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To stem the rise in veteran suicides, Veterans Affairs officials say a cultural shift on mental health issues is required.

While several government agencies have instituted various programs to aid veterans suffering from mental health problems, 20 veterans a day are dying from suicide. In addition to new projects and a government-wide suicide prevention task force launched in March, VA officials believe elevating the conversation to the national level may help turn the tide.

"People are afraid to even say the word 'suicide,' it's scary for them to talk about it," Dr. Lisa Kearney, the associate director of the VA Center for Integrated Healthcare, told the Washington Examiner.

Kearney and her colleagues believe asking the hard questions, checking in with those at risk, and even engaging in conversation are important steps toward an effective solution.

Approximately 45,000 people die from suicide every year in the United States, but the rate for veterans is 1.5 times higher than for the civilian population. The latest VA data show that both groups saw drastic increases in suicides between 2005 and 2016, with the veteran rate increasing by nearly 26% and the civilian rate by almost 21%.

Of the 20 veterans dying from suicide each day on average, only six have been cared for by the VA in some capacity. In an effort to reach the other 14, the VA wants to work more closely with the Pentagon, community groups, and faith-based organizations so veterans are aware of the services available to them. Part of the plan includes just getting the word out.

"This wave is crashing in on all of the us in the United States and globally, and we simply will not have any success in any level until ... we finally have a national conversation about life," Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a speech to a suicide prevention conference in Nashville last week.

In addition to spreading awareness, the VA has instituted several programs for veterans suffering from mental health problems. Its Veterans Crisis Line operates 24/7 and can assign vets to counseling services as needed. It has also launched a website, MakeTheConnection.net, where vets share personal stories about how they have coped with suicidal thoughts. Kearney said the department is coordinating with seven state and 24 city governments to provide education and awareness on what services are available to vets locally through the VA and community organizations.

Veterans Affairs leaders also want to institute a cultural shift. Wilkie noted that many veterans belong to a generation that never talked about these issues, instead repressing their mental health concerns until it was too late. It's a significant problem, considering male veterans aged 55 and older have the highest suicide rate. Changing the negative connotations surrounding suicide is a key objective on the way toward a solution.

"The more that we normalize it out in the community, the more it normalizes the discussion within our systems, which I think is helpful," Kearney said. "The more we talked about cancer, it became normal. And it became a thing that we all fought together in public health. That's what we need to be doing with suicides, too."

The VA's new strategy comes in the wake of a string of scandals in 2014, which led to the resignation of several senior leaders, an FBI criminal investigation, and a White House inquiry. The department's struggles continued after Trump took office in 2017, with Secretary David Shulkin being fired via tweet after less than two months on the job. Wilkie and former VA chief of staff Peter O'Rourke served as acting secretaries until Wilkie was confirmed on July 30, 2018.

Wilkie's tenure has seen a string of veteran suicides on VA campuses, the latest occurring in the visitor's parking lot of a medical center in North Carolina in August. Nearly 30 veterans have died from suicide on VA medical facilities in the past two years. At least some of the suicides appear to have been in protest of the infamously poor service some veterans have experienced with the VA.

Steven Pressley, 28, shot himself in the parking lot of a VA hospital in Dublin, Georgia, in April after suffering from chronic back pain for years.

"I know my son well enough to know if he did this in a VA parking lot, he did it for notice," Michelle Wilson, Pressley's mother, said. "Something needs to change."

Some of the VA's suicide prevention programs have shown promise. A study of VA emergency rooms found patients who received follow-up care after suicide attempts exhibited 45% fewer suicidal behaviors. Kearney believes that simply checking in with those at risk could yield major results, but that requires community engagement.

"I think in society today, sometimes we really look at trying to respect people's autonomy. You can still respect people's autonomy while also being kind [and] supportive," she said. "If we can be proactive [in] looking after the people around us, that can be life changing."

By Russ Read

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Ayanna Pressley Torches Steve Mnuchin

"Critics have slammed the Trump administration over a delay in plans to redesign the $20 bill to feature anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, dismissing officials' claims that a push for "security" improvements was behind the slowdown.

After he was asked whether the Trump administration was still on track to meet the $20 bill's 2020 redesign deadline, which was established under the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Representative Ayanna Pressley that the new bill was unlikely to come out until 2028, citing "security features" around U.S. currency.

