Today’s notice: The Senate gets out of Dodge. Big questions on the future of Trump’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. A brave new world for Texas Democrats. And: Trump’s political machine rakes in the big bucks.
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The politics of punting: The Senate skipped town for recess moody and without a deal on President Donald Trump’s nominations, but with his blessing for Republicans to go home and tell Americans “what bad people the Democrats are.”
Chuck Schumer is happy, for now: “Trump caved and got nothing,” the Senate minority leader said after the big punt.
Is it a Pyrrhic victory or a real one? Senate Republicans have signaled they’ll return and change the rules on nominations, surgically slicing off another piece of filibuster power. This remains Washington’s most glass-half-full vs. -empty conversation.