Extra, Extra
Not a Matter of Tariff, But When: “US wholesale prices rose far more than expected in July, posting their biggest surge in three years.” Someone’s gonna have to make up for those higher prices, and that someone is always the consumer.
+ Wag the DOGE: “Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that Politico could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.” Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts. (DOGE wouldn’t have to inflate the stats if it instead measured how much damage its done.)
+ Meeting of the Mines: Expectations are being re-set for the Putin/Trump summit in Alaska. “The more important meeting will be the second meeting that we’re having,” Trump said “We’re going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we’ll bring some of the European leaders along, maybe not.” (So this is a meeting about having a meeting.) Here’s the latest from CNN.
+ Bystand and Deliver: “President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a ‘bystander’ who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.” (He could have been one of the lunatics who broke through barricades and took a dump on the Capitol’s marble floor and the Senate GOP would still confirm him.)
+ Pill Pullers: “A coalition of faith-based activists had pressured the retailer to not offer the abortion pill mifepristone in its pharmacy locations. The group now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens.” Costco Forgoes Sale of Abortion Pill, Emboldening Religious Groups.
+ Sandwich Generation: “A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal agent who was patrolling Washington this week, after calling him and other agents ‘fascists,’ was charged with assaulting a federal officer on Wednesday. On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the man had been fired from his job at the Justice Department.” Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in DC.
