White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow has not been involved in negotiations on a new coronavirus relief package.

THE WHITE HOUSE seems to expect negotiations on a new coronavirus relief package to start after July 4.

Still: this is a notable comment as you take in the fire-hydrant spray of information -- good and bad -- that emanates from the White House.

FWIW: MURIEL BOWSER’S Black Lives Matter painting on 16th Street, NW near the White House made the front page of the L.A.

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WHITE HOUSE MOVES: AMY SWONGER, who held the Senate portfolio for the White House leg affairs shop, is taking over as acting director of leg affairs.

CASSIDY HUTCHINSON, who was also in the leg affairs shop, is now a special assistant to the president and coordinator for legislative affairs in the COS’ office.

… Karoline Leavitt is now an assistant White House press secretary.

She most recently was associate director in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence.

NANCY COOK: “Trump plans a ‘recovery summer’ message against a bleak backdrop”.

… AP: “Barr says he didn’t give tactical order to clear protesters,” by Michael Balsamo: “Attorney General William Barr says law enforcement officers were already moving to push back protesters from a park in front of the White House when he arrived there Monday evening, and he says he did not give a command to disperse the crowd, though he supported the decision.

amid Bowser, White House feud,” by Josh Dawsey and Fenit Nirappil: “A lobbyist with ties to President Trump ended his relationship with the District of Columbia Friday as tensions grew between the president and Mayor Muriel E.

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“Four years later, they’re heaping praise on the Vermont senator and his top brass for their efforts to put Joe Biden in the White House.

PHOTO DU JOUR: Demonstrators protest in the rain on Friday near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd.

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-- “Guardian of the Glaciers,” by Alex Basaraba in The American Scholar’s summer issue: “As climate change threatens the future of the Himalayas, might the mountains’ salvation lie in endowing them with legal rights?” American Scholar.

TRANSITIONS -- James Hewitt will rejoin the EPA on Monday as associate administrator for public affairs.

He most recently was a senior adviser in the State Department’s Bureau of Global Public Affairs.

… Laura Schlapp is now director of regional media for Vice President Mike Pence.

Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) is 61 … Eric Cantor is 57 … Weijia Jiang, CBS News White House correspondent (h/t husband Luther Lowe) … twin brothers Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman are 45 … NBC’s Natalie Morales is 48 ...

Ward Baker … Michael Goldfarb … Margaret White, co-executive director of No Labels (h/ts Liz Morrison and Jon Haber) ...

Max Docksey, RNC target state director (h/t fiancé Cassie Smedile) … Justin Sink, Bloomberg White House correspondent, is 33 ...

Katherine Faulders, White House and Capitol Hill reporter at ABC News ...

Anna Epstein, associate director at Finsbury, is 29 ...

… Kevin Liptak, CNN White House reporter (h/t Kevin Bohn) … AIPAC’s Allie Freedman ..

Jordan Finkelstein, ad traffic manager for Joe Biden’s campaign … Leah Abrams … Vanessa Bajko, legislative correspondent for Sen

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