Native American Veterans Event
- Trump drops ‘Pocahontas’ jibe to Native American veterans (BBC)
- Donald Trump Honors Navajo World War II Veterans by Calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Trump’s Most Egregious ‘Pocahontas’ Joke Yet by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump uses ‘Pocahontas’ slur in address to Native American veterans by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Yes, Trump Just Made a Pocahontas Joke to Navajo Code Talkers by Lauren Messman (VICE)
- Warren tears into Trump for ‘Pocahontas’ crack at event honoring Native Americans by Elliot Smilowitz (The Hill)
Tax Bill
- Tax Bill Will Be Altered in “Mathematical” Way, Announces President Who Definitely Has a Grasp of All Its Details by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- CBO: the Senate Republican tax bill takes billions from the poor by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
- The Hill’s Whip List: Where Republicans stand on Senate tax bill (The Hill)
- The key Republican senators to watch in the tax bill showdown by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Senate GOP making last-ditch changes to tax plan by Seung Min Kim, Colin Wilhelm, Bernie Becker (Politico)
- Senators Scramble to Advance Tax Bill That Increasingly Rewards Wealthy by Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, and Thomas Kaplan (NY Times)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Mulvaney Shows Up For Work At Consumer Watchdog Group, As Leadership Feud Deepens by Scott Neuman, Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- Mick Mulvaney To CFPB Staff: ‘Disregard’ Instructions From Ex-Chief’s Appointed Acting Director by Patrick Rucker (Huffington Post)
- US consumer agency’s acting director sues Trump as CFPB dispute heats up by Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
- Why Did Trump Pick The Same Person To Run Two Major Agencies? by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney Puts Hiring Freeze on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by Ken Sweet, Catherine Lucey (TIME)
- Crisis at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Confusion and chaos engulf consumer agency by Lorraine Woellert (Politico)
Russia
- A visual guide to the key events in the Trump-Russia scandal by Zack Beauchamp, Javier Zarracina, Ryan Mark, and Amanda Northrop (Vox)
News
- Trump: Media should get ‘fake news trophy’ for its distorted ‘coverage of your favorite President (me)’ by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Trump: Media should compete for ‘FAKE NEWS TROPHY’ by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Trump’s Sinister Attacks on CNN by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- Keystone’s existing pipeline spills far more than predicted to regulators by Valerie Volcovici, Richard Valdmanis (Reuters)
- White House ethics lawyer resigns by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- A conservative group tried to plant a fake Roy Moore allegation in the Washington Post. It failed. by Jen Kirby (Vox)
- ‘Access Hollywood’ fires back at Trump: ‘The tape is very real’ by Jaqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
Analysis
- Tillerson and Trump wreak havoc at State: It’s a right-wing tradition by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Trump’s Rejection of Observable Reality by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- There’s a big math problem with the FCC chairman’s main argument for repealing net neutrality by Steve Kovach (Business Insider)
- Odds Are, Russia Owns Trump by Michelle Goldberg (NY Times)