The Daily 202's Big Idea

The anti-Trump movement inside the Republican Party — long a political wasteland — is feeling new urgency to mount a credible opposition to Trump before it’s too late.

When President Trump targeted mental illness as the cause of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that killed 31 people, federal health officials made sure no government experts might contradict him.

The White House is eyeing a temporary cut in the payroll tax as one way to stave off the looming recession. The talks are still in their early stages and have included a range of other tax breaks.

With the pace of mass shootings accelerating — and their tolls dramatically increasing — criminologists and reform advocates are more intently focused on limiting access to high-capacity magazines as one of the most potent ways to curb the epidemic.

President Trump has pushed top aides to investigate whether the U.S. government can purchase the giant ice-covered island of Greenland.