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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Majority of public opposes GOP plan for Medicaid cuts: Poll  —  Large majorities of Americans, including Republicans, oppose federal funding cuts to Medicaid, according to a new poll from health policy research group KFF.  —  The results are yet another warning sign for congressional …
Discussion: KFF, STAT, Fox News, Politico and HuffPost
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Politico:
The GOP plan to fund Trump's agenda is running into a major roadblock: Trump  —  House Republicans are relying on deep cuts to the safety-net health program to finance their megabill.  But the president is deeply wary.  —  President Donald Trump is skeptical of congressional Republicans' emerging plans …
Axios:
Senate GOP leaders succeed in protecting Trump tariffs
NBC News:
A bipartisan measure to undo Trump's global tariffs fails in the Senate
NBC News:
Republicans hit early snags as they start crafting a massive bill for Trump's agenda
Discussion: NPR
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers say economic numbers are a major red flag for Trump
Discussion: MeidasTouch News and The Guardian
Jack Blanchard / Politico:   Guys and Dolls  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine
Vanessa Yurkevich / CNN:
The last boats without crippling tariffs from China are arriving.  The countdown to shortages and higher prices has begun  —  New York CNN —  Some of the last cargo ships carrying Chinese goods without crippling tariffs are currently drifting into US ports.  Come next week, though, that will change.
Discussion: HotAir
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Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
As a Tariff Loophole Closes, Sellers Who Import From China Brace for Chaos
Wall Street Journal:
The Rush to Beat Tariffs Is Distorting the Economy. There's More to Come.
Discussion: The Dispatch, Cafe Hayek and Bloomberg
Nicole Narea / Vox:
What is — and isn't — getting pricier under Trump's tariffs?
Discussion: Al Jazeera and New York Times
New York Times:
Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It  —  The first 100 days of President Trump's second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction.  Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts …
Discussion: The Hill
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Chris Krebs kicked off CBP's Global Entry program  —  Chris Krebs', President Donald Trump's former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, membership in Global Entry has been revoked.  Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   Ex-Trump Official Targeted for Investigation Loses Global Entry Status
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Announces Agreement to Establish United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund  —  WASHINGTON — On April 30, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.  In recognition of the significant financial …
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CNN:
US and Ukraine sign critical minerals deal
New York Times:
Ukraine and U.S. Sign Economic and Reconstruction Deal
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Häagen-Dazs and Buddha: Elon Musk waxes philosophical on his time with Trump  —  Musk reflected on what it has been like at the center of the U.S. DOGE Service.  At times, the man running the show wondered aloud how the show even started.  —  Elon Musk sat down in the Roosevelt Room …
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USA Today:
Elon Musk talks Lincoln Bedroom stays, late-night ice cream as he steps back from DOGE
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Washington Post:
As Musk steps back, DOGE looks to Congress to finish what it started
Discussion: The Independent and The Free Press
Wired:
DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations  —  A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
Discussion: Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk  —  With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company  —  About a month ago, with Tesla's stock sinking and some investors irritated about Elon Musk's White House focus …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Stocks and the economy down?  Watch the Trump bait-and-switch.  —  President Donald Trump changes his tune whenever bad news strikes, so the spin is always that he's on course. … — President Donald Trump, interview with ABC News, aired April 29 … — Trump, in a post on social media, April 30
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Emily Mullin / Wired:
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research  —  NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola.  Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Washington Post:
RFK Jr. will require shift in how new vaccines are tested, HHS says  —  The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:   The little-known database at the heart of Kennedy's vaccine conspiracy theory
Joel Khalili / Wired:
Trump's Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen  —  The largest investors in Donald Trump's crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president.  The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for his impeachment, experts say.
Ismael M. Belkoura / STAT:
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths  —  Non-profits scramble to continue program despite ‘devastating’ loss of federal support  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He's Refurbishing a Qatari Plane  —  The luxury plane is being outfitted in Texas for Trump's use as his frustration mounts with Boeing  —  President Trump is done waiting for Boeing .  —  Frustrated by delays on Boeing's work to deliver a new Air Force One …
Washington Post:
Trump wants voters to prove citizenship.  Arizona tried that and bungled it.  —  The state requires voters to prove their citizenship.  An error led to chaos, suspicion and confusion, signaling broader challenges for Republican-led efforts across the country.
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump Town Hall Bursts Into Laughter When He Says He Hasn't Made Any Mistakes  —  NOTHING BUT WINNING  —  The president said there's nothing he would have done differently during his first 100 days in office.  —  Donald Trump's first 100 days back in office have been marked by chaos …
Discussion: The Independent and Mediaite
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories  —  Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
Discussion: Yahoo News
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump  —  The White House has launched a new Drudge Report-like website devoted to promoting pro-Trump news stories.  —  Why it matters: The site, called White House Wire, represents the administration's latest effort to circumvent …
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory … With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap.  —  A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a parasitic worm “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
Jay Peters / The Verge:
A judge just blew up Apple's control of the App Store  —  The judge in Epic v. Apple has banned Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store because of its ongoing anticompetitive behavior. … Apple says it will appeal the order.
Caitlin Doornbos / New York Post:
‘Bumbling f-king idiot’ Steve Witkoff shouldn't be leading Iran, Russia negotiations, allies and insiders say  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, former real estate attorney and investor Steve Witkoff, has left administration insiders distressed by his approach …
Punchbowl News:
Dems make Pennsylvania midterm's ground zero  —  House Democrats are making an aggressive play in their push for the majority, targeting key Pennsylvania seats with early investments and recruiting former members to help.  —  Democrats are hoping to flip four seats in the Keystone State …
Karina Tsui / CNN:
Trump says he ‘could’ bring Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador, but won't  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged that he could secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month but refuses to do so.
 
 
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New York Post:
Harvard finally admits in its Oct. 7 report that woke politics have wrecked the school
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
The Supreme Court Could Unleash Chaos on the Economy
NPR:
Trump's VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans wave off recession fear, just as Democrats did on inflation
Discussion: NOTUS
Conor Sen / Bloomberg:
US Economic Weakness Is Being Exaggerated - For Now
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Trump ran on boosting prosperity. Now, economic uncertainty grows.
Ed Cara / Gizmodo:
RFK Jr. Goes Full Tinfoil, Pledges to Stop Chemtrails in Latest Dr. Phil Interview
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Gateway Pundit
Wall Street Journal:
Paramount Leaders Discussed Settling Trump's Lawsuit for as Much as $20 Million
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The religious right is headed toward a revolutionary victory in the Supreme Court
 

 
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