home of Mary Jordan, Kevin Sullivan and Kate Sullivan: Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, Kaitlan Collins, Sally Quinn, Phil Rucker and Josh Humphries, Ashley Parker and Michael Bender, Kara Swisher and Amanda Katz, Matea Gold, Steven Ginsberg and Amy Joyce, Patty Stonesifer, John Hudson, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Meridith McGraw, Adrienne Elrod, James Perry Adams, David Fahrenthold, Carlos Lozada, Mark Mazzetti, Kara Voght, Jonathan Swan, Dick Stevenson, Teddy Schleifer, Dan Balz, Shane Harris, Roz Helderman, Matt Zapotosky, Shawn McCreesh, Damian Paletta, Aruna Viswanatha, Janet Adamy, Andrew Restuccia, Annie Karni, Reid Epstein, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, David Chalian, Richard Walters, Michael Ahrens, Ryan Barber and Tarini Parti, Rob Flaherty and Carla Frank, Chris Meagher, Sabrina Singh and Mike Smith, Rachael Bade, Jeff Solnet and Betsy Klein, Ken and Danielle Vogel, Tammy Haddad, Evan Hollander and Eli Yokley, Eli Aguayo, Jake Traylor, T.W. Arrighi, Jasmine Wright, Liz Johnson, Ben Terris and Sam Wright. — Telemundo and Comcast hosted a reception last night celebrating the one-year countdown to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, for which the network holds Spanish-language rights in the U.S. SPOTTED: Reps. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.), Nellie Pou (D-N.J.), Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) and Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Lance West, Mónica Gil, Phil Tahtakran, Joaquin Duro, Andrés Cantor, Jose Cancela, Juan Otero, Jackie Bradford, Marco Davis, Tony Tijerino and Cid Wilson. MEDIA MOVES — Caitlin Reilly is now covering Congress with a focus on tax and fiscal policy for Bloomberg. She previously was a tax and economics reporter at CQ Roll Call. … Saige Miller is now an associate producer on NPR’s White House desk. She previously was a Utah politics reporter for KUER-FM. TRANSITIONS — Melinda Garrett is now director of working families in the Human Capital program at the Bipartisan Policy Center. She previously was senior adviser for the CHIPS for America strategy team in the U.S. Department of Commerce. … Allison Peters is now the head of U.S. public policy for Discord. She previously was deputy assistant secretary of state for human rights, democracy and labor at the State Department. … Lily Adams is joining Orchestra as managing director for the executive advisory practice. She most recently was assistant secretary of the Treasury for public affairs, and is a Democratic campaign and Hill veteran. … … Maggie Angel is joining the Illinois governor’s office in D.C. as director of federal affairs. She previously was a legislative assistant for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). … Gordon Larsen is joining 50 State as VP. He previously was senior adviser to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. … Seven Letter is adding Ashley Smith as senior director of paid media, creative specialist Toni McCullough and paid media specialist Shammah Moise to its Seven Letter Labs arm, Madi Mannes to Seven Letter Insight and Lauren Rinderle as manager of administration. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) … Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) … Oakland, California, Mayor Barbara Lee … NYT’s Shane Goldmacher … Neil Chatterjee … former Reps. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Ross Spano (R-Fla.) and Michael Bilirakis (R-Fla.) (95) … Maddie Conway … Randy DeCleene of The Fund for American Studies … PhRMA’s Stami Turk and Zach Sentementes … Julie Tagen of House Judiciary … Chad Carlough of Carlough Solutions … Anita McBride … Scott Melville of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association … Marisol Samayoa of Sen. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) office … Amanda Henneberg of Cavalry … Riley Roberts … Amanda Hallberg Greenwell … Manuel Bonilla … Doug Feith … Judge Don Willett … Chad Griffin … Marcus Towns … Teri Whitcraft … Brooke Starr of Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) office … Gordon Sondland … Karin Johanson … DNC’s Sonia Lachter … Ben Tracy … POLITICO’s Kalon Makle and Luc Traugott … Kathy Calvin … WaPo’s Genevieve Suplee … Betty Hudson Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here. Send Playbookers tips to playbook@politico.com or text us on Signal here. Playbook couldn’t happen without our editor Zack Stanton, deputy editor Garrett Ross and Playbook Podcast producer Callan Tansill-Suddath.
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