A new CBS News poll finds 59% of Americans say the economy is “getting worse” and 52% describe the job market as “bad.”
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Lawmakers Press Pentagon on Basis for Cartel Boat Strikes
“Senators on both sides of the aisle pressed the Pentagon’s top lawyer in a closed-door meeting to provide a better legal explanation for striking alleged Latin American drug boats in the Caribbean,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“In a classified Senate Armed Services Committee briefing Wednesday, the Pentagon general counsel, Earl Matthews, detailed the legal basis for the military’s attacks ordered by President Trump.”
“Matthews repeatedly deferred to Trump’s designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as granting the Defense Department unilateral authority to use military force against them… Matthews refused to provide a written justification for the strikes.”
Hamas Demands Changes to Trump’s Peace Plan
“Hamas will demand key revisions to Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire proposal but is likely to accept the plan in coming days as a basis for renewed negotiations,” The Guardian reports.
FDA Approves Another Generic Abortion Pill
“Federal officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, a regulatory formality that quickly triggered pushback from anti-abortion groups and politicians aligned with the Trump administration,” the AP reports.
Washington Post: “The administration’s approval of the drug on Tuesday comes less than two weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary said the department was conducting a review of the safety of abortion pills, a decision that antiabortion activists welcomed.”
“Now, those same leaders are questioning the administration’s commitment to their cause, marking the first significant pushback Trump has received from his otherwise loyal base of socially conservative activists.”
Megachurch Pastor Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Child
Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church into one of the largest congregations in the country, pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually abused a girl in the 1980s, NBC News reports.
Americans Overwhelmingly Approve of Kimmel’s Return
By a more than two-to-one margin, Americans approve (58%) rather than disapprove (25%) of the decision by ABC and its parent company, Disney, to end Jimmy Kimmel’s recent suspension and let him return to TV, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll.
Trump Making Plans to Bail Out Farmers
“The Trump administration is planning to roll out the first tranche of bailout payments for farmers in the coming weeks using likely billions of dollars in funding from an internal USDA account,” Politico reports.
“But it won’t be enough: USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund — which President Donald Trump previously tapped to provide $28 billion in farm aid during his first-term trade war with China — has just $4 billion left in the account.”
“Trump officials, including those at the Treasury Department, are looking at how to tap tariff receipts or other funding to supplement the payments without triggering a messy fight in Congress.”
Trump Not Ruling Out Strikes Inside Venezuela
The Trump administration isn’t ruling out launching military strikes inside Venezuela as it continues its campaign against drug cartels, Semafor reports.
Mamdani’s Path Does Not Include Majority Support
If Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, he is poised to become the first New York City mayor without majority support, Politico reports.
“The front-runner has consistently polled at around 45% in the contentious general election, far short of anything that could be considered a mandate, even as he continues to best second-place contender Andrew Cuomo by double digits.”
“If Mamdani wins without even a simple majority, it will make it that much more difficult to construct coalitions to advance his agenda.”
MAGA Dreams
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) discussed President Trump’s plan to permanently layoff workers across the federal government telling Fox News that budget director Russ Vought “has been dreaming about this moment, preparing for this moment, since puberty.”
Early Polls Show More Blame Republicans for Shutdown
“The U.S. government is shut down, and Americans are more inclined to blame President Donald Trump and Republicans for it, according to four independent, national polls conducted just before or during the funding lapse,” NBC News reports.
“But there is fluidity in the political fight, as the surveys show a significant share of voters aren’t sure who to blame. The shutdown is only in its second day, as Republicans and Democrats sharpen their messages, and it’s not clear how long the impasse will last.”
Aaron Blake: Democrats could have more shutdown leverage than people realize.
Newly-Elected But Still Not Sworn In
“A week after her decisive win in an Arizona special election, Adelita Grijalva arrived at the U.S. Capitol, where her father had served for decades,” the AP reports.
“But as she roamed the familiar halls, she said she could not help but feel like a tourist. With the House out of session, her swearing in has been delayed. That left her without an office, a desk, staff — something of an unofficial new member of Congress.”
Another Bonus Quote of the Day
“If you’re going to criticize the socialist Mamdani for wanting to own grocery stores, you better criticize Republicans who want a share of Intel, of Nvidia, or U.S. Steel. Owning even part of the means of production is a step toward socialism. It’s a bad idea and a dangerous precedent.”
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on X.
Workers’ Email Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
“Department of Education employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed a government shutdown on Democrats,” NBC News reports.
“Five employees who spoke with NBC News and provided copies of their out-of-office messages said the wording was altered from how they originally had composed them.”
Said one: “None of us consented to this. And it’s written in the first-person, as if I’m the one conveying this message, and I’m not. I don’t agree with it. I don’t think it’s ethical or legal. I think it violates the Hatch Act.”
Trump ‘Determined’ U.S. Is Now at War with Drug Cartels
“President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are ‘unlawful combatants,'” the New York Times reports.
“The notice was sent to several congressional committees… It adds new detail to the administration’s thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing all 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.”
Mamdani Would Eliminate ‘Gifted’ Programs in Schools
“New York mayoral front-runner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani said he wants to end the city’s gifted and talented program for kindergarten students in public schools, wading into a contentious issue weeks before the election,” Bloomberg reports.
Greenland Deepens EU Ties in Rebuff to Trump
“Greenland is seeking closer ties with the European Union after getting more financial support from the bloc, a rebuke to US President Donald Trump’s ambition to woo the Arctic territory,” Bloomberg reports.
Democrats Pull Away From AIPAC
“A quiet retreat by Democrats from the pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbying group is the latest evidence of a realignment underway in Congress on Israel,” the New York Times reports.
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