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Senate rejects latest resolution to limit Trump's Iran war powers
The Senate narrowly rejected a war powers resolution on Iran as President Trump touts a framework agreement with Tehran to end the monthslong conflict.
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Kevin Warsh Makes His Fed Debut With Trump Pushing for Rate Cuts
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Serious changes are likely coming to the central bank.
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Ex-GOP presidential aide says 'no one is safe' from Trump's lawfare
According to an ex-presidential aide, President Donald Trump’s fishing expedition against one of the Democrats’ presumed 2028 election front-runners, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, proves “no one is safe” from the Republican president and his politicized DOJ.“Federal agents abusing the powers that they had when surveilling civil rights leaders have taken off after the governor of California, which means, unless you're not too bright, if they can do it to Gavin Newsom, they can do it to anybody,” warned Steve Schmidt, who advised Republican president, George W. Bush. “And thinking about that, how close is it that we came to the US military being deployed on the streets, an ICE army behind them or in front of them, commanded by Stephen Miller, with the power to detain whomever they wanted, wherever they wished?”Adding that Trump has reportedly talked about eliminating the writ of habeas corpus, which guarantees the government “can't just lock you up without reason or cause and has existed in English common law for a thousand years,” Schmidt added that Trump aspires to transform America “from a republic to a police state.” Comparing Trump’s order to investigators to find something about Newsom and/or his family members, Schmidt added that this is like Russia under its dictator, Vladimir Putin.“It is unacceptable, and it must not be stood for,” Schmidt declared. “This is why, in the months ahead, as the contours of the debate take shape, there can be no compromise on this simple, fundamental, absolutely important principle” — namely that, unlike the forgiving approach of President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland, after Trump there should be “no more appeasing this lawless evil. Here, in these United States, there will be accountability for every federal agent, every corrupt federal official, from Trump on down, who has made the rule of law in this country a mockery and has trampled on the liberties of the American people, including the governor of California and his lovely wife Jennifer, who deserve better from their president, and better from their country, than to be persecuted for speaking out and participating and leading and standing up.”In a Monday appearance on MS NOW senior investigative correspondent Carol Leonnig revealed that a fellow reporter, Erum Salam, learned Trump’s Department of Justice is trying to find any case it can to use against him."First off, I want to say that we have from sources two really important nuggets," Leonnig said. "One is that the central district of California, the U.S. district attorney's office in the central district, has been pressing the line prosecutors to come up with a case against Gavin Newsom."Schmidt has also warned more broadly about the loss of faith in American political institutions that has occurred during Trump’s presidency.“There was a time in America when public disgrace meant something,” Schmidt said. “A man caught lying to the public would resign. A politician caught in corruption would retreat from public life. A leader who dishonored his office would feel the sting of judgment from neighbors, colleagues, family members and strangers.”
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Gavin Newsom Reveals Why Trump Is Investigating Him and His Wife
California Governor Gavin Newsom accused President Donald Trump Monday of having his family investigated by the Department of Justice. Newsom released a video statement saying he’d been added to Trump’s “hit list,” claiming that federal investigators had launched a probe into him because he was considering a presidential run in 2028.“In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees. Not because they found a crime. Because they are simply trying to find one,” Newsom said. “They’re demanding records. They are abusing the grand jury process. Digging through years and years of random documents,” Newsom said. “Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He’s coming after me because I am considering running for president.”Newsom claimed that federal investigators were also investigating his wife, actress and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom, “who has done nothing wrong, other than having the temerity to advocate for what she believes in.”There are actually several ongoing investigations related to Newsom, a source familiar with the situation told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott. The investigations reportedly involve his wife’s taxes and his chief of staff Nathan Barankin. Those did not originate from the main DOJ but stem from Sacramento, involving whistleblowers, according to the source. This revelation comes a year after Trump threatened to have Newsom arrested, amid an escalating feud about the president’s illegal deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.Trump has bragged about his supposed “right” to weaponize the Department of Justice, and openly directed the DOJ to investigate his political enemies New York Attorney General Letitia James, Senator Adam Schiff, and former FBI Director James Comey. All of those cases crashed and burned. Trump had also been investigating former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, although he dropped the case in order to get Powell’s replacement approved by the Senate. It’s not clear that the administration won’t resume targeting Powell.And just a week ago, Vice President JD Vance referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the DOJ for a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud.This story has been updated.
