Today in Trumpworld -- June 26

TRUMP’S SCHEDULE:

10:30 a.m.: President Donald Trump will receive his daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office.


1 p.m.: Trump will have lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the presidential dining room.

3:35 p.m.: Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India to the White House.

3:55 p.m.: Trump and Modi meet in the Oval Office.

4:15 p.m.: Trump leads an expanded bilateral meeting with Modi in the Cabinet Room.

5:15 p.m.: Trump and Modi deliver joint statements in the Rose Garden.

6 p.m.: Trump and Modi have dinner, joined by the First Lady.

7:30 p.m.: Trump and Melania Trump bid farewell to Modi.

OTHER HAPPENINGS: Press secretary Sean Spicer will brief the press off-camera at the White House at 1:30 p.m.

HEALTH CARE UPDATE: From the New York Times’ Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan: “Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their health care bill as opposition continued to build inside and outside Congress, and as several Republican senators questioned whether it would be approved this week. President Trump expressed confidence that the bill to repeal the guts of the Affordable Care Act would pass. ‘Health care is a very, very tough thing to get,’ Mr. Trump said in an interview shown Sunday on Fox News. ‘But I think we’re going to get it. We don’t have too much of a choice because the alternative is the dead carcass of Obamacare.’ With Democrats solidly opposed to the legislation, Senate Republicans must find the votes from within. They can afford to lose only two votes, but five Republican senators have announced that they cannot support the health care bill as drafted, and others have expressed concerns.”



TRUMP POLITICAL GROUP FLEXES MUSCLE: From POLITICO’s Alex Isenstadt: “A new campaign by top White House allies targeting the GOP’s most vulnerable senator over health care sends a loud message to those resistant to the Trump agenda: We’re coming after you. America First Policies, a White House-backed outside group led by the president’s top campaign advisers, has launched a $1 million attack against Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), who on Friday announced that he opposed the Senate’s recently unveiled Obamacare repeal plan. That included a Twitter and digital ad campaign targeting the senator, including a video that accuses him of ‘standing with’ House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a reviled figure in conservative circles. ‘Unacceptable,’ the video says. ‘If you’re opposed to this bill, we’re opposed to you.’ America First Policies is set to expand its campaign early this week with TV ads that will go after the Nevada senator. The offensive is aimed at both punishing Heller and at swaying his vote, and it is a stunning act of political retaliation against a member of the president’s own party — one who faces a perilous path to re-election in 2018. Senior Republicans, many of whom are deeply worried about Heller’s political standing and increasingly nervous about the midterms, were shocked and spent the weekend measuring the possible fallout.”

IVANKA AND POLITICS: From POLITICO’s Louis Nelson: “Ivanka Trump may keep an office in the White House and hold an official position within her father’s administration, but when it comes to politics, the first daughter said in an interview that aired Monday that she tries to stay out of President Donald Trump’s way. ‘I try to stay out of politics. His political instincts are phenomenal. He did something that no one could have imagined he'd be able to accomplish,’ the first daughter told Fox News’s ‘Fox & Friends’ in response to a question about her father’s oft-controversial Twitter habit. ‘I feel blessed just being part of the ride from day one and before. But he did something pretty remarkable. But I don't profess to be a political savant.’”



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