"The primary reason we've looked at redesigning the currency is for counterfeiting issues. Based upon this, the $20 bill will now not come out until 2028," Mnuchin said, before adding that the $10 and $50 bill would likely come out before then.

While Mnuchin maintained the delay in the $20 bill that would celebrate Tubman, who helped free dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad, came down to "security" issues, many have dismissed that justification as an excuse for what they say is a combination of racism and "deep-seated misogyny" at play.

"The white supremacists running this country are not about to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to have y'all contemplating racism and resistance every time y'all go to the ATM," said artist Bree Newsome Bass, who weighed in on Twitter.

"Y'all gonna get that good ol' agent of genocide Andrew Jackson," Newsome Bass said, referring to the seventh U.S. president, who is currently on the $20 bill."

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New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2021/04/06/budge-not-showing-leadership-pressley/

Budge not showing leadership - Pressley

Hearts were held to a goalless draw by Dunfermline Athletic on Saturday as their poor run of form continued

Hearts are being plagued by “a severe lack of leadership” at boardroom level, insists former captain Steven Pressley.

Robbie Neilson’s side are 10 points clear at the Scottish Championship summit but have failed to win their past four matches and were dumped out of the Scottish Cup by Highland League Brora Rangers, sparking a fan protest.

Pressley says chair Ann Budge is not showing “real leadership”.

“I’m passionate about this, about that club,” he told BBC Radio Scotland.

“It lacks steel, leadership, all of those things.

“There is a severe lack of leadership within the club at this present moment. In Ann I think you’ve got a really good woman and good person that wants the best for Hearts.

“But in my opinion she’s not showing real leadership just now. I even look at her statement that she madeexternal-link on the back of the disappointment at Brora. This was a time when I thought Robbie needed real support, If you read in-depth into the statement, she gave him no support.

“I’m looking at guys like Jim Jefferies who’s appointed to the board just now as an adviser, at a time where Robbie needs that support, that stability, that guy by his shoulder, I don’t see him, I don’t see it at all.”

‘Put money in unconditionally, or not at all’

Fans group Foundation of Hearts are due to take ownership of the club from Budge, who is to remain chair and chief executive.

The foundation revealed this month that “around 250” supporters had withdrawn their pledges, but that membership remained at roughly 8,100.

Group director Gary Halliday told BBC Scotland that “those figures are passed directly to the club”, and that “we don’t dilute any message… it’s passed on loud and clear”.

Pressley is “concerned” by the potential consequences of Hearts becoming fan-owned.

“You can’t have a situation where you’re putting money in, and then on the back of some disappointment you’re using that to lever the situation in the club. You either put the money in unconditionally, or not at all,” he said.

“Don’t come out and talk about it publicly. That’s not the way. How can a manager work in a club that is being run in that manner? That’s what worries me. Yes, they have a say, but it’s how [you use it].”

A number of fans protested as Hearts lost to Queen of the South last weekend in the Scottish Championship

The 47-year-old, who made over 250 Hearts appearances between 1998 and 2006, hopes former team-mate Neilson is backed properly should his side clinch their Premiership return.

“I do think he’ll gain promotion and I do think he deserves support to try and recruit in the summer,” Pressley added.

“Because the other aspect of it is that recruitment has – and I’m sure he’ll admit it – been poor.

“But he’s had to recruit without having [sporting director] Joe Savage within the club during that period. I know myself being a football manager, that if you’re doing your job correctly then it’s nigh-on impossible to do the recruitment.

“He needs that support, and after the summer he should be properly judged, without doubt.”

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#Repost @womenintheworld with @get_repost ・・・ The Trump administration says abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman will not be replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill after all. • Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s disbelief was palpable as she questioned Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on why the $10 and $50 notes will be rolled out as planned, but new imagery on the $20 is suddenly being delayed until 2028. • Over 600,000 people were surveyed in 2015 to choose which female hero of American history should be on the $20 in 2020, the year that marks the 100th year anniversary of women having the right to vote. As journalist Farhad Manjoo points out: “Trump wants to get Americans on the moon by 2024, but design problems will delay the Harriet Tubman $20 until 2028.” • #harriettubman #20dollarbill (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByDGkVUBttI/?igshid=1vppndo7qihwn

#repost #harriettubman #20dollarbill

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news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog · 6 years ago

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This photo of Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, and Tlaib from the Cohen hearing says it all

Michael Cohen's public testimony before Congress took place on Wednesday, but everyone's still talking about one badass photo of Democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.