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Trump’s Dismantling of the Department of Education Takes Worrying Turn
President Trump has taken further steps to dismantle the Department of Education, moving offices for special education and civil rights to other departments. The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services will be moved to the Department of Health and Human Services, while the Department of Justice will take over civil rights issues, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.The moves are worrying, especially considering Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education as well as who he has appointed to HHS and the DOJ. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made worrying comments about autism, making outlandish claims and changing policies on vaccines to fit his medically inaccurate views.Kennedy’s views have also been criticized as incorporating eugenics, which should not be anywhere near special education in America. It raises fears that students with special needs could be marginalized or worse.When it comes to civil rights, the DOJ has been ground zero for the Trump administration’s attacks on “wokeness,” undermining its own Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and targeting one of America’s leading civil rights organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center. The person in charge of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ, Harmeet Dhillon, is a loyal foot soldier to Trump.Now, the Department of Education will be weakened further, and students will lose valuable resources as these offices are moved into departments without education experts. Combating discrimination and increasing special education resources used to be a priority in America, but no longer.
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Who Is Jay Clayton, Trump's Pick for Director of National Intelligence?
Clayton is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
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Trump administration appeals order to restore ‘inappropriate’ materials to historic sites
The Trump administration is asking a federal appeals court to block an order requiring it to restore historical exhibits and materials altered under an executive order ahead of America 250 and July 4. The Department of the Interior and the National Park Service filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st […]
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'They always fold': MS Now panel expresses disgust with Trump’s subservient GOP
The Tuesday crew of MS NOW’s “The Moment with Katy Tur” have heard the song before, and all were convinced President Donald Trump’s GOP are going to confirm his controversial AG nomination despite the swarm of complications that come of hiring Trump’s personal lawyer and committed lacky.“I think it's going to be somewhat difficult to get him confirmed, although … they fold on everything when it comes to Trump,” said MS Now contributor Jake Sherman. “… listen, they all fold, right? I mean, they all fold. [Rep.] John Cornyn [R-Texas] is somebody to keep an eye on. Tillis, Lisa Murkowski [R-Alaska], Susan Collins [R-Maine] — any number of these people could vote against Todd Blanche, and he has to get through the judiciary committee, which is treacherous and will be treacherous for him.”MS NOW anchor Katy Tur could not easily swallow Sherman’s nihilism, however.“I know you say it doesn't matter, but I think it does matter,” insisted Tur. “I mean, he can be deputy ag for forever, but it does matter politically and it does matter for our country, Alex. It matters whether Republicans are willing to hold the very people that they nominate to the standards that they have given for them, which Thom Tillis laid out pretty clearly during that initial confirmation hearing.”But MS NOW senior political analyst and host of the “Runaway Country” podcast host Alex Wagner warned Tur not to get her hopes up, no matter how loudly a smattering of Republicans protested Blanche’s overt dedication to Trump, despite taxpayers footing his bill.“Every time we ask ourselves whether republicans will do the right thing, it's like lucy with the football we keep, keep going after it, Katy. And yet the football keeps disappearing,” Wagner told her.“But we have to ask it. We can't avoid it,” protested Tur. “We have to ask.”“Katie, my best guess would be [that] I think that John Thune is going to allow some members to vote against Todd Blanche's confirmation, just like he did on key votes, basically, swing state vulnerable Republicans, whether it's Susan Collins or others, so that they can say they didn't vote to confirm him — which is the coward's way out, knowing full well that he'll get confirmation more broadly,” said Wagner. “But secondly, … they are genuinely afraid of Trump's wrath,” Wagner added. “Even if they're leaving office, they don't want the headache of him targeting them and their families. They don't want to deal with the internet onslaught. They want to make sure that they have some kind of career after they leave the Senate. They want to make money, and to do that, they need to stay in the good graces of the GOP. And Trump, he is the king.” - YouTube youtu.be
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Algae thwart Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn reflecting pool ‘American flag blue’
Green algae have proliferated amid warm weather after Lincoln Memorial pool renovation turning water greenDonald Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool from what the US president described as a “filthy” and “dirty” site into a “beautiful” monument has encountered a hitch.The water is green again. Continue reading...
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