memeorandum: Trump tells Schumer to ‘GO TO HELL’ over Senate nominee deal funding demands after negotiations collapse (Alex Miller/Fox News)

11:20 AM ET, August 3, 2025

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Alex Miller / Fox News:

Trump tells Schumer to ‘GO TO HELL’ over Senate nominee deal funding demands after negotiations collapse — Senate Democrats wanted