The testimony included everything from Cohen discussing racist comments he's heard President Trump make in private, to checks written to cover up an affair with Stormy Daniels, and the Trump Tower Russia deal.

At one point, Getty Photographer Chip Somodevilla captured this powerful image of the three representatives, which has been widely shared online. As the photos show, these three women did not come to play, and it wasn't long before people became obsessed with the powerful shot.

Imagine this sight staring you downhttps://t.co/mFsAAvdNDl pic.twitter.com/hnSH9WWhtL

— The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) February 27, 2019

SEE ALSO: Michael Cohen's 'How many times' exchange is now the most relatable meme

Twitter users quickly did what they did best: Praised the photographs and turned them into badass memes. Behold.

What’s the name of their album? pic.twitter.com/9pX4FPMLSM

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 28, 2019

Good luck with that, Republicans. lol pic.twitter.com/A2Go3sbob3

— jœy (@FalconsFans_CHI) February 28, 2019

Alexandria, can you handle this? Ayanna, can you handle this? Rashida, can you handle this? I don't think they can handle this! pic.twitter.com/PtlnwLCpkY

— Nicole Gallucci (@nicolemichele5) February 28, 2019

The Power of Three will set you free. @AOC @AyannaPressley @RashidaTlaib https://t.co/8uApgsx0Nx

— Constance Elly (@ConStar24) February 27, 2019

10/10 would watch this movie. https://t.co/HXmrtH0jE4

— shura (@weareshura) February 28, 2019

@AOC @AyannaPressley @RashidaTlaib this picture is everything for me today.. pic.twitter.com/LT6gq1T9jd

— WBH (@wbh2cool) February 28, 2019

This is my favorite picture in a very long time. pic.twitter.com/cMuY8O3N9L

— steven pasquale (@StevePasquale) February 28, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez even addressed the photo on Twitter, writing "Welcome to @OversightDems."

Welcome to @OversightDems. https://t.co/s69m87sQy4

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 28, 2019

Hang it in the Louvre.

WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders' most ludicrous moments as press secretary

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votenet-blog · 6 years ago

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Michael Capuano: ‘It’s not me. It’s whoever was in office in a place that has progressives.’

Author: Christopher Gavin / Source: Boston.com

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano. –Steven Senne / AP

Outgoing U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano says he knew even before his eventual successor Ayanna Pressley challenged him in the September primary that this year’s election was going to be a tough one for him.

But he dismissed the notion that he was targeted by voters hungry for change during a WBUR interviewth…

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SFA must stop repeating the same old failures, says Steven Pressley

Like the man who arrived downstairs at Cameron House one morning after a game to find captain and keeper who had a drinking session with him to breakfast, Steven Pressley has seen the Scottish national team in a pretty bad way

What alerts the former Scotland coach of the first team about the current state of decline is noticing how the SFA stumbles aimlessly through yet another was doomed with about as much willingness as Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor shuffling to their beds that fateful spring day 10 years ago

Two games to a qualifying campaign for the European Championship – one of them the 3-0 humiliation by Kazakhstan – and the manager and entire supervisors are fired.

Carlisle United manager Steven Pressley is concerned about the apparent lack of a SFA plan "

Carlisle United manager Steven Pressley worries about the apparent lack of a plan

Carlisle United manager Steven Pressley is worried about the apparent lack of a plan

Alex McLeish was shown the door as Gordon Strachan and Craig Levein for him because of the results deemed to be not enough.

Perhaps it is ambitious to say that another will follow soon.

And the prospect of an in-house designation of species becomes driven, one that introduces Malky Mackay and Scot Gemmill to the hotseat.Whatever the outcome, the worrying fear of Pressley is that the appointment of another manager hoping to cause a revolution at Euro 2020, not l succeed in tackling long-term problems.

I am worried because I look back and see the same theme. This is the same process all over again, & # 39; said Pressley, who won 32 caps for Scotland.

