Sunday, May 25th. You've been following the redecoration of the White House as closely as one

particular member of my team has. Maybe something that caught your eye over the past week.

Take a look at this. Sean McRish, a White House correspondent for the New York Times,

posted this photo of a new piece of art that recently went up in the West Wing. It's a painting

of Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln and the American flag depicted right behind him.

The painting itself isn't what's interesting about this. Unlike most of his predecessors, Donald

Trump has not been shy about putting up images of

himself all over the White House. Over the years, he's repeatedly compared himself to Lincoln.

In fact, as we speak, there's a giant banner of Donald Trump's face hanging on the front of a

government building overlooking the National Mall right alongside a similar banner with Lincoln's

image. What's particularly interesting about this new

portrait in the West Wing is the inclusion of Ronald Reagan. And the fact that it surfaced on the

same day that Republican lawmakers in the House passed Trump's one big beautiful bill, the multi-trillion

dollar tax and spending package that's basically a revival of Reagan's trickle-down economics.

The reconciliation package was passed in the House by the narrowest of margins, 215 to 214.

The bill is a blueprint for a massive upward transfer of wealth that will worsen the

social income inequalities that we've already been dealing with in America for decades, by the way.

This seeks to extend Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which benefit the richest people in the

uppermost tiers of the economy the most. And in order to offset the estimated $4 trillion or more

that those tax cuts will cost over the next decade, this bill is going to slash funding

for social safety net programs that exist to help low-income Americans. Medicaid would see

upwards of $700 billion in cuts that could lead to 8.6 million people losing health care coverage.

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