Welcome to Monday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Can you cope with good news? It may be that the national beef herd is on the road to recovery after five years of shrinkage. It is too early to see the price of supermarket ground beef getting back to 2020 levels, but at least things may have stopped getting worse. Plus, we have the latest on who’s up and who’s down in the race to be Donald Trump’s next press secretary.

The American beef herd is the smallest it has been for 75 years, driving up prices at the supermarket.