JUST IN AT SCOTUS: a 12th emergency application from the Trump administration, this one to let the govt abandon part of the Temporary Protected Status immigration policy that a lower court had reinstated
Couple of footnotes here: 1. Trump budgeted zero for public broadcasting all four years of his first term; Congress voted for the money anyway; 2. By law, Corp for Pub Broadcasting is private and independent. Trump doesn’t control its funding.
2025 APRIL PARTY ID - In political terms, do you consider yourself to be a Republican or a Democrat (with indie leaners)
🔵 Democrat: 45%
🔴 Republican: 44%
Was R+5 in March vs D+1 now
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@NapolitanNews/RMG Research | 9,212 RV
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The April jobs report shows the economy is not in recession, despite the Q1 GDP decline. Employment increased 177k in the month, suggesting the job market remains a firewall between continued growth and a downturn. But after accounting for downward revisions to previous months,
I’m obviously in favor of a strong US security posture, but cutting nondefense spending by 23% and RAISING defense spending by 13% is an egregious misappropriation of taxpayer dollars.
There’s a point where more defense spending is largely redundant, and we’re there.
BREAKING: In an insane moment, mere days after Donald Trump called the economy "Joe Biden's economy," Fox News' Maria Bartiromo now says "the economy is doing well" after an anemic 177K jobs were added in April. Is this Trump's economy now?
We can talk about DOGE’s failure to cut two trillion dollars in “waste” all day, but the real story is how much Elon Musk is enriching himself by remaining in the government.
Later this month, Canada will have the privilege of welcoming Their Majesties The King and Queen to Canada — where His Majesty King Charles III will deliver Canada’s speech from the throne.
This historic honour matches the weight of our times.
"The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution finalized the designation after compiling a report exceeding 1,100 pages, which outlined extensive evidence of extremist activity within the party."
I am sure our Secretary of State and acting National Security Adviser
NEW: Trump ally Stephen Miller’s legal group sues Chief Justice Roberts as part of an attempt to give the executive branch control over federal courts. The lawsuit claims the move “preserves separation of powers but also keeps the courts out of politics.”
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The Donald Trump administration’s gutting of the National Weather Services (NWS) has left major metropolitan centers without a top meteorologist.
Hurricane season is around the corner.
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Auchincloss: I was a marine before I was a congressman and I'm an American before I am either. I want the economy to be ripping and roaring regardless of who is president but what I am seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his meme coin…