The Daily Brief
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Good morning. The [California Democratic Party backed Prop. 40, a 5% billionaire tax for healthcare, despite heavy pushback from Newsom and labor leaders](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-08-02/california-democratic-party-endorses-prop-40-billionaire-tax).
Trump's tariff regime is hammering working-class communities in northern Michigan, where parts of northern Michigan face financial pain with zero political relief — their congressman stays silent while the administration unilaterally applied tariffs to 60 global trading partners, invoking presidential power to block goods made with slave labor.
[Republicans are beginning to panic, according to a CNN report, as a major rift appears to be growing between President Donald Trump and a top party leader at a time when everyone needs to lock in for the midterms, with both men gone radio silent](https://www.alternet.org/trump-midterms-2677647723). Meanwhile, [Democratic strategist James Carville said if left-wing streamer Hasan Piker shapes himself into a force within the Democratic Party, "I'm out of here."](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6004598-carville-piker-democratic-party-split) In Twin Falls, Idaho, the suspect in an In-N-Out shooting that killed three died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.