& # 39; I think the SFA should take a long, hard look at itself. I don't see what the clear plan is. & # 39;

Strachan got a second chance and a new contract after finishing fourth in the Euro 2016 qualifying group – and then let go after a hugely encouraging undefeated series of six matches that came close to being in keep the 2018 World Cup alive.

The then chief executive Stewart Regan embarked on his unsuccessful pursuit of Northern Ireland's Michael O & # 39; Neill. The second McLeish, ruled by Rod Petrie and Alan McRae, has now stalled after 14 months.

& # 39; I think it is a bad decision to now mark Alex McLeish & # 39; s tasks, & # 39; said Pressley. & # 39; If you are going to appoint him, if it is done with the necessary diligence, you must support and support your husband.

& # 39; For me, the SFA needs to be set up for someone who has the time and enormous support to start bringing in players and stabilizing the team. We must show strength as an organization and say that this is the person who will bring us forward and this is the plan. & # 39; The events in Kazakhstan, on the opening night of a new qualifying group, revealed the reality that McLeish was not the right man to help Scotland move forward. Ian Maxwell and the board that Scotland had a better chance if the 60-year-old McLeish was not at the check.

Pressley suspects Scotland

& I feel that Gordon, of whom I am a strong advocate, did many good things & # 39 ;, added Pressley, now leading Carlisle United & # 39; s bid for promotion to League One in England. & # 39; He received a lot from his team.

& # 39; Those two campaigns were considered unsuccessful. No experience. Don't build. Yes, everyone wants to come there. It could have taken six years under Gordon. It could have taken eight.

& # 39; It may not have been this tournament, but the continuity and the ability to bring a number of young players to the fore? With Gordon I felt that there was a man with the right profile for that job. Someone who was a very passionate guy about the development of young players.

I think we have made some crazy decisions. The only thing that happens in Scotland is: putting a manager in his place, getting bad results, firing him. The same process again. It has been that way for the past 20 years. There were opportunities to continue. Yet there seems to be none of that. "

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Pressley takes an admiring look further south of his Cumbrian base on FA's work in building confidence in Gareth Southgate after

There is also jealousy for Pressley de Scotland -fan because England stumbled quite a bit about their sudden pursuit of stability.

The four-game audition for the role of head coach in England. appointment of the Under-21 coach who knew all about age, structure and possession a passion for player development came after a 67-day government of Sam Allardyce and a disastrous 2016 Roy Hodgson-led Euro Euro exit to Iceland

& # 39; England is now a success story because they seem to be behind the scenes and with the manager – have a real alignment in the way they want to help the teams move forward, & # 39; Pressley commented.

& # 39; There are projects with (director) Malky Mackay and I heard Craig Levein say a few weeks ago that we have a bit of patience.

& # 39; But that does not seem to be in line with the senior team's agreements. England now sees the fruits of their EPPP (Elite Player Performance Plan) and their investment in academies.

& # 39; Many people argued that for a long time. But they are patient with it and now it looks like they are bearing fruit. We must be like that.

& # 39; Should We & # 39; to find our Gareth Southgate & # 39; Possible. Someone with the right profile in terms of alignment with the organization, are strong points as an individual. Join him, support him and develop the team.

& # 39; That may not happen overnight. But the problem is if they (the SFA) do not respond to this, then they keep making mistakes. Okay, we might get a tournament and everyone will think it's solved. That is not the case.

Malky Mackay is in the race to temporarily become the next Scottish manager "

running to become the next Scottish manager on a temporary basis"

Malky Mackay is in the race to become the next Scottish manager on a temporary basis

& # 39; It can happen more often if we correct this. You must depend on your own young players. That is where our big clubs also have a responsibility. & # 39; With Celtic hell – inclined to get a historic 10-in-a-row and Rangers do everything to stop them, Scotland & # 39; s two best clubs will be even more busy than usual with the present in the coming year or two.

& # 39; The clubs must work together to help the national team & # 39 ;, Pressley said. & # 39; In Germany, all clubs come together to create and support. In our country everyone fights for their own interests.

