{"id":1677,"date":"2026-07-24T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:40:37","slug":"dinner-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Dinner, Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>Today\u2019s notice:<\/i><\/b><i> White House reporters defend their big dinner. Maine Democrats hope for some stability. The speaker has had it. Russia sanctions stall. And: Democrats readying to take on the \u201canti-woke jobs board.\u201d<\/i><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1673\">Democrats Are Staffing Up to Unwind Trump\u2019s Changes to the State Department<\/a><\/p><h2><b>THE LATEST<\/b><\/h2><p><b>To redo or not to redo?<\/b> It\u2019s Washington\u2019s most glamorous \u2014 and most controversial \u2014 night. Again. <b>Donald Trump<\/b>, most of his Cabinet and White House journalists are making a second attempt at the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner after a shooting halted April\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the dinner will be held at the Waldorf Astoria, formerly Trump International, even as the president derides reporters, <span><u>sues news organizations<\/u><\/span> and his White House keeps a list of \u201c<span><u>media offenders<\/u><\/span>.\u201d (The Justice Department <span><u>dropped subpoenas<\/u><\/span> against New York Times journalists yesterday, so they have that going for them.)<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SINGH_FAMILY_NOTUS_JM060 copy.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1539\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/76445c2cef10e3d52043b0529872c58a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Thune\" class=\"wp-image-1655\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f6fc2b117b4b3100a28ffbbb5e42669.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      John Thune and the White House Are Openly Fighting Over the SAVE Act\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiki Iriafen AP - 26202114488512\" class=\"wp-image-1669\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ff3ba9fb8cb3e51816f1bd658d01f80c-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ff3ba9fb8cb3e51816f1bd658d01f80c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ff3ba9fb8cb3e51816f1bd658d01f80c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ff3ba9fb8cb3e51816f1bd658d01f80c.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      The Mystics Are Officially a Problem for the Rest of the WNBA\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson\" class=\"wp-image-1676\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc29195c64d21e357c116586b5c48d7b-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc29195c64d21e357c116586b5c48d7b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc29195c64d21e357c116586b5c48d7b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fc29195c64d21e357c116586b5c48d7b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Democrats Lock Back In on Maine\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The perennial, and now more pertinent, question remains: Should journalists continue to host Nerd Prom? And what does it mean in the second age of Trump, when his administration is working harder than ever to find leakers and target reporters who break well-sourced stories?<\/p><p>Some 500 journalists and eight press organizations say the <span><u>dinner should go<\/u><\/span>. NOTUS\u2019 Ben T.N. Mause and Manuela Silva surveyed White House reporters this week on whether there\u2019s credibility to the argument that having the dinner is the same as honoring Trump. Many said canceling the event would be giving in.<\/p><p>\u201cSome of the journalists he subpoenaed and has gone after verbally are going to be on stage with him receiving awards. I think that image, and celebrating a free press, will say more than boycotting the event would,\u201d a White House reporter told us.<\/p><p>The contrary take: The dinners feed \u201cinto the narrative that D.C. journalists are elitist and out of touch with everyday Americans. \u2018Look at them eating lobster, dressed in designer gowns and rubbing elbows with the very people they cover,\u2019\u201d another White House reporter said. That said, they added, don\u2019t disinvite Trump \u2014 use the opportunity to call out his treatment of the media.