We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Cottle’s analysis at The New York Times of Sarah Sanders and her refusal to do the job taxpayers are paying her to do:
At 43 days and counting, this information drought supplants the previous record of 42 days without a briefing, set in March — which broke the 41-day record set in January.
At some point, one cannot help but wonder: What is the job of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who holds the title of White House press secretary?
Philip Bump at The Washington Post crunches the numbers on how Sanders has completely avoided doing her job and finds that she’s spent more time “briefing” children at photo ops than actually being press secretary:
Her predecessor Sean Spicer held near-daily briefings until he was fired. Sanders no longer bothers. Since Nov. 1, she has held precisely three briefings. Compare that with the same period two years before.