Good morning and congratulations to the real winners of today’s $750 million Powerball drawing: America’s convenience store owners. Meanwhile, some super important news from three disparate areas:

• Health: We can add "Ozempic teeth" to the growing list of GLP-1 side effects.

• Marketing: Michigan's Pure Michigan tourism campaign is hawking Michigan-scented fragrances.

• Outdoors: Park rangers “destroyed” a 13-acre illegal marijuana grow operation in Sequoia National Park.

In less thrilling news, South Korea’s president will meet Trump at the White House today. On the agenda? The cost of stationing 28,500 U.S. troops there, and whether South Korea’s shipbuilding expertise could be of use as Trump tries to rebuild America’s shipbuilding industry.

DESIGN

🎨 Trump plans design overhaul of federal websites

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia can add a new title to his résumé: chief design officer of the United States. President Trump created the role via executive order late last week and hired Gebbia, who’s worked at DOGE since February, as the country’s first CDO. His goal? To “make the U.S. the most beautiful, and usable, country in the digital world.”

• Gebbia's a billionaire who co-founded Airbnb in 2008 and still serves on the board. He’s a designer and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Why? The federal government maintains an estimated 26,000 websites. As you might expect, a good number of them are hot garbage from a time when Windows XP ruled the world (RIP, king). According to the White House, the old sites are costly to maintain, difficult to navigate, and undermine public trust in important federal services.

• Only 6% of federal websites have good ratings for mobile performance, and 45% aren’t mobile-friendly at all.

America by Design is the name of Trump’s new initiative. Americans, he says, have come to expect a certain "usability and aesthetic quality" that federal websites fail to meet. He wants to update the government's "design language” to be “both usable and beautiful."

• Per the initiative's new website, the end goal is an Apple-like experience. The National Design Studio also has a site up and running.

• President Nixon launched a similar design initiative in the 1970s that produced some iconic logos still in use today.

The National Design Studio (NDS) is a new division in the Executive Office of the President (aka: the White House), which means Trump won’t need a congressional permission slip on this. Joe Gebbia will head up the NDS as chief design officer and will report to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles (Trump's right-hand woman).

• The NDS will work with agencies to “reduce duplicative design costs”, standardize designs, and “improve the quality of experiences offered.”

• To help facilitate this overhaul, Gebbia will “help recruit top private-sector designers.”

• Agency heads will collaborate with Gebbia and the NDS to implement changes at their respective agencies.

It’s not just websites, either. Trump wants to “deliver digital and physical experiences that are both beautiful and efficient.” And he’s tasking federal agencies with improving both.

Future: Barring changes by Trump, this is a temporary project that expires in three years. As for initial results? He expects agency heads to start delivering by July 4, 2026 — just in time for America’s big 250th birthday bash.

GOVERNMENT

#️⃣ Florida state officials sent a letter to the U.S. Census Bureau, part of the Commerce Department, with an odd request. The ask? An extra seat in the House of Representatives. Gov. Ron DeSantis cited the Bureau's own 2022 admission that it significantly miscounted the populations of 14 states during the 2020 Census, including Florida. The state's attorney general believes Florida was undercounted by about 700,000 people ... which just so happens to be roughly the population of one congressional district. The apportionment process that doles out House seats based on new population counts after each census has never been redone after the fact. And federal law locks the House at 435 members. So, in the unlikely event Florida is granted another seat, it would come at the expense of another state -- likely one that was overcounted in 2020.

🌊 There really is a government agency for everything. The obscure Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) halted construction on an offshore wind power project in Rhode Island on Friday, which its Danish developer said is 80% complete, with 45 of 65 turbines already installed. The project had already cleared years of federal and state reviews, but the agency on Friday said the federal government needs more time to address potential national security issues involved. State leaders say they’ll “pursue every avenue” to fight the order. The BOEM, formed in 2010, is a division of the Interior Department that manages the development of offshore resources.

💰️ The federal government now owns a 10% equity stake in troubled chipmaker and tech giant Intel. The $8.9 billion purchase will be funded in part by $5.7 billion in Biden-era CHIPS Act grants, which have already been awarded to Intel but haven’t been paid. Another $3.2 billion will come from the Defense Department's Secure Enclave program. Both programs aim to increase domestic manufacturing of high-end semiconductors. Trump called this a “great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL,” and CEO Lip-Bu Tan agreed. Intel has plans to invest $28 billion in two chip plants in Ohio.

TRIVIA

Today marks the 16th anniversary of the passing of longtime U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. Ted was elected in a special election in 1962 to fill the seat his brother John had vacated to become president the previous year. He served until his 2009 death, but when Ted took office, he was just barely old enough to even serve in the Senate. According to the Constitution, how old do you have to be to serve in the Senate, in the House, and as president?

Hint: Each requirement is divisible by five.

POLITICS

🗺️ Texas Republicans notch a win as the redistricting war spreads

Republicans have won the opening battle, but Redistricting War 2025 has only just begun. Texas Republicans successfully passed a law on Saturday that redraws the boundaries of the state’s 38 congressional districts. If it works as intended, Republicans will pick up five U.S. House seats when the new map is used for the 2026 congressional elections.

• As expected, opponents have already filed a lawsuit challenging the map as racially discriminatory. It creates a net of three extra majority-minority seats, but splits others up.

With the big prize out of the way, Republicans are shifting their focus to other states, including Florida, Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri, for similar redraws. And, due to quirks in state law, Ohio is already required to redraw its map for next year.

Democrats aren’t going down without a fight. California voters will cast ballots in November to decide whether to give the Democratic-majority state legislature the power to draw new maps that favor Democrats (though Republicans say the current maps already do). An expensive campaign fight over that is already brewing.

• National Democrats are promising to redraw other maps, too, but they have fewer good opportunities than Republicans.

Elsewhere in politics:

• The Republican National Committee (RNC) has a new chairman in Joe Gruters, former head of the Florida Republican Party. The previous guy resigned to run for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.

• The Minnesota Democratic Party revoked its endorsement of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh and accused him of cheating during the party's convention vote.

• Third Way, a center-left think tank, wants Democrats to talk like “normal” people. That means ditching “Therapy-Speak” and phrases like "privilege" and "patriarchy."

• New York Attorney General Letitia James is vowing to appeal after a New York state court threw out her ~$500 million civil fraud penalty against Trump for being unlawfully “excessive.”

BRIEFS

● Nineteen states are deploying their state-controlled National Guard troops to assist federal immigration officers across the country. About 1,700 troops will provide clerical functions and logistical support, but will not make any arrests.

● FBI agents raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, who served as Trump's national security advisor in 2018 and 2019 and is now a frequent Trump critic. The raid was tied to potential mishandling and illegal possession of classified materials.

● A federal district judge blocked the Trump administration from withholding Housing and Urban Development grants from 34 so-called "sanctuary" cities and counties for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

● Russia's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, wants the U.N. Security Council to guarantee Ukraine’s post-war security instead of NATO. He also says there’s “no meeting planned” between Putin and Zelenskyy.

● A U.S. Navy sailor has been convicted of espionage for selling secrets to China. Jinchao Wei, 25, was paid a whopping $12,000 over 18 months for classified info on various U.S. Navy ships. He’ll be sentenced in December and could face life in prison.

● South America's Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday and signed off on the preliminary "Declaration of Bogota." The plan aims to protect the world's largest rainforest from environmental problems, including climate change and deforestation.

● Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Opponents of the move say Trump is forcing everyone into a "loyalty test," but others claim Kruse was canned for leaking a DIA report to the media.

QUOTE

ANSWER

The minimum ages for each office:

• House: 25

• Senate: 30

• Presidency: 35

It’s not uncommon for someone in their 20s to win a House seat. Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, currently the House’s youngest member at 28, took office when he was 25.

Young senators are rarer. Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, 38, is currently the Senate’s baby. He took office at 33. Back in 1972, Joe Biden turned 30 about two weeks after winning election to the Senate (but before taking office).

The youngest-ever president was Theodore Roosevelt, who ascended from the vice presidency at age 42 after the death of President William McKinley. On a hopefully unrelated note, JD Vance just turned 41.