Overview
- Ocasio-Cortez, in a Monday Capitol Hill interview, said she would rather see President Trump on a golf course and argued that doubts about his role in the Situation Room raise 25th Amendment questions.
- Her comments pointed to a Wall Street Journal report that aides kept Trump out of minute-by-minute updates during the rescue of two downed U.S. airmen in Iran because they believed his impatience would not help.
- The White House pushed back, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Trump remained the steady leader the country needs and praising the operation’s goal.
- Rep. Jamie Raskin last week filed a bill to create a bipartisan commission to evaluate a president’s capacity under Section 4, a proposal backed by roughly 50 House Democrats.
- Any attempt to remove a sitting president under Section 4 would require Vice President J.D. Vance and a majority of the cabinet to act and then two-thirds of both chambers to uphold it if contested, a threshold Jen Psaki said is not likely.