The Trump administration is pushing for a "rightward shift" in the Senate's bipartisan health-care bill, the Washington Post reports, citing people briefed on the matter. The White House wants retroactive relief from the ACA's insurance mandate.
Why this matters: The Post reports nothing has been decided and negotiations continue, but the White House demands "could derail the carefully crafted bipartisan package unveiled this week."
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If you want to understand the rhetorical roots of Trump's Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore, go back and watch Tucker Carlson's monologues for the past six weeks.
Between the lines: Trump — or rather his speechwriter Stephen Miller — framed the president's opposition to the Black Lives Matter protest movement using the same imagery Carlson has been laying out night after night on Fox.
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The news media has largely moved on, but foreign government officials remain fixated on John Bolton's memoir, "The Room Where It Happened."
Why it matters: Bolton's detailed inside-the-Oval revelations have raised the blood pressure of allies who were already stressed about President Trump's unreliability.