White House working on dealing with a 2027/2028 Democratic US House Majority….

“The White House Counsel’s Office is giving private briefings to the administration’s political appointees on how to best prepare for congressional oversight as staff begin to brace for the likelihood of significant Democratic victories in the November midterm elections,” the Washington Post reports.

“The roughly 30-minute briefings have included a PowerPoint presentation about how congressional oversight works and best practices for handling it… Staff from the counsel’s office have encouraged political appointees to be careful about what they put in writing and provided guidance for how to respond to congressional inquiries in a timely manner.”

Said one White House official: “It’s obvious to everyone that it’s very likely. It was a sober-eyed conversation.”…..

Republican Bonus…..

Trump’s approval rating on the economy dropped 8 percentage points between March and April in The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Though a majority of Republicans still had a positive view of Trump’s economic moves, that number dropped from 74 percent to 62 percent in the last month, a stark change from the president’s base.

Democrats have already sought to make the midterms a referendum on the president and his party.

“The Democrats are going to say, ‘This is about Trump. Forget about who we are. Forget about our platform or issues. This is just about what the president is,’” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, explained.

“The Republicans are going to have to somehow distance themselves from some of those policies while still coming up with other ideas for why voters should vote for them as opposed to just continuing on with the Trump policies,” Kimball said, “and I think they’re in a tough place.”

The president has also seen his approval ratings impacted by other issues during the first half of his second term in office, including his immigration policy and, more recently, the war in Iran. The international conflict is already being felt at the gas pumps amid surging energy prices….

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Democrats need to net just three seats to flip the House this fall and four seats to take the Senate. And their chances of those gains appear to be growing as Trump’s approval rating falters. ….

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One anonymous White House official told MS NOW, in an article shared over the weekend, that “the vibe right now is we know we are already cooked in the midterms.” …..

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