Today’s notice: House members put on their comfy home shoes. The White House has no such luck. How Trump cleared the field in Michigan’s Senate race. The next step in the fluoride fight. Checking ICE’s math (and finding it lacking).
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It’s giving out-of-office autoreply: NOTUS’ Hill team clocked Rep. Pat Fallon as he walked into a men’s room in a suit during the final House vote Wednesday — and walked out in a golf polo and jeans, carrying said suit.
Lawmakers jetted out of the House (some literally with suitcases in hand), leaving their friends in the White House to handle a growing list of things not going as planned:
Epstein page not turned: A subject-change press conference from the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was very thorough, but it was also immediately drowned out by multiple outlets reporting that Attorney General Pam Bondi had told Donald Trump he was mentioned in Justice Department Epstein documents. She delivered the bad news in May, shortly before the announcement that no more documents would be released.