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Trump Hunts for Ways to Blunt Gas Price Hikes
Bloomberg: “Among the myriad ideas floated to the administration for consideration are asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax; releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve once the…
Marines to Arrive Same Day as Trump’s Deadline
Wall Street Journal: “Thousands of U.S. Marines are slated to arrive in the Middle East on Friday, the day President Trump has set as the deadline for Iran to reopen…
RNC Has 7-to-1 Money Advantage Over the DNC
CNN: “An already massive gap between Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee finances widened in February, according to new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.” “The RNC out-raised…
Trump Pays $1 Billion to Cancel Wind Projects
NOTUS: “The Trump administration is paying nearly $1 billion to get a French energy company to cancel two planned offshore wind projects.” “The Interior Department said TotalEnergies will invest the…
New Top Prosecutor Named in New Jersey
Washington Post: “Judges in New Jersey appointed a new top federal prosecutor for the state on Monday in a move that drew swift support from the Justice Department, signaling an…
Iran Extracting Toll from Ships Through Strait
Financial Times: “Iran has for years threatened to shut down the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes. And now they have done so, Iranian…
Trump’s Presidency Is in a Death Spiral
Lakshya Jain: “Trump’s numbers on the economy are radioactive. Every major demographic group of voters disapproves of his economic stewardship, including supermajorities of young and nonwhite voters. He’s even underwater…
Pentagon Weighs Deployment of Airborne Troops
New York Times: “Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division’s headquarters staff to…
Trump Approved Iran Strikes After Netanyahu Call
“Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of…
Lindsey Graham Begins Talks on New Party-Line Bill
Punchbowl News: “Senate Budget Committee Republicans are meeting early this week to discuss a second reconciliation bill.” “Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called the meeting as talks…
How Trump Killed Conservatism
Peter Wehner: “The president has cultivated and encouraged the ugliest passions within the GOP, dousing the embers of hate with kerosene.” Save to Favorites
Justices Seem Skeptical of Late-Arriving Mail Ballots
“The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments over whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump,” the AP reports. “In…
Iran’s Speaker Denies Any Negotiations
The Associated Press quotes Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf: “No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the…
Why Would Iran Make a Deal with Trump?
Let’s assume — generously — that the U.S. is actually negotiating with senior Iranian officials. That raises a more basic question: What, exactly, could Donald Trump say that anyone in…
Trump Poised to Skip CPAC
Time: “President Donald Trump is poised to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, breaking with an annual tradition that has helped define his political rise and cement his…
The White House Template for Trump’s Lies
CNN: “Donald Trump’s White House spokespeople have a favorite two-step reply when reporters ask them to comment on one of the president’s false claims.” “First: They say, ‘President Trump is…
Fox News Didn’t Report on Trump’s Mueller Reaction
CNN: “If you only watched Fox News over the weekend, you didn’t hear about President Donald Trump’s widely condemned reaction to Robert Mueller’s death.” “Since then, Fox News has mentioned…
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to…
U.S. Negotiating with Iranian Speaker
An Israeli official told Axios that U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been speaking with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. President Trump did not…
Trump Rejects Exit Ramp on TSA Spending
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security, leaving an impasse unresolved that has led to…
