The Fed's "dot plot" is causing more grief because as the central bank trims forward guidance from its statement (a consensus document), the dots are bound to get more attention, even though the dots aren't really a product designed to show the consensus wsj.com/articles/fed-o…

Pres­i­dent Trump’s news con­fer­ence with Brazil­ian Pres­i­dent Jair Bol­sonaro on Tues­day again put on dis­play an ap­proach to diplo­macy that prizes per­son­al­i­ties. By ⁦Andy Duehren⁩ wsj.com/articles/like-…

"It also represents a test case in whether a divided capital awash in trivial controversies and angry Twitter-fests can manage a serious debate on an important policy idea." wsj.com/articles/gas-t… via The Wall Street Journal

Progressive? Pragmatist? Socialist? Democratic presidential candidates split over how to address their party’s increasingly vocal liberal base, w/ Reid J. Epstein on.wsj.com/2CpE779

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that "countless members of the FBI" had indicated they did not support Comey. She later told Mueller's team that her comment was "not founded on anything," according to the report. wsj.com/livecoverage/m…

New: Armed with hundreds of pages of new revelations of Trump’s efforts to curtail and restrict Mueller, Dems face the politically risky decision of what to do next: Use it to campaign against Trump or try to impeach him first. W/⁦Siobhan Hughes⁩ wsj.com/articles/democ…

And it was Trump, via Twitter, not Cain, who announced that Cain was bowing out

“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. BIG new story from ⁦Alex Leary⁩ & Brody Mullins wsj.com/articles/washi…

‘When you get a good lender, that’s the last person you want to throw out.’ wsj.com/articles/charl… via The Wall Street Journal

“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington’s largest lobbyist, and worsened its troubles. A great inside Washington story by Brody Mullins and Alex Leary wsj.com/articles/washi… via The Wall Street Journal

The Trump administration completed its rule requiring drugmakers to include list prices for most drugs in television ads, pushing ahead with efforts to improve transparency in health-care costs despite opposition from pharmaceutical companies. wsj.com/articles/drug-…

A wrenching portrait of the border from @acaldwellwsj: one father and daughter were placed for days in a concrete cell with sink and toylet-no bed. The facility was built for single men to stay hours, not days wsj.com/articles/not-b…

The Senate brought back to life a long dormant export-finance agency. wsj.com/articles/senat…

Trump says he’s sending a “relatively small” 1,500 troops to the Middle East for “mostly protective” purposes to counter Iran. wsj.com/articles/trump…

Pence team & other senior Trump advisers want to force immediate action on USMCA. But Lighthizer warns that the last time a GOP prez jammed a Dem-controlled House on a trade pact, they lost the Colombia deal in 2008. The speaker at the time: Nancy Pelosi. wsj.com/articles/trump…

At a private meeting in the West Wing yesterday to discuss strategies on USMCA, Pence stunned some biz executives by rehashing the Trump-Pelosi meltdown from Wednesday. “It really wasn’t the time or place,” one participant said. wsj.com/articles/trump…

Citing threat from Iran, the Trump administration is sidestepping Congress to green light $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE, with side deals for Jordan, Israel and others. Democratic lawmakers are outraged. wsj.com/articles/trump…

Good read here by @chadsday on Julian Castro's breakout performance at the first Democratic debate

SCOTUS Ruling Effectively Prevents Citizenship Question for Now; Court Says Trump Admin’s Stated Reason for Citizenship Question Appears “Contrived," via @jessbravin.bsky.social Brent Kendall on.wsj.com/2NwnsXV

Court says Trump administration’s explanations for question don’t match evidence ⁦Brent Kendall⁩ ⁦@jessbravin.bsky.social⁩ wsj.com/articles/supre…