“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered senior Pentagon leadership to cut the number of four-star generals and admirals by at least 20% across the military,” CNN reports.
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Trump Backs Away from ‘Pope Trump’ Image
“President Donald Trump says he knew nothing about an artificially generated image of him dressed as the pope that was posted to his Truth Social account over the weekend,” USA Today reports.
Said Trump: “I had nothing to do with it. Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the pope and they put it out on the internet. That’s not me that did it, I have no idea where it came from, maybe it was AI, but I know nothing about it, I just saw it last evening.”
He added: “They can’t take a joke. The Catholics loved it.”
Dr. Oz Backs Cuts to Medicaid Funding
“Mehmet Oz, the US Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services leader, suggested he supports reducing federal Medicaid funding for the millions of people who gained access to the program through the Affordable Care Act,” Bloomberg reports.
Brian Kemp Won’t Run for Senate
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is passing on a Senate run against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in 2026, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
“Though some allies of the second-term Republican long doubted he would run, the uncertainty froze for months the race against Ossoff, whom Republicans see as one of the most vulnerable incumbents on the ballot next year.”
Kemp was the only Republican candidate who was running ahead of Ossoff in recent AJC polling.
This is incredibly good news for Democrats — especially if it encourages Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) to run.
New Jersey Seeks to Ban Menendez from Public Jobs
“The New Jersey Attorney General’s office will seek a court order to permanently bar former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez from ever holding public employment in the state following his conviction on federal corruption charges last year,” the New Jersey Globe reports.
Israel Plans to Occupy and Flatten All of Gaza
“Israel has set President Trump’s visit to the Middle East next week as a deadline for a new hostage and ceasefire deal, with a massive ground operation to commence if no deal is reached,” Axios reports.
“Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan Sunday night to gradually reoccupy all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely if no deal is reached by May 15. Plans for the operation call for the Israel Defense Forces to flatten any buildings that remain standing and displace virtually the entire population of 2 million people to a single ‘humanitarian area.'”
Trump Suggests Some Trade Deals May Come This Week
“President Donald Trump suggested that his administration could strike trade deals with some countries as soon as this week, offering the prospect of relief for trading partners seeking to avoid higher US import duties,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Trump: “We’re negotiating with many countries, but at the end of this, I’ll set my own deals — because I set the deal, they don’t set the deal.”
He added: “You keep asking the same question: ‘When will you agree?’ It’s up to me, it’s not up to them.”
IRS Lost 31% of Tax Auditors in Downsizing
“The Internal Revenue Service lost 31% of its auditors from buyouts and layoffs tied to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, departures that are likely to hamper the agency’s ability to go after tax cheats,” Bloomberg reports.
“More than 3,600 revenue agents — responsible for collecting tax payments — have left the IRS.”
House GOP Sets Flurry of Meetings on Megabill
“House Republicans have planned a slew of meetings this week that they hope will resolve huge political battles over their massive domestic policy bill as they race the clock on a Memorial Day deadline,” Politico reports.
What Trump Wants In a New Tax Bill
Punchbowl News has a list of priorities the White House sent to Capitol Hill:
- A lower tax rate for foreign-derived intangible income, when companies export products based on intellectual property held in the United States.
- A 15% tax rate for corporations that make products in the United States, down from the current 21% rate.
- Full deductions immediately when businesses buy short-term assets like equipment and machinery.
- A new tax deduction for interest payments on auto loans.
- Trump’s campaign promises: no tax on tips, overtime pay and Social Security benefits.
- Make the 2017 tax cuts permanent.
The ‘Significant Risk’ Republicans Tank the Economy
Russell Berman: “One of President Donald Trump’s greatest political strengths has suddenly become a weakness. He won a second term in large part because voters believed he could boost the economy. Instead, Trump has shrunk it, and his tariffs have sent both the stock market and consumer confidence tumbling.”
“Republicans in Congress could soon make things much worse. GOP leaders are struggling to reconcile deep divisions as they try to pass Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ which encompasses the bulk of his domestic agenda. The plan revolves around his 2017 tax cuts; Republicans want to permanently extend them before they expire at the end of the year, but they can’t agree on how to cover the more than $5 trillion price tag—or whether to cover it at all. The likeliest outcome, analysts say, is a bill that adds trillions to federal deficits, which could cause an already shaky economy to collapse.”
Idea for Foreign Movie Tariffs Came from Jon Voight
President Donald Trump’s new plan to impose tariffs on foreign movies was pitched to him by actor Jon Voight, whom the president considers a close ally, Politico reports.
Republicans May Use Impeachment as Midterm Issue
CNN: “Even though Democratic leaders are wary of a third impeachment vote, the topic has become a prominent discussion in GOP ranks, with Trump eager to avoid another all-consuming showdown with an emboldened Democratic majority and Republican leaders banking the talk could help drive up turnout in an election where Trump won’t be at the top of the ticket.”
Said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA): “It is a key priority of his, obviously, to keep the House majority, because he knows what would happen if we didn’t. Democrats have already said they’re gonna try another baseless impeachment. They’ll do their best to grind the agenda to a halt.”
White House Still Exploring Options on Movie Tariffs
Although the entertainment business is still grappling with President Trump‘s post suggesting that a tariff on foreign-made films is in the works, the White House said in a clarifying statement that “no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made,” the Hollywood Reporter reports.
“The comment suggests that any further clarity on the tariffs, what form they would take, how they would be implemented, etc. will likely take some time to be revealed. It also suggests that the White House may be exploring what legal avenues it has to pursue them, given the complexities and uncertainties on implementing a tariff on what amounts to a service rather than a physical good.”
Financial Times: Film industry reels as Donald Trump threatens 100% tariffs.
Macron Says Trump’s Academic Crackdown Threatens U.S.
“Emmanuel Macron has warned that Donald Trump’s crackdown on U.S. scientific research threatens America’s economy and democracy, as the French leader and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a pitch to researchers to come to Europe instead,” the Financial Times reports.
Said Macron: “No one could have thought that the world’s biggest democracy, whose economic model relies so heavily on science, on innovation and on its ability… to have disseminated this innovation more widely than its European peers, would make such a mistake. But here we are.”
Mike Lawler Faces Another Rowdy Town Hall
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) faced another hostile crowd at a town hall as attendees broke out into boos and jeers and a constituent was forcibly removed by police, USA Today reports.
Wes Moore Is Everywhere
“Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appears to be everywhere at the moment — popping up on ‘The View,’ delivering a commencement address at a historically Black university in battleground Pennsylvania and, later this month, delivering an address to South Carolina Democrats, who could be pivotal in determining the Democratic Party’s nominee in 2028,” CNN reports.
“The rising star is part of a chorus of Democratic leaders putting forward a vision for how the party should take on Donald Trump as the president plows ahead with his second-term agenda.”
Trump to Pay Immigrants $1,000 to Leave the U.S.
“The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda,” the AP reports.
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