<\/p><p><b>Open tabs:<\/b> <span><u>Number of U.S. troop deaths suddenly appears lower on Pentagon website<\/u><\/span> (NYT); <span><u>U.S. intelligence agency quietly cut about 200 jobs since June 1<\/u><\/span> (WaPo); <span><u>Trump administration drops demands for list of Jewish employees at UPenn<\/u><\/span> (Politico); <span><u>Mortgage rates hit highest levels in nearly a year<\/u><\/span> (WSJ); <span><u>Oil surges to $100 per barrel after Red Sea attacks<\/u><\/span> (NBC); <span><u>Key Republican senator says he will support Trump\u2019s pick for C.D.C director<\/u><\/span> (NYT)<\/p><h2><b>From the campaign trail<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Southern swing: <\/b>Sen. <b>Chris Murphy<\/b> of Connecticut, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, is headed south this weekend, campaigning for Senate candidate <b>Annie Andrews<\/b> in South Carolina and Sen. <b>Jon Ossoff<\/b> in Georgia, Murphy\u2019s team shared exclusively with NOTUS\u2019 Igor Bobic. His message? Democrats need to become a \u201cbig tent\u201d party.<\/p><p><b>Hat trick:<\/b> The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is on a 3x losing streak with high-profile losses that are causing House Democrats to question the campaign arm\u2019s primary strategy.<\/p><p>Democrats want the DCCC to improve how it communicates with members and takes feedback, <span><u>NOTUS\u2019 Oriana Gonz\u00e1lez reports<\/u><\/span>.<\/p><p><b>The Maine question:<\/b> Democrats think they\u2019ve stopped the bleeding in Maine\u2019s Senate race with <b>Troy Jackson<\/b> as their heir apparent. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be hotly contested, but I think it\u2019s very much back in play,\u201d said Sen. <b>Martin Heinrich<\/b> (D-New Mexico).<\/p><p>Jackson, the former state Senate president, has no federal political experience and only three months to assemble a campaign against a 30-year Republican incumbent, Sen. <b>Susan Collins<\/b>. But as his nomination becomes formal on Saturday, Democrats tell <span><u>NOTUS\u2019 Alex Roarty, Igor Bobic and Christa Dutton<\/u><\/span> they <i>think<\/i> Jackson might be in a better position than <b>Graham Platner<\/b> was even before the sexual assault allegations.<\/p><h2><b>From the Hill<\/b><\/h2><p><b>Mike Johnson\u2019s doom loop: <\/b>After months of dealing with rebellions from members of his own party, the normally even-keeled speaker of the House had finally had enough and snapped, \u201cI\u2019m sick of this shit,\u201d at Rep. <b>Anna Paulina Luna<\/b> (R-Florida).<\/p>\n<p><b>It was just one of a slew of daily crises<\/b> Johnson has dealt with this year as members of his own conference threaten to derail their party\u2019s agenda, <span><u>NOTUS\u2019 Reese Gorman reports<\/u><\/span>. And rank-and-file Republicans are increasingly upsetthat a few of their colleagues hold so much power. Some are thinking of ways to actually hold the rebels to account.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Republican conference is a diverse gathering of people, some of whom are really effective at getting things done and others who are more interested in knocking things down,\u201d Rep. <b>Dusty Johnson <\/b>(R-South Dakota) told Reese.<\/p><p><b>Still stalled:<\/b> The long-championed (and long-stalled) bill by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham to enact more sanctions on Russia was poised to finally pass, boosted by the politician\u2019s unexpected death. Instead, the measure is at risk of stalling out \u2014 again, NOTUS\u2019 <span><u>Igor Bobic and Joe Gould<\/u><\/span> report.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1671\">Democrats Want a DCCC Reset After Three High-Profile Losses<\/a><\/p><p><b>\u201cWe\u2019re going to screw around here and lose this bill if we don\u2019t go vote,\u201d<\/b> Sen. <b>John Kennedy<\/b> (R-Louisiana) told our reporters. \u201cWe just pissed away two weeks. Now we got a week and a half left, and I don\u2019t know if a vote is scheduled.