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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Republicans Slip Nonprofit Killer Bill Into Budget Plan  —  House Republicans' draft budget bill includes a clause to give Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a supporter of terrorism.  —  The move appears to be a revival …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Dems privately rage over “utterly selfish” Trump impeachment vote
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Democrats take aim at GOP's Medicaid work requirements
The Hill:
GOP makes biggest bet yet pairing Trump tax rates with Medicaid cuts
Ben Jacobs / Politico:
Republicans Confront a Senate Primary From Hell
Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Johnson Contends With Republican Mistrust in Dash to Pass Tax Bill
Discussion: Bloomberg
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrat forces vote on impeaching Trump
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Ron Johnson is threatening to tank the GOP megabill. He's been here before.
Discussion: Semafor
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
Carville Lectures Dems on How to Go After Trump for $400m Grift  —  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH  —  The veteran political strategist demands action on unusual deals involving the president, including the jet from Qatar.  —  James Carville is calling on Democrats to go on the offensive over what he calls the …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Raise Concerns Over Trump's Plane Gift as He Heads to Qatar  —  Some lawmakers flag potential security issues as the president doubles down on defending the offer, saying only a ‘fool’ would turn it down  —  WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers on Tuesday expressed national-security concerns …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Conduct oversight on Trump's graft — or censure James Comer  —  House Democrats must pressure Republicans to fulfill their constitutional duties.  —  President Donald Trump arrived in the Middle East on Tuesday as the representative of two different entities.
Politico:   Qatar-a-Lago  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  This is Jack Blanchard.
Washington Post:
White House eased China tariffs after warnings of harm to 'Trump's people'  —  The president has backtracked repeatedly on his tariff policies, creating a whiplash with downsides and few clear benefits so far.  —  Some of the president's top aides saw an opening.
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New York Times:
Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents  —  Judge Hannah C. Dugan was accused of helping an undocumented immigrant elude federal agents who were waiting to arrest him outside her courtroom.  —  The Wisconsin judge arrested last month and accused of helping …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan in ICE case  —  A federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on May 13 on charges that she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month, putting her at the center …
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists  —  President Trump campaigned on a pledge to fight antisemitism.  —  “Antisemitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society,” Trump said at an event in 2024.  —  However, the president's critics question whether antisemitism …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
In High-Stakes Negotiations, Trump's Opponents Are Learning His Patterns  —  President Trump often takes maximalist positions, only to back down and declare a win.  His opponents are catching on.  —  President Trump has long reveled in his reputation as a maximalist, issuing a huge demand …
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Guy Chazan / Financial Times:
Inside the Trump administration's quiet shift on Ukraine
Discussion: Semafor
Politico:   Trump's maximalist agenda finds its limits
Jeff Singer / The Downballot:
Democrats just flipped Nebraska's biggest city  —  Democrat John Ewing unseated Republican Mayor Jean Stothert in Tuesday's officially nonpartisan election to lead Omaha, a victory that ends the GOP's 12-year hold on Nebraska's largest city.  —  Stothert conceded the race after 9 PM local …
New York Times:
Tiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency  —  The firm, which produces content for TikTok, recorded no revenue last year, but it announced this week that a mysterious stock sale would allow it to invest heavily in the $TRUMP memecoin.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
DOJ ‘weaponization’ group will shame individuals it can't charge with crimes, new head says  —  As Jeanine Pirro prepares to become U.S. attorney in D.C., Trump loyalist Ed Martin is taking over the Justice Department's effort to investigate Trump's investigators.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Breitbart
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Martin's Out. Pirro's In. Incompetence Reigns.
Discussion: Washington Post
Don Van Natta Jr / ESPN:
Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson among players reinstated by MLB  —  In a historic, sweeping decision, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday removed Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list.
New York Times:
DOGE Removes Dozens of Resurrected Contracts From Its List of Savings  —  Elon Musk's group is no longer claiming credit for canceling those contracts after The New York Times reported that they were revived.  —  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is no longer claiming credit …
Discussion: Mediaite and CBS News
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Financial Times:   What has Elon Musk's Doge actually achieved?
Associated Press:
Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration  —  Mexico's security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.
Discussion: al.com
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport  —  Would you let your family fly out of Newark? … Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it's safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey …
Bertrand Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
Germany Foils Alleged Russian Plot to Mail Incendiary Devices  —  The conspiracy, if confirmed, shows Moscow continues to target the West with acts of sabotage despite Trump's arrival in the White House  —  BERLIN—German police detained three men suspected of planning to mail packages laden …
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump's surgeon general pick pits MAGA vs. MAHA  —  President Trump's second choice to serve as surgeon general has pitted some members of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement against allies of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.  —  Trump's decision to nominate Casey Means …
J. Michael Luttig / The Atlantic:
The End of Rule of Law in America … The president of the united states appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a government of laws, not of men, so that they and future generations …
ABC News:
Trump calls for new Iran nuclear deal  —  In his final open remarks during his time in Riyadh, President Donald Trump echoed his calls for a nuclear deal with Iran and again touted his closeness with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  —  “The whole world is watching the Middle East …
A.G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
A Free People Need a Free Press  —  This essay was originally delivered as a talk at the Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies on Tuesday.  —  The role of a free and independent press in a healthy democracy is under direct attack, with increasingly aggressive efforts to curtail and punish independent journalism.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Cuts Additional $450 Million in Grants to Harvard  —  The latest broadside from the federal government comes as Harvard faces multiple investigations from across the Trump administration.  —  The Trump administration on Tuesday canceled an additional $450 million in grants …
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Trump Administration Reportedly Told Court About Its Efforts To Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia  —  Lawyers for the wrongly deported man revealed a stark contrast to what Trump and his officials have been saying publicly.  —  The Trump administration has reportedly told the court overseeing …
Jeffrey Mervis / Science:
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF  —  Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress  —  Skip backwardsGo ten seconds backward Skip forwardsGo ten seconds forward  —  Audio is AI-generated.  Report an issue|  Give feedback  —  Smaller.
Discussion: Ms. Magazine and Time
Catherine Shoard / The Guardian:
Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: 'This isn't just America's problem'  —  Accepting honorary Palme d'Or at opening ceremony of festival, actor rails against the US's ‘philistine president’  —  The actor Robert De Niro has - after a brief period of abstention …
Richard Primus / The Atlantic:
Trump's Third-Term Ambitions Are Very Revealing … President Donald Trump is cagey about whether he might try to stay in office after his current term expires.  He frequently says that other people want him to do it, and the Trump Organization is selling Trump 2028 hats.
The Free Press:
How Qatar Bought America  —  The tiny Gulf nation has spent almost $100 billion to establish its influence in Congress, universities, newsrooms, think tanks, and corporations.  What does it want in return?  —  On Wednesday, Donald Trump will travel to Qatar.
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The anti-woke right won in 2024.  Now they're turning on each other.  —  A glimpse into the bitter infighting consuming MAGA's intellectual ranks. … It's been a rough week in the world of the online intellectual right, which is currently in the midst of two separate yet related blowups …
 
 
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Rolling Stone:
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