Female staffers in the Trump White House earn about 63 cents on every male staffer's dollar, a gap of about 37%, according to an analysis by the conservative American Enterprise Institute cited by The Washington Post.
Why it matters: That's more than double the national 17% gender pay gap. It's more than triple what the gap was under Obama.
The calculation matters, too: You may have seen reports of smaller pay gaps in the Trump White House based on mean salaries. AEI's Mark Perry says outliers make those analyses less useful.
The big reason: Most of the top roles in the Trump White House went to men.
Add another health care task to the July to-do list: Congress also has to save the Veterans Affairs Choice program from running out of funds. Military Times reports that the program, which lets veterans seek private medical care if they live too far from a VA clinic or would have to wait too long for an appointment, is spending money faster than expected and could run out of funds before the end of September.
Why it matters: It will be a good test of whether Congress has the bandwidth to handle any health care issues other than the Affordable Care Act repeal bill that's struggling in the Senate. Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin told senators last month that all he needs is authority to move money around to keep the program running.
Christopher Wray, President Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, will be before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Wednesday for a confirmation hearing. If confirmed he would fill the void Trump created by firing James Comey.
President Trump jetted off on his second foreign trip today. He'll start in Warsaw, Poland, before making his way to Hamburg, Germany for the G20 summit, where he'll end it with a highly-anticipated sit-down meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here's a quick look at the biggest items on the itinerary:
In a detailed and pointed op-ed in the WSJ, Ivanka Trump called out The Journal for its contradictory article, "The Ivanka Entitlement." She argued the publication uses a supportive response from Blackstone CEO Steven Schwarzman as a platform to "make a policy distinction, to recognize the inherent value of paid leave while opposing the government's role in administering it."
Then Trump makes her case, using statistics to bolster her point. Key quote:
"The reality is that in 63% of American homes with children, all parents work. Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program—with a reasonable time limit and benefit cap—isn't an entitlement, it's an investment in America's working families."
Why it matters: Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding paid family leave throughout her father's administration, reveals in this letter that she is dedicated to making this plan a reality.
Not a lot of people in the White House are having fun these days. But one top official is having a blast — inviting friends over for lunch, joking about good times from the campaign, plotting 2018 and even 2020. He was recently spotted in the West Wing carrying the New York Post cover mocking CNN as "THE MOST BUSTED NAME IN NEWS."
Steve Bannon, the proud culture warrior who was briefly and very publicly in the Trump doghouse, is ascendant after what friends call a period of "hibernation."
"He's not cocky -- he's comfortable," said a longtime friend. "And he understands the game."