\u201d<\/p><h2><b>From the White House<\/b><\/h2><p><b>Thune v. Leavitt: <\/b>Senate Majority Leader <b>John Thune<\/b> and White House press secretary <b>Karoline Leavitt<\/b> exchanged not-so-friendly fire yesterday over the SAVE America Act, the voter-ID bill Trump considers his top priority, <span><u>NOTUS\u2019 Al Weaver writes<\/u><\/span>. Leavitt told reporters at a briefing that the president\u2019s \u201cpatience was running out.\u201d In turn, Thune shot back that \u201cshe or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes, right?\u201d<\/p><h2><b>THE BIG ONE<\/b><\/h2><p><b>The opposite of woke:<\/b> A firm called RedBalloon, which claims to be the \u201canti-woke jobs board,\u201d received a $1 million no-bid contract to help the State Department recruit candidates after the department laid off 20% of its workforce last year, <span><u>NOTUS\u2019 Eric Katz reports<\/u><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the recruiting was focused on DEI. It was trying to get in the guy with a PhD in Black dance, rather than people who can do the best job,\u201d <b>Andrew Crapuchettes<\/b>, the firm\u2019s owner, said in a podcast interview recently. \u201cI would love to see a lot of Christians applying, taking the test, doing the hard work, becoming a foreign service officer.\u201d<\/p><p>Democrats, who say they want to help employees booted under a reduction in force get their jobs back, are planning to investigate if they retake power in Congress.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to beef up our counsel staff so that we\u2019re ready, because I can\u2019t let folks get away with this,\u201d Rep. <b>Gregory Meeks<\/b> (D-New York) told Eric.<\/p><h2><b>NOTUS METRO<\/b><\/h2><p><b>NOTUS has some of the best reporters<\/b> covering D.C.-area news, sports and culture. <span><u>Sign up<\/u><\/span> for our local newsletter!<\/p><p><b>Sports desk:<\/b> <span><u>The Mystics Are Officially a Problem for the Rest of the WNBA<\/u><\/span>, by Dave Sheinin<\/p><h2><b>NEW ON NOTUS<\/b><\/h2><p><b>McConnell\u2019s absence impact:<\/b> Sen. <b>Mitch McConnell<\/b> (R-Kentucky) has not voted since being hospitalized June 14, and his absence has complicated the math on some key Republican priorities, <span><u>NOTUS\u2019 Avani Kalra and Al Weaver report<\/u><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>One example: The Senate Appropriations Committees is made up of 15 Republicans and 14 Democrats. Without McConnell, the committee cannot move any legislation forward that does not have bipartisan support.<\/p><p><b>More:<\/b> <span><u>House Republicans Focus on Democrats\u2019 Plans, Not Their Own Wins<\/u><\/span>, by Kadia Goba<\/p><p><span><u>Trump Expands His Ratepayer Pledge With Republican Governors, Utilities<\/u><\/span>, by Mara Hoplamazian<\/p><p><span><u>Three Airports Opt Into Trump Administration\u2019s New Private Airport Security Model<\/u><\/span>, by Jenna Monnin<\/p><p><span><u>Trump Sidesteps SCOTUS With New Tariffs<\/u><\/span>, by Violet Jira<\/p><h2><b>NOT US<\/b><\/h2><ul><li><span><u>Marco Rubio Takes Aim at Globalists and the Left<\/u><\/span>, by Ishaan Tharoor for The New Yorker<\/li><li><span><u>How Trump Is Getting Richer in Office<\/u><\/span>, by Andrea Fuller, Daniel Wood and Ben Protess for The New York Times<\/li><li><span><u>Metro tried to make bus service better. Somehow, ridership and speeds are both down.<\/u><\/span> By Rachel Weiner for The 51st<\/li><\/ul><p><b>Thank you for reading!<\/b> If you liked this edition of the NOTUS Newsletter, please forward it to a friend. If this newsletter was shared with you, please <span><u>sign up<\/u><\/span> \u2014 it\u2019s free! Have a tip? Email us at <span><u>tips@notus.com<\/u><\/span>. And as always, we\u2019d love to hear your thoughts at <span><u>newsletters@notus.com<\/u><\/span>.<\/p><p>The newsletter was produced by Thomas Burr, Brett Bachman and Andrew Burton. Photo by Jason Dick\/AP.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1665\">Mike Johnson is \u2018Sick of This Shit\u2019 (But Sorry He Said So)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s notice: White House reporters defend their big dinner. Maine Democrats hope for some stability. 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