Communications/messaging fracture within the White House team: craft and moral clarity (Toby, Josh) clash with pragmatic deal‑making and PR management (Mandy, Donna, Sam) as staff argue over how to frame and defend the administration's choices.
Communications/messaging fracture within the White House team: craft and moral clarity (Toby, Josh) clash with pragmatic deal‑making and PR management (Mandy, Donna, Sam) as staff argue over how to frame and defend the administration's choices.
Events in This Arc
Mandy confronts Josh in his office, pressing the concrete policy gains of the landmark Banking Bill while Josh refuses to accept a vindictive land‑use rider that would gut Big Sky. …
In Toby's office at night Mandy pushes pragmatic damage control while Toby stews in principled fury. C.J. arrives and tries to broker calm; Mandy proposes trading a sit-down presidential interview …
Late at night in Sam's office a petty domestic argument becomes a revealing power skirmish. Sam, desperate to 'nail' a birthday message, types while Toby hovers, nitpicks tone and offers …