The Wall Street Journal is reporting, in its Morning Editorial Report, that the Trump administration is dropping 760,000 ineligible enrollees from ObamaCare, a move the Editorial Board called good work in cleaning up fraud.
The board also said the GOP faces a Farm Belt economics problem, noting that Vice President JD Vance has said "we want farming to be easier," even as tariffs and trade wars have made it harder. In a separate item, the board said the United Nations General Assembly majority has created a permanent bureaucracy that forges anti-Israel bias. It also said Republicans' panicky rush to ban diesel exports reveals their electoral trouble.
In commentary, Roland Fryer wrote that school choice is necessary for all children to reach their full potential but is not sufficient. Karl Rove wrote that this election season will likely bring more surprises than most, for both parties. Burton G. Malkiel wrote that with high yields and stock prices, investors should consider rebalancing their portfolios.
Columnist Sadanand Dhume wrote that the multiracial coalition that elected President Donald Trump in 2024 may fracture because of bigotry within the party. Barton Swaim wrote that a court in The Hague is considering defining genocide down to harm the Jewish state. James Freeman wrote that blue-state attorneys general are blocking potential media reform, leaving Democrats in control at CBS and CNN.
In reviews, the Journal said a posthumous memoir by Gloria Steinem reveals she fell in love with India in the late 1950s for its "modern rebellion against colonialism." It also reviewed a British landscape photography exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, marked the centennial of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, and praised Opera Montana's world-premiere adaptation of "A River Runs Through It."
The Journal also said its Potomac Watch podcast examined what is on Trump's agenda with China's Xi Jinping, including whether he will press Beijing to stop supporting Iran and whether he will hold back weapons from Taiwan.