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This is not the end but just the first chapter of a new legal front in the trade war. There is going to be appeal, stay on the injunction (I would think), ultimately the supreme court. In the meantime reduced incentives for other countries to negotiate and more 232s.

Following up on this: It's a good test case for the kind of executive authority the court's majority wants to endorse. "Unitary exec theory" is mainly vertical: No independence from POTUS in exec branch. But tariffs are horizontal: POTUS supremacy over Congress on trade. 1/2

SCOOP with Nahal Toosi: State issued guidance for reviewing the social media accounts of Harvard’s student visa applicants for antisemitism, in what it called a pilot program that could be rolled out for colleges nationwide. politico.com/news/2025/05/3…

NEW: It happened again. Donald Trump dusted off a decades-old statute and attempted to redefine it to expand presidential power — only to slam into a rejection from the courts who say the law was never meant to be used that way. politico.com/news/2025/05/3…

Scoop: The White House this week convened nearly a dozen agencies to brainstorm additional punitive measures against Harvard, with forthcoming actions expected from State, Treasury, HHS and DOJ. politico.com/news/2025/05/3… w/ Megan Messerly

The 7 pieces of the House megabill that could succumb to Senate rules: 1. Tax-cut accounting 2. AI regulations 3. Judicial powers 4. Gun regulations 5. Farm bill provisions 6. Planned Parenthood funding 7. Energy permits politico.com/news/2025/05/3…

In a Substack post on Tuesday, Gabrielle Cuccia wrote that new policy making vast parts of the Pentagon off-limits to journalists was a “troubling shift.” Evidently someone disagreed. On Thursday “I was asked to turn in my Pentagon badge to my bureau chief.” cnn.com/2025/05/31/med…

“Elon has negatively polarized a lot of Democrats against pro-EV policy, without having a real impact on positive polarization among Republicans”

>>> Hundreds of thousands of health care workers, including an estimated 30,000 legal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, are at risk of being deported — worrying providers and patients who rely on them

The current 15-20% tariff rate is starting to bite. The ~40bln in May duties under current policies suggests the tariff drag is a ~2% of GDP tax hike on the US economy. Unless brought down soon (thru courts, deals, etc), it's going to start hitting the economy soon. Thread.

If you get arrested by ICE, could you prove you’re a citizen? Often agents quickly correct their mistake. But sometimes they don’t.

SCOOP: Trump administration officials delayed and redacted parts of a government forecast over the report's prediction the agricultural trade deficit would increase. POLITICO politico.com/news/2025/06/0…

Really important scoop from Marcia Brown, who is on an incredible tear covering the inner policy workings of the Trump administration

I've referred to the challenges John Arnold describes in implementing Medicaid work requirements as rationing health coverage through complexity.

Mary Miller says she’s ‘deeply troubled’ by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post ow.ly/4clH106bboj

Elon Musk’s physical confrontation with Treasury Secretary Bessent, as recounted by Stephen Bannon: