Same edition reports Iran truce, Mississippi Senate bid
The newsletter attributed those price pressures to tariffs raising the cost of imported goods, the war with Iran sending oil and diesel prices soaring, and immigration restrictions shrinking the labor force. The White House theory, the newsletter said, underestimated how much of President Trump’s agenda would contribute to those same pressures, even as it relied on a fiscal restraint that never materialized.
The same edition reported that President Trump rejected a truce proposal from Tehran. Negotiators are pressing Iran to make a concession on its nuclear program to revive ceasefire talks with the U.S., the newsletter reported.
In Democratic Party strategy, the newsletter reported that some party officials and donors are starting to size up the potential of once-unthinkable Deep South Senate seats. Inspired by recent Democratic success in places like Georgia, some party figures see Scott Colom’s long-shot Mississippi Senate bid as a down payment for future victory in a state with a large Black population.
The newsletter said President Trump was scheduled Monday to take part in three policy meetings and to make an announcement at 2 p.m. ET.
The same edition also reported that Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei dined with Trump at the White House on Sunday. The meeting came weeks after Amodei publicly called for leading U.S. AI companies to slow the pace of development. The Trump administration has been critical of Anthropic and its push to increase oversight of AI models, while Trump has championed U.S. progress in advanced AI, the newsletter noted. Sunday’s gathering could represent an opportunity for the startup to improve its relationship with the administration, the newsletter assessed.