& # 39; That will always be the case in Scotland. Celtic and Rangers are really going there now. Who's suffering? The national team

& # 39; When did we last produce top level No. 9? You should probably go back to Charlie Nicholas. None of our Rangers or Celtic teams produces one. We are developing some good players, but we have not developed enough special players that can change a game.

& Scott McKenna and John Souttar are players with a lot of potential. We have great left backs in Andy Robertson and Kieran Tierney. Those are encouraging signs.

& I have seen Billy Gilmour a number of times for youth teams in Scotland. Good work is being done, but there must be more. Unfortunately, it is always the manager who is the fall guy for all this. & # 39;

McLeish & # 39; s was ravaged by call-offs.

McLeish & # 39; s was ravaged by call-offs. It will be fascinating to see if those who manage & # 39; their bodies & # 39; – including Matt Ritchie, James McArthur, Robert Snodgrass, Tom Cairney and Allan McGregor – are considering returning under a new leader.

& # 39; The culture created is so important, & # 39; Pressley insisted. & # 39; That doesn't just come from the manager, it comes from everything about the organization where players feel they want to come. That is one of the things that Gordon could not level. His players showed up.

I see this in England. Behind Gareth they have this huge support mechanism. I do not see that support for the manager within the SFA. & # 39;

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Steven Pressley says 'no arrogance' as he waits for 'right opportunity' in football

Steven Pressley is eager to return to working in football but insists he has to be “more strategic” with his next move. Scot Pressley, 43, has turned down offers to manage in Scotland since leaving Fleetwood Town last year. He previously managed Falkirk and Coventry City. “I have a real, real burning desire to manage at the very top,” the former Hearts defender told BBC Radio Scotland’s…

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Steven Pressley says 'no arrogance' as he waits for 'right opportunity' in football

Steven Pressley is eager to return to working in football but insists he has to be “more strategic” with his next move. Scot Pressley, 43, has turned down offers to manage in Scotland since leaving Fleetwood Town last year. He previously managed Falkirk and Coventry City. “I have a real, real burning desire to manage at the very top,” the former Hearts defender told BBC Radio Scotland’s…

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New story in Politics from Time: The Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Won’t Arrive Until 2028, If It Ever Comes at All

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday the redesign of the $20 bill to feature 19th century abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman has been delayed.

The decision to replace Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, with Tubman on the $20 bill had been made by Mnuchin’s predecessor, former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, who had served in the Obama administration.

Tubman’s fate had been in doubt since the 2016 campaign based on critical comments by then-candidate Donald Trump, who branded the move an act of “pure political correctness.”

Mnuchin, however, said the delay in unveiling a $20 redesign had been prompted by the decision to redesign the $10 bill and the $50 bill first for security reasons. He said those bills will now be introduced before a redesigned $20 bill.

Mnuchin made the announcement of the delay in response to questions from Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., during an appearance before the House Financial Services Committee.

The unveiling of the redesigned $20 bill featuring Tubman, famous for her efforts spiriting slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, had been timed by the Obama administration to coincide with the 100th anniversary in 2020 of passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.

“Currently our currency does not reflect the diversity of people who have contributed to our great American history,” Pressley told Mnuchin.

Mnuchin would not say whether he supported keeping Tubman on the redesigned $20. He said under the revised timeline, that decision will be left to whoever is Treasury secretary in 2026.

Mnuchin said the redesigned $20 bill will not come out until 2028 which he said means that a final design for that bill will not be announced until 2026.

He said the redesign of the bills was being done to introduce new security features to make it harder for the bills to be counterfeited. Based on the security issues, it had been decided to introduce redesigned $10 bills and $50 bills ahead of the $20 bill.

“It is my responsibility to focus on the issue of counterfeiting and the security features,” Mnuchin said.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump had praised Jackson for his “history of tremendous success” and suggested that Tubman could be placed on a different bill such as the $2 bill.

Lew had arrived at the decision to displace Jackson on the $20 bill after first generating a loud outcry with his initial proposal to put a woman on the $10 bill, replacing Alexander Hamilton. Fans of Hamilton, a group that had grown with the popularity of the hit Broadway musical, felt it would be wrong to take him off the nation’s currency.

