Trump Heads to the Middle East With a Single Goal: Deals, Deals, Deals  —  President Trump has always viewed the presidency as a worldwide hunt for deals.  And there is no better place for that than the Gulf, where a few men wield absolute authority over vast wealth.

U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs in Bid to Defuse Trade War  —  The 145 percent U.S. tariff on Chinese goods will come down to 30 percent for 90 days, while the two sides continue talks aimed at resolving their differences.  —  The United States and China said Monday …

A Common Sense Budget Reconciliation Bill  —  My committee's legislation supports U.S. innovation, strengthens Medicaid, and ends Green New Deal-style waste.  —  When President Trump took the podium for his Second Inaugural Address, he promised a “revolution of common sense” …

White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.  —  Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday.  Their departure for the U.S. came as the Trump administration was halting virtually all refugee admissions.

Flights Could Be Disrupted Across U.S., Transportation Secretary Warns  —  After a series of problems at Newark Liberty International Airport, the secretary, Sean Duffy, said he would meet with airline leaders on Wednesday to plan to scale back Newark flights.

Will we allow ICE to behave as a secret police?  —  I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to hide his face, seized two men at the Charlottesville, Va. courthouse.

Defanging NEPA  —  Can you buy your way out of judicial review?  —  The House Natural Resource Committee has released its portion of the draft reconciliation bill that's working its way through Congress.  Among other things, the committee draft includes a provision that aims to make NEPA unenforceable in the courts.

Digging into the math of a study attacking the safety of the abortion pill  —  The Ethics and Public Policy Center report on mifepristone has earned headlines on the right, but what does the data show?  —  The Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank that says it opposes …

5/12/25 ☀️ AM:  —  What you need to know about reconciliation  —  SLF poll shows Cornyn getting creamed by Paxton  —  Murphy to force votes on U.S. arms sales to Qatar, UAE  —  What you need to know about reconciliation … Hill Republicans want to get the package on Trump's desk by July 4.