Let's delve deeper now into the political headline shaping this week so far with today's Politics Monday duo.

That's Tamara Keith of NPR and Jasmine Wright, White House correspondent for notice.

Amy Walter is away this evening.

It's good to see you both.

So, Tam, we spent all last week talking about how the latest primaries show President Trump's grip on the GOP.

This latest development where he is now tabling,

at least for now, this $1.8 billion compensation fund for his supporters,

it really shows the limits of his influence over congressional Republicans in many ways.

Well, in some ways, his great victory in defeating Republicans who were not loyal enough now creates a larger,

what in PR we're calling, YOLO caucus.

You only lose once, and then you are a little bit more free to do whatever you want after that.

But it's not just them.

There's a large number of Republicans. Ted Cruz on his

podcast said something like 20 Republicans in a closed door meeting with Todd Blanche were pushing

back really hard on this so-called anti-weaponization fund. And the bigger issue is that there are

very few Republicans, very few, who want to go out into swing districts and campaign on this or have to answer for it.

And so there is a very big political problem for this fund, which is why you see this quiet backing away, though it's not clear.

Like, until the Truth social post is out and

until the president says it with his own mouth, it's not clear really whether they're doing

anything more than following what a judge says they need to do for the next two weeks.

What's your latest reporting on this?

Yeah, backing away for how long I think is kind of the question that not just we at news that are asking, but folks on the Hill are starting to ask. We know, according to my colleagues at notice, that the president met with Speaker Mike Johnson today at the White House. And an issue like this was raised. Obviously, you know, I think for a long time, Republicans, particularly John Thune, has been saying that

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