INSIDE D.C. WITH JOHN GIZZI NEWSMAX WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
BESHEAR EYES WHITE HOUSE • Democrats insist it is a “done deal” that Gov. Andy Beshear will lay the groundwork to run for president in 2028 and make it offi cial as soon as his second term in the Kentucky Statehouse ends in ’27. The son of a former governor and a middle-of- the-road Democrat, Beshear is known for his ability to win in a state where Republicans hold nearly every other statewide offi ce. This year, he will become
chairman of the National Governors Association — the same perch from which fellow moderate and then- Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton laid the groundwork in the late 1980s for his winning White House bid in 1992.
LABOR DEPT IN CONSERVATIVE HANDS • Donald Trump supporters were stunned and disappointed when the president named Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer secretary of labor. Strongly backed by Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien (who kept his union neutral in the 2024 election), Chavez- DeRemer had supported the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would have scuttled 27 states’ right-to-work laws. (She now says she opposes it.) But sources at the
Labor Department say that conservatives should be
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assuaged by the subsequent nomination of Keith Sonderling as deputy secretary of labor. Sonderling, a past head
of the Wage and Hour Division at the Labor Department and former member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is a strong conservative with no ties to unions.
ORBÁN GETS ANTSY • Sources close to Viktor Orbán privately tell Newsmax that the Hungarian prime minister is growing increasingly irked that Donald Trump has not named an ambassador to Budapest after nearly six months. Despite the president’s public praise of Orbán and the analogies often made between the Hungarian and U.S. leaders, Orbán reportedly feels that the failure to appoint a permanent successor to Joe Biden’s David Pressman (with whom the prime minister publicly clashed) will be interpreted as a loss of confi dence in his government by Trump. Among names mentioned are Bryan Leib, a former congressional candidate from Florida and senior fellow at the Budapest- based conservative think tank Center for Fundamental Rights (and a vociferous Orbán defender in social media), and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, one of the
earliest elected offi cials to endorse Trump in 2016.
ENVOYS IN SHORT SUPPLY • Hungary isn’t the only country complaining that Donald Trump has not sent it an ambassador. With South Korea just
fi nished with a grueling removal of its president over an attempted eff ort to declare martial law and a fresh presidential election pending, Trump had been expected to name
former Rep. Michelle Park Steel, R.-CA, the fi rst Korean American congresswoman, as his envoy to Seoul. But after more than
four months, there has been no appointment. Meanwhile, with tensions fl aring between India and Pakistan, Trump has yet to name an ambassador to either country. And no less than eight African nations are still waiting for a U.S. ambassador to be sent to their capital.
Warsh Tipped As Next Fed Chair
POWELL
• Donald Trump backed away from his controversial suggestion that he would fi re Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. But it is taken for granted in Washington that the president will replace Powell (whom he fi rst appointed as chairman in 2018) when his term expires next May. It is also a forgone conclusion
WARSH
he will tap Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor and close friend of Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to be the 17th Fed chair. Warsh raised
a few eyebrows in April when he lashed out at Fed policies, saying that the 112-year-old U.S. central bank has put the economy on a “dangerous trajectory” by making it easier for Congress to appropriate more tax dollars knowing that “government fi nancing costs would be subsidized by the central bank.” Warsh, a former top mergers and acquisitions
offi cer at Morgan Stanley, is the son-in-law of cosmetics tycoon and Trump pal Ronald Lauder.
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