Today’s notice: Nobody wants summer to end. Big week for judicial power. An interview with Michael Whatley. And: What redistricting means for the House’s diversity.
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Wake me up when September ends: We are just two days into this new month, and D.C.’s power players already seem grumpy.
“Clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!!” Donald Trump posted Monday morning as fallout from last week’s CDC implosion continued to create unfun news days for the White House. The president’s response was to yell at everyone: Maybe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrong about vaccines, or maybe the drug companies are. Either way, “I want the answer, and I want it NOW,” Trump demanded.
Piping up: The president’s missive came just hours after nine former CDC directors, stretching back all the way to 1977, penned an op-ed in The New York Times claiming Kennedy is “endangering” the lives of everyday Americans. His dramatic shake-up is “unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” they wrote.