Healthcare
- Trump says no healthcare vote until after 2020 election (BBC)
- Donald Trump Just Backed Down on Health Care After His Whole Party Revolted by Jordan Weissmann (Slate)
- Trump defers push for health plan after GOP resists idea by Lisa Mascaro and Catherine Lucey (AP)
- Trump abandons plan for pre-election vote on health care after talking to McConnell by John Wagner and Erica Werner (Washington Post)
- Americans Have Had to Borrow $88 Billion to Cover Health Care Costs in the Past Year by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
- Congressional Panel: Consumers Shouldn’t Have To Solve Surprise Medical Bill Problem by Rachel Bluth (NPR)
- Trump Backs Off Obamacare Replacement After Top GOP Leader Nixes The Idea by Brian Naylor (NPR)
Puerto Rico
- Trump Tears Into Puerto Rico, Falsely Claims It Has Received $91 Billion in Aid by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump accuses ‘grossly incompetent’ Puerto Rican politicians of misusing federal hurricane aid by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump Is Still Whining About Having to Help Puerto Rico by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- Trump claims Puerto Rico received $91 billion in aid following Hurricane Maria. It didn’t. by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
Border
- Trump waiting on possible border closure by Jill Colvin and Colleen Long (AP)
- White House Dials Back President Trump’s Threat to Close Mexican Border by Jill Colvin, Colleen Long (TIME)
- Trump Vows to Close Border, Even if It Hurts the Economy by Jim Tankersley, Ana Swanson (New York Times)
- Trump’s aides warn him border shutdown would be disastrous by Nancy Cook, Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- Trump steps back from Mexico border threat as companies warn of economic fallout by Steve Holland, Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
- Trump Is Threatening To Close The Border And Nobody Knows If He’s Serious by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
Mueller Report
- Democratic-led House panel authorizes subpoenas for Mueller report, evidence by David Morgan (Reuters)
- House Judiciary Approves Subpoena For Full Mueller Report In Party-Line Vote by Tim Mak (NPR)
- Trump changes tune on public release of Mueller report by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Comey says he fears possible counterinvestigation after Mueller report by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
Other News
- Trump’s plan to bypass Congress on trade with Japan by Bruce Hirsh (Politico)
- House Oversight votes to subpoena ex-White House official in security clearance probe by Morgan Chalfant and Olivia Beavers (The Hill)
- Whose Court Is This Anyway? Immigration judges accuse executive branch of politicizing their courts by Lorelei Laird (ABA Journal)
- Eric Trump Slams Washington Post For Story On Trump Golf Course’s Delinquent Tax Payments by David Moye (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- Why Trump Hasn’t Seen A Post-Mueller Boost In The Polls by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- Too Many Democrats Are Running in 2020, According to Science by Lilly Kofler (Politico)
- Will John Roberts Block the Triumph of Legal Conservatism? by Garrett Epps (Atlantic)
Opinion
- The Government had to Approve This Op-Ed by Mark Fallon (NY Times)
- Trump’s new Puerto Rico hate-tweets rest on a very ugly premise by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)