Said Trump: “I originally thought I’d do it for $2 or $3 million. Just do a base. But now we are fixing up the exterior of it so we will probably be in it for less than $20 million.”

Just for members: The latest Inside Elections.

This issue includes a deep dive into one of the most important Senate races in the country: Maine.

Overall, 68% of adults said they opposed spending taxpayer money on security upgrades for the ballroom. A striking 57% oppose it strongly.

Just 21% of adults said they support it.

Said Martin: “I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced. After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize.”

CNN obtained and published the report earlier today and then the DNC released it as well.

Said Trump: “He’d like me to go, but it’s going to be just a small little private affair, and I’m going to try and make it.”

He added: “This is not good timing for me. Everything called Iran and other things.”

Said Trump: “I didn’t like what I was seeing.”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), quoted by NewsNation.

Senate Republicans are furious about President Trump’s plan for a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who believe they were targeted by the government. Senators want to put restrictions on the fund as part of the reconciliation bill, which funds ICE and CBP.

The House is expected to send members home as well.

“In response to the same worries, ‘many’ officials during last month’s policy meeting called for the Fed to drop its easing bias and signal its next move could be an interest-rate increase, according to a record of the gathering.”

“The order will give the Office of the National Cyber Director, which sits within the White House and oversees cybersecurity coordination in the government, and other agencies two months to develop a process for evaluating the models, the people said. The goal is for the government to identify any security vulnerabilities revealed by A.I. models and to patch problems in its systems to help protect banks, utilities and other sensitive industries from cyberattacks.”

The leaked DNC autopsy report includes plenty of brutal findings about why Democrats lost the 2024 election.

But the most devastating conclusion is also the simplest: Republicans are just better at politics.

Here are the takeaways.

The Washington Post reports the DNC officially released the report once it had leaked to CNN.

“No participant is deemed too insignificant—down to the man who drove a tractor through a border fence that day. Nearly two years after he breached the border, the tractor driver was identified, located and blown up in an airstrike as he walked a narrow urban street in Gaza, according to footage released by Israel’s military.”

“The election this fall may come down to which version of Platner voters think is real: the man with the tattoo and Reddit posts, or the one who channeled his frustrations into a vision for change… He doesn’t want to join the Senate to be part of a system. He wants to rip that system apart and build a better one. But that, he acknowledges, requires a leap of faith for voters to believe that he won’t betray their values and has truly transformed.”

“It is not the Guards as an organization that is exerting control, they say, but a hardened “band of brothers,” whose seminal experience was the brutal, eight-year war between Iran and Iraq that began in 1980.”

— President Trump, on Fox News.