Senior administration officials and senators from both parties on the Veterans Affairs Committee are growing increasingly concerned about Ronny Jackson's prospects to be confirmed as Trump's Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Between the lines: Sources with direct knowledge of the private deliberations on Capitol Hill and inside the White House tell me the White House is well aware of these widespread concerns about Jackson.
Rep. James Clyburn, the third highest ranking Democrat in the House, told Politico that if Democrats don't take majority in November, all of the Democratic House leadership "have got to go."
The big picture: Democrats are pushing hard to take back the House in the midterms, and Axios' Alexi McCammond reports that they're feeling "increasingly...more certain" that they will. Clyburn said that even if Democrats are successful, there should be a "real assessment" of its leadership, per Politico.
Mitt Romney is facing almost a dozen other contenders for the Republican nomination at the Utah Republican Party Convention, the AP reports.
The big picture: Not clenching the nomination wouldn't end Romney's fight to take the seat being left by Senator Orrin Hatch. Per the AP, candidates can win a place in the primaries "by gathering voter signatures, which Romney has done." But, winning at the convention would allow him to "bypass the June primary and likely cruise to Election Day victory."
President Trump is swapping out Washington, D.C. for Washington, Michigan next week as he, for the second year in a row, isn't attending the traditional White House Correspondents Dinner, and is instead holding a rally during the event.
The bottom line: This isn't surprising, as Trump's relationship with the media is anything but friendly. But, the White House said earlier this month that Trump will "actively encourage" administration officials to attend, which is a noteworthy change in tone.
President Trump went after New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman in a fiery tweetstorm Saturday morning in response to her NYT story about his treatment of Michael Cohen.
The details: Trump has gone after Haberman before, calling her a "Hillary flunky" and denying that she has had access to him. Haberman has been with the Times since 2015, and recently won a Pulitzer for her coverage of the Trump team's connections with Russia.
Amy Chozick's new book "Chasing Hillary" is already making news around town with new details about Hillary Clinton's campaign falling under the microscope in the days before its release.
"I knew it. I knew this would happen to me ... They were never going to let me be president."
Washington, D.C. is on the verge of becoming the first major U.S. city to allow people as young as 16 to vote in local and federal elections, including for president — under a proposal that has gotten support from a majority of the District’s council and the mayor.
Why it matters: Lowering the voting age to 16 from 18 is a direct attempt to capitalize on the post-millennial generation’s brewing political activism and power that have been radically heightened by the country’s increasingly polarized climate.
