Big day today. We get to find out (at what time, I’m not sure) whether Trump can come up with the half-billion dollar appeal bond he needs to avoid having Tish James start seizing his assets, as the state would for any other deadbeat. There’s been a lot of coverage of what might or might not happen, which I’ll try not to duplicate. But in the featured post “Is Donald Trump Still Rich?” I’ll comment on what all this seems to mean. That should be out shortly.
Today’s other featured post (“What Republicans Want”) is a deep dive into the House Republican Study Committee’s report on its budget proposal for FY 2025. Ordinarily, a report like this wouldn’t be a big deal. But I’m calling special attention to this one because there’s very little other evidence of what the Republican Party wants or stands for. Their nominee talks in word salads full of violent imagery, their last national convention didn’t bother to write a platform, and their House majority can’t even pass stuff for the Senate to ignore or Biden to veto. So what are they running on?
Major media reports have provided snapshots of what the report contains (like an abortion ban and a proposed increase in the retirement age), but you can’t really grasp the persistent wrongheadedness of the GOP without going through the full 180 pages — which I did so you don’t have to. I’ll try to get that post out by 10 EDT or so.
The weekly summary covers the last-minute deal to yet again avoid a government shutdown, Gaza, the Moscow terror attack, other Trump trial news, and a few other things. It should appear around noon.
The Weekly Sift 