A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on May 27, 2017.
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By the end of the day, the pattern was hard to miss: secrecy on the Russia front, and austerity theater on the budget front. Trumpworld kept insisting everything was normal. The evidence, as usual, was doing a much better job of talking.
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Fresh reporting on May 27 said Jared Kushner had discussed a secret communications channel with the Russian ambassador during the transition, deepening the White House’s already ugly Russia problem and prompting new demands for answers from Congress.
After the Fourth Circuit upheld a block on Trump’s revised travel ban, the Justice Department doubled down on defending the order, but the ruling made clear the White House’s signature immigration policy was still in deep legal trouble.
The administration’s fiscal 2018 budget details were still rolling out on May 27, and the reaction was ferocious: deep domestic cuts, rosy assumptions, and a White House trying to sell austerity as seriousness.