Rachael Bade

1 week ago | politico.com | Rachael Bade |Megan Messerly

When President Donald Trump has decamped to Mar-a-Lago during his second term, there’s one Cabinet secretary who’s joined him every single time. It’s the same man that the president summons to his table for ice cream sundaes most Friday nights to gossip and replay the week; the same man who was his first call to float some outlandish ideas, including annexing the Panama Canal and creating a $5 million “gold card” visa. That man is Howard Lutnick.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Rachael Bade

A few hours later, Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to pull a critical budget vote due to a conservative mutiny — even after Trump himself leaned over and over again on key holdouts. It was a striking one-two punch attacking the narrative that has surrounded Trump since November — that he is a political juggernaut able to run roughshod over his party and beyond to get his way on everything from economic policy to his choice for Cabinet secretaries.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Rachael Bade

The opening months of President Donald Trump’s second term have been studded with eye-popping power plays targeting cornerstones of American institutional power: Neutering big business. Forcing white-shoe law firms and elite universities to supplicate. Strong-arming some of our oldest global allies. But this week, for the first time since he came roaring back to power, “the great grovel” — as my boss John Harris aptly dubbed it — appears to be meeting its limits.

3 weeks ago | rsn.org | Rachael Bade

ALSO SEE: Musk May Step Down But DOGE Said to Continue The president is pleased with Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability. President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.

3 weeks ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Rachael Bade

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