Today’s notice: The state of bipartisanship. The Problem Solver-in-Chief. Democratic candidate stampede. An exclusive on DNC organizing. A mess, Texas-style.
Can Conservatives Be Won Over Without Losing Moderates?
This Big, Beautiful Bill process is both the hardest and easiest thing Republicans could have done. With narrow margins in both chambers, the plan was to do a lot at once and do it fast, giving everyone something and not a lot of time to think about what they had to give up.
Going fast is not going well. So now conversations about what people are giving up are replacing the excitement about what they’re getting. NOTUS’ Katherine Swartz, Reese Gorman, Riley Rogerson and Daniella Diaz report that Speaker Mike Johnson is “forging ahead” even though moderates and conservatives have not decided on a compromise yet.
Our Capitol Hill team has a lot of details on what we know about the changes conservatives wrenched out of leadership over the weekend, even though many of those changes remain opaque. As they become clearer, will moderates stick with the bill or will they be the ones slowing it down? No one is really sure.