TRUMP ON SCHUMER, SPEAKER JOHNSON, AND “HARD NO” REPUBLICANS. No matter what else President Donald Trump has on his to-do list — negotiate peace in Ukraine, impose or not impose tariffs, ride herd on the Department of Government Efficiency — there is still a huge question in his near future: What about the Big Beautiful Bill? Some version of a reconciliation measure has to pass Congress for Trump’s 2017 tax cuts to be extended, for money for a border wall to be approved, for energy production — a lot of things that are important to the Trump agenda.

It was on the president’s mind during a lunchtime conversation at the White House on Tuesday, even after spending the morning negotiating Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But before getting to the big bill, there was the matter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has had to cancel his book tour to avoid facing protesters angry about his acquiescence to a Republican spending bill.