Today’s notice: It was not a great night for the Trump 2.0 agenda. DHS funding has not gotten easier. Trump appointees used personal emails for government work. Les Wexner’s political donations raise eyebrows in Ohio. And: An interview with fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.
Correction: The Tuesday edition misattributed a quote to Rep. Mike Flood. It was Rep. Maxine Waters who said, “I’ll work with the devil himself to get something on housing passed.”
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Norms fight back: Two efforts by Donald Trump to radically remake the presidency and ignore traditional political lines were rejected last night through boring, institutional procedures.
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His push to silence opposition to his tariff plans failed in the House after a long night of voting. Mike Johnson proposed a provision on a rule that would prohibit lawmakers from bringing privileged resolutions of disapproval regarding the Trump administration’s tariffs until the summer. The administration and House leaders whipped hard on this, trying to protect a core tenet of Trump 2.0 from an embarrassing congressional rebuke. Three Republicans — Reps. Kevin Kiley, Don Bacon and Thomas Massie — voted against it with Democrats, and the rule failed.