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Trump Relies on Populist Language, but He Mostly Sides With Corporate Interests

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By Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman | Published July 23, 2019 | New York Times | Posted July 23, 2019 |

WASHINGTON — History will record last week as a moment when President Trump turned to raw racial appeals to attack a group of nonwhite lawmakers, but his attacks also underscored a remarkable fact of his first term: His rhetorical appeals to white working-class voters have not been matched by legislative accomplishments aimed at their economic interests.

As Mr. Trump was lashing out at Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna S. Pressley, House Democrats were passing a minimum wage bill with scant Republican support and little expectation of Senate passage. On the same day, the president issued a perfunctory announcement naming Eugene Scalia, a corporate lawyer and the son of Antonin Scalia, the former Supreme Court justice, as his new secretary of labor on the recommendation of Senator Tom Cotton, a hard-line Arkansas conservative.

The events offered a reminder not only of what Mr. Trump was interested in — racially driven grabs of media attention — but also of what he was not: governing the way he campaigned in 2016 and co-opting elements of the Democrats’ populist agenda to drive a wedge through their coalition.

Since he became president, Mr. Trump has largely operated as a conventional Republican, signing taxes that benefit high-end earners and companies, rolling back regulations on corporations and appointing administration officials and judges with deep roots in the conservative movement. His approach has delighted much of the political right.

It has also relieved Democrats.

“Just imagine if Trump married his brand of cultural populism to economic populism,” said Representative Brendan F. Boyle, a Democrat who represents a working-class district in Philadelphia. “He would be doing much better in the polls and be stronger heading into the general election.”

It is a question many Democrats still fret over: What would Mr. Trump’s prospects for re-election look like if he pressured Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, into passing bipartisan measures to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure, lower the cost of prescription drugs and increase the minimum wage?

Some officials in organized labor say those actions would appeal broadly to their rank-and-file and, in some cases, prompt individual unions to stay on the sidelines of the presidential race.

“If he were to pick and choose some of the House Democrats’ bills and embrace them, it would cross-pressure voters and make it a tougher sell for us that this guy is anti-worker,” said Steve Rosenthal, a longtime strategist in the labor movement.

There is still some hope on Capitol Hill that the president will eventually sign a bipartisan measure being drafted in the Senate that could offer consumers a rebate on prescription drugs that rise above the cost of inflation. A Democratic bill, passed almost unanimously last week, would repeal a tax on high-cost health insurance plans that was to help pay for the Affordable Care Act. If it passes the Senate, Mr. Trump could promote it as a middle-class tax cut, the way Democrats and unions are.

And he will almost certainly take credit for legislation passed on Tuesday that would pay the health care costs of emergency workers who rushed to ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001, for the rest of their lives.

Within the White House, a small group of staff has begun talking about the need to come up with an agenda for 2021 that could be useful for the re-election; Mr. Trump, who has seen the criticism on television that he has no forward-looking message, is also mindful of it, people close to the discussion said.

A White House deputy press secretary, Hogan Gidley, noted that Democrats were not exactly looking for deals either.

“When the speaker and Senator Schumer refuse to even negotiate, it destroys any chance of repairing our infrastructure, reducing health care costs, or making lasting reforms to our failed immigration laws,” he said in a statement, referring to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. He insisted that Democratic leadership is “so beholden to radical ideologies, they would rather fail to deliver for the American people than allow the president to add more accomplishments to his record.”

Democrats, however, have suggested that Mr. Gidley’s criticism rings hollow, pointing out that Mr. Trump walked out of a meeting with Mr. Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was focused on infrastructure, and that the president has said he would not work with Democrats while he was being investigated by Congress.

Mr. Trump faces internal impediments, as well. His impulses are often shaped by news coverage, particularly on Fox News, and the views of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, whose members have no desire to find common cause with Democrats.

The president is also largely detached from the legislative process and has rarely been heard discussing what a second-term agenda could look like or how to tie it to his re-election bid. His few bipartisan accomplishments scarcely get mentioned. Mr. Trump, for example, rarely discusses the criminal justice overhaul that he signed into law after his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, made it a personal mission and argued to the president that it could help him with African-American voters.

This is all to say Mr. Trump has shown no sign of aggressively pursuing the sort of working-class-oriented measures that his onetime adviser Stephen K. Bannon predicted would build an enduring Republican majority.

To be sure, the unemployment rate has continued to fall under Mr. Trump, reaching a 50-year low. Wage growth has accelerated modestly, and is strongest for the lowest-paid workers in the country. Voters give Mr. Trump higher approval on the economy than on his overall performance in office. But most workers are still gaining less under Mr. Trump than they did during previous times of low unemployment, such as the late 1990s, and fewer than two in five respondents to a SurveyMonkey poll for The New York Times this month said their family was better off financially today than a year ago.

With Mr. Bannon long gone, Mr. Trump is surrounded by conservatives in the White House, such as his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, a former Tea Party congressman who has no appetite for raising the gas tax to pay for an infrastructure bill or to make businesses swallow a minimum-wage increase. In fact, the prospect of a major public works bill has become a running joke among West Wing aides. When midlevel staff members were working on a plan several months ago, Mr. Mulvaney was across the country mocking it during an appearance at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference in California in April.

A deal struck Monday by Ms. Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to set higher spending levels for the next two fiscal years will take still more pressure off the White House to embrace large legislative initiatives — because Mr. Trump will have no more major fiscal deadlines this term to press for the kinds of concessions such legislation always takes.

And the moderates in the building who do have Mr. Trump’s ear, such as Mr. Kushner, are more interested in measures like overhauling the criminal justice system or trying to strike a bipartisan immigration deal than they are eager to notch populist victories that the president could trumpet in the industrial Midwest.

The president’s allies say that his talent is in scorching the opposition, and he is unlikely to deviate much from that task.

“I think he doesn’t mind if it happens, but it’s not his primary focus,” Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, said of racking up policy accomplishments. “His primary focus is to so thoroughly define Democrats as the party of the radical left. I think that matters much more to him than any particular bill.”

Even Republicans who would be open to a blue-collar agenda say any chance for Mr. Trump to cut deals with Democrats has vanished.

“I don’t see the president at this point doing anything with those guys, not as long as they’re coming after him with impeachment,” said former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. “He’s at war.”

It is a notably different environment from Mr. Gingrich’s day when, in the heat of the 1996 campaign, sizable majorities in both chambers of Congress passed an increase in the minimum wage bill.

Two Republican senators speaking separately, and on the condition of anonymity to be candid about their political assessment, said they had doubts that such legislation would appreciably move many voters in an era of diamond-hard polarization. Even if Mr. McConnell did move legislation, it may only redound to the benefit of the freshman House Democrats facing re-election in swing districts, one senator said.

For the Democrats most eager to see Mr. Trump defeated, such inaction is not exactly bad news. They are happy to see him engage in whatever rhetorical food fight piques his interest on a given day.

“This is a testimony to both the strength of McConnell’s convictions and to the weakness of Trump’s convictions,” said Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster. “And it also speaks to the power of Mick Mulvaney, who may be the real deep state when all is said and done.”

Jim Tankersley contributed reporting.

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These Are the 4 Republicans Who Voted to Condemn Trump’s Tweets

In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.”

Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should “go back” to their home countries — though all are citizens and three were born in the U.S.A. — Democrats muscled the resolution through the chamber by 240-187 over near-solid GOP opposition. The rebuke Tuesday night was an embarrassing one for Trump even though it carries no legal repercussions, but if anything his latest harangues should help him with his die-hard conservative base.

Despite a lobbying effort by Trump and party leaders for a unified GOP front, four Republicans voted to condemn his remarks: moderate Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Fred Upton of Michigan, Will Hurd of Texas and Susan Brooks of Indiana, who is retiring. Also backing the measure was Michigan’s independent Rep. Justin Amash, who left the GOP this month after becoming the party’s sole member of Congress to back a Trump impeachment inquiry.

Democrats saved one of the day’s most passionate moments until near the end.

“I know racism when I see it,” said Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, whose skull was fractured at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. “At the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism.”

Before the showdown roll call, Trump characteristically plunged forward with time-tested insults. He accused his four outspoken critics of “spewing some of the most vile, hateful and disgusting things ever said by a politician” and added, “If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave !” — echoing taunts long unleashed against political dissidents rather than opposing parties’ lawmakers.

The president was joined by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and other top Republicans in trying to redirect the focus from Trump’s original tweets, which for three days have consumed Washington and drawn widespread condemnation. Instead, they tried playing offense by accusing the four congresswomen — among the Democrats’ most left-leaning members and ardent Trump critics — of socialism, an accusation that’s already a central theme of the GOP’s 2020 presidential and congressional campaigns .

Even after two and a half years of Trump’s turbulent governing style, the spectacle of a president futilely laboring to head off a House vote essentially proclaiming him to be a racist was extraordinary.

Underscoring the stakes, Republicans formally objected after Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said during a floor speech that Trump’s tweets were “racist.” Led by Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, Republicans moved to have her words stricken from the record, a rare procedural rebuke.

After a delay exceeding 90 minutes, No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Pelosi had indeed violated a House rule against characterizing an action as racist. Hoyer was presiding after Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri stormed away from the presiding officer’s chair, lamenting, “We want to just fight,” apparently aimed at Republicans. Even so, Democrats flexed their muscle and the House voted afterward by party line to leave Pelosi’s words intact in the record.

In tweets Tuesday night, Trump took a positive view of the vote, saying it was “so great” that only four Republicans had crossed party lines and noting the procedural rebuke of Pelosi.

“Quite a day!” he wrote.

Some rank-and-file GOP lawmakers have agreed that Trump’s words were racist, but on Tuesday party leaders insisted they were not and accused Democrats of using the resulting tumult to score political points. Among the few voices of restraint, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump wasn’t racist but also called on leaders “from the president to the speaker to the freshman members of the House” to attack ideas, not the people who espouse them.

“There’s been a consensus that political rhetoric has gotten way, way heated across the political spectrum,” said the Republican leader from Kentucky, breaking his own two days of silence on Trump’s attacks.

Hours earlier, Trump tweeted, “Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” He wrote that House Republicans should “not show ‘weakness'” by agreeing to a resolution he labeled “a Democrat con game.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, one of Trump’s four targets, returned his fire.

“You’re right, Mr. President – you don’t have a racist bone in your body. You have a racist mind in your head and a racist heart in your chest,” she tweeted.

And one of the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, offered an impassioned response to Trump’s racist tweets at a roundtable for women of color in Davenport, Iowa, saying to applause, “And he needs to go back to where he came from.”

The four-page Democratic resolution said the House “strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.” It said Trump’s slights “do not belong in Congress or in the United States of America.”

All but goading Republicans, the resolution included a full page of remarks by President Ronald Reagan, who is revered by the GOP. Reagan said in 1989 that if the U.S. shut its doors to newcomers, “our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”

Tuesday’s faceoff came after years of Democrats bristling over anti-immigrant and racially incendiary pronouncements by Trump. Those include his kicking off his presidential campaign by proclaiming many Mexican migrants to be criminals and asserting there were “fine people” on both sides at a 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly.

And the strong words in Washington come as actions are underway elsewhere: The administration has begun coast-to-coast raids targeting migrants in the U.S. illegally and has newly restricted access to the U.S. by asylum seekers.

Trump’s criticism was aimed at four freshman Democrats who have garnered attention since their arrival in January for their outspoken liberal views and thinly veiled distaste for Trump: Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. All were born in the U.S. except for Omar, who came to the U.S. as a child after fleeing Somalia with her family.

The four have waged an increasingly personal clash with Pelosi over how assertively the House should try restraining Trump’s ability to curb immigration. But, if anything, Trump’s tweets may have eased some of that tension, with Pelosi telling Democrats at a closed-door meeting Tuesday, “We are offended by what he said about our sisters,” according to an aide who described the private meeting on the condition of anonymity.

That’s not to say that all internal Democratic strains are resolved.

The four rebellious freshmen backed Rep. Steven Cohen of Tennessee in unsuccessfully seeking a House vote on a harsher censure of Trump’s tweets. And Rep. Al Green of Texas was trying to force a House vote soon on whether to impeach Trump, a move he’s tried in the past but lost, earning opposition from most Democrats.

At the Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch Tuesday, Trump’s tweets came up and some lawmakers were finding the situation irksome, participants said. Many want the 2020 campaigns to focus on progressive Democrats’ demands for government-provided health care, abolishing the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and other hard-left policies.

“Those ideas give us so much material to work with and it takes away from our time to talk about it,” Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana said of Trump’s tweets.