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Jeffries Faces Growing Threat of Rebellion
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) could get caught in the undertow of the very blue wave he hopes to ride into power this November as a growing number of…
Iran’s Regime Is Consolidating Power
“Despite more than two weeks of relentless airstrikes, U.S. intelligence assessments say, Iran’s regime likely will remain in place for now, weakened but more hard-line, with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary…
U.S. Allies Rebuff Trump’s Demand for Help
“President Trump is pressuring allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and relieve pressure on the global economy. So far, most of them aren’t biting,” the Wall Street Journal…
Trump Says He’s Ready to ‘Take’ Cuba
President Trump says Cuba is on the brink of collapse and the U.S. may be “taking” the island nation, Politico reports. Said Trump: “I think Cuba sees the end. All…
Trump Delays Summit With China’s Xi
“President Trump said he had sought to postpone a planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, saying he wanted to be in the U.S. as the war continues. Trump had…
Georgia GOP Official Voted Illegally 9 Times
“A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020…
Mike Johnson May Push War Funding on Party-Line Vote
Punchbowl News: “The speaker inched ever closer to saying that he’ll try to put a large-scale Iran war funding bill in a reconciliation package. Johnson detailed the outlines for a…
Judge Strikes Down RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policies
“In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over…
Trump Regularly Presented with Off-Ramps for Iran War
“Military officials have included options in regular war planning for President Donald Trump to end the conflict in Iran should he decide to do so,” NBC News reports. “As the…
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the…
Exchange of the Day
President Trump spoke to reporters about the Iran war: TRUMP: I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, he said, “I wish I did it.”…
Trump Says U.S. Doesn’t Need Help for Strait of Hormuz
After spending the weekend demanding that key allies help open the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump told reporters today that the U.S. doesn’t need the assistance. Said Trump: “I don’t…
Trump Upset as Key U.S. Partners Shun His Call for Help
Several U.S. allies — including Germany, Spain and Italy — rebuffed Donald Trump’s call on Monday to send warships to escort shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, drawing criticism from…
Super PAC Spending Floods Illinois Primaries
Semafor: “The effect of the outside spending on this spring’s primaries, which in some districts involve the first open-seat contests in decades, is huge.” “Super PAC spending has dwarfed the…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Pardon Push Goes Flat
As Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted former crypto mogul, tries to convince Trump to grant him a pardon, some of the biggest crypto supporters in Congress are warning the president to…
Family of Jesse Jackson Denies Posthumous Endorsement
“The family of Rev. Jesse Jackson is withdrawing an eyebrow-raising posthumous announcement of an endorsement of Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton for U.S. Senate, saying on Monday that his primary choices…
The MAGA Revolt That Isn’t
For months, critics predicted that a war with Iran would split the MAGA movement. The theory was simple: Donald Trump built his political brand railing against endless wars abroad. Launching…
Trump Says He Reversed Lawmaker’s Terminal Diagnosis
“For weeks on Capitol Hill, there had been quiet murmurs about the health of an ailing veteran House Republican, Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), and whether he would be able to…
Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency
New York Times: “After all, Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the…
Trump Loses One Battle After Another
“President Donald Trump is increasingly at the mercy of forces he unleashed but can’t control — so he’s taking aim at the umpires,” Politico reports. “Gas prices surging. Unemployment climbing….
