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Senate Republicans worked overnight to try to pass ICE funding, Trump's agenda tests the limits of some lawmakers' support, John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information.
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Bolton’s Guilty Plea Makes Media Attacks On Trump DOJ Look Even More Ridiculous
Bolton's guilty plea not only undermines Bolton's own weaponization claims, but also exposes how ridiculous the media's attacks on Trump have been.
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Alternet.org
'Not even a chance' Trump’s 2 major priorities will get my vote: scorned GOP lawmaker
Thursday brings a consequential day for the Republican agenda, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill gather for a marathon voting session that could bring GOP priorities into conflict with those of President Donald Trump. Judging by a pre-vote statement from one senator scorned by Trump, the president faces an uphill battle. One of the most discussed votes involves the long-hindered effort to pass an immigration and border control budget reconciliation bill, which has been a thorn in the side of Republicans for several months. While it finally appeared likely to pass in the run-up to the Memorial Day recess, the sudden announcement that Trump would create a “slush fund” to pay convicted J6 criminals stalled the bill, with outraged Republicans saying they would not advance it unless the fund was killed. While the fund has since hit a number of major setbacks, it has not technically been ended once and for all. Now, many lawmakers are pushing for an amendment to the reconciliation that would pass it only on the condition that the slush fund is fully banned. When asked by CNN correspondent Manu Raju about the matter, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) shared his thoughts in no uncertain terms. “Even the AG has said that [the fund] is done, so I don’t know why we don’t just codify it so that we don’t have the Democrats raising the speculation that it could come back at some point,” said Tillis, referring to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent assertion that the fund was ended, a claim that Trump quickly contradicted. On Wednesday, it was also announced that the president would seek Blanche’s confirmation to the position permanently, an appointment that has drawn skepticism from across the political spectrum over concerns that the role will be weaponized by Blanche, who is Trump’s former personal attorney. “The key to Todd or anybody getting through the judiciary committee would be being pretty tight on January the 6th. They better not have said for one minute that the people who beat up police officers were righteous people. You come even close to saying that you don’t even have a [chance] of getting my vote,” said Tillis. The Senator has frequently bumped heads with Trump, recently declaring that the president’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence doesn’t have a “prayer” of getting confirmed. Tillis has also called for his fellow Republicans to speak out against the White House, prompting Trump to call him a “nitpicker.” When it was pointed out that Trump and Blanche had made opposing statements about the fund, Tillis wasn’t having it. “The right hand and the left hand need to figure out what the h—— they’re doing,” he declared. “If it’s dead then we should be able to codify that and be done with it.”
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Raw Story
Alex Jones rips into Trump for backing aide he says 'sold everybody out': 'Terrible news'
Alex Jones unloaded on Donald Trump Thursday over the president's decision to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently lead the Department of Justice, calling it "terrible news" and accusing Blanche of betraying Trump's MAGA base.Trump announced his intent to nominate Blanche during a White House event Wednesday evening. Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, has served as acting AG since April after Trump fired Pam Bondi.Jones tore into the nomination on his show Thursday morning. "Terrible. Democrat lawyer. Sold everybody out," he said on the Alex Jones Network. "Killed the investigations into the government weaponization against Trump's top supporters. It's just really terrible news."The criticism carries a personal edge. Jones lost control of Infowars after The Onion acquired it in a bankruptcy auction tied to a $1.5 billion Sandy Hook defamation judgment against him — a takeover Jones is still fighting in court. In September 2025, Blanche ordered a DOJ official, according to the Associated Press, to drop an inquiry into that lawsuit — one Jones had celebrated as proof the DOJ was fighting "illegal lawfare" against him.Jones also seized on the controversy surrounding UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland, who claims in a social media video that he was barred from a White House UFC event over his criticism of Israel — framing it alongside the Blanche pick and Jones's own Epstein file grievances as evidence of a "social credit score" being imposed on Trump supporters.Blanche's nomination requires Senate confirmation.
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Washington Examiner
Trump could keep Todd Blanche atop DOJ even if Senate confirmation stalls
Deputy White House chief of staff Dan Scavino predicted Wednesday that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Senate confirmation would move “very quickly,” offering the clearest indication yet that the administration intends to seek Senate approval for one of President Donald Trump’s closest legal allies. Scavino announced Wednesday that the president plans to nominate Blanche to […]
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US news | The Guardian
Trump news at a glance: Senate Republicans keep president’s $1.8bn ally payout fund alive – for now
Trump’s plan for an ‘anti-weaponization’ fund that could issue financial settlements to people connected to the January 6 insurrection has sparked dissent in his party – key US politics stories from Thursday 4 June at a glanceSenate Republicans on Thursday narrowly scuttled an attempt by Democrats to stop Donald Trump from creating a $1.8bn fund to pay his allies, even as signs emerged that dissent over the proposal was spreading inside the US president’s own party.Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer had proposed inserting language barring the payouts into Republican-backed legislation to fund Trump’s mass deportation campaign through the duration of his term. Continue reading...
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Alternet.org
Top executives warn Trump that even worse price hikes are coming – and soon
At a time when voters are ready to hand Republicans a midterm revolt over the economy, Politico reported this week that top executives warned President Donald Trump that prices are about to get much worse if he does not solve the war in Iran.Trump remains embroiled in negotiations for a lasting ceasefire and resolution to the war, which he started, with Iran's new hardline leadership refusing his demands. As that situation continues to spiral, the Strait of Hormuz remains either closed off or dangerous, depending on the day, sending global oil prices surging as a result.According to a Thursday report from Politico, oil executives have warned Trump and his administration that, as bad as things are now, they are about to get much worse if the Strait is not reopened in a matter of weeks, citing sources close to the discussions. Without the oil that gets shipped through the body of water, global oil reserves will start to dwindle to a dangerous degree, sending prices to new heights."Industry executives have flagged the issue to senior White House officials and Cabinet members in recent weeks as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing dialogue with the U.S. energy industry, the people said," the report detailed. "The warnings came as recently as late last month as data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and other sources began showing that fuel makers were increasingly relying on oil and fuel from their storage tanks to replace products no longer arriving from the Middle East."It added later: "Some of the conversations have been general warnings while others have focused on tight inventories of specific fuel types in particular locations, such as jet fuel on the West Coast, a second person involved in the conversations said."In response to Politico's query about the supposed warnings, the White House gave only a terse response blasting the outlet for citing anonymous sources.“We’re at dangerously low levels already,” one of those sources, an anonymous industry executive, told Politico. “We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.”Exxon executive Neil Chapman recently told investors that crude barrels could reach $150-160 in two or three weeks. Another anonymous executive told Politico that the White House has already been made aware of that and warned of the crunch coming for consumers during the big holiday travel rush.“Don’t think that an open strait is going to mean your July 4 gasoline bill isn’t going to be higher than what it is today," they said. "It’s going to be.”
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New York Post
Megyn Kelly says ‘60 Minutes’ star Scott Pelley’s CBS firing was ‘long overdue’: ‘It was the right call’
“I don’t blame her one bit,” Kelly said of CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss firing Pelley. “It was the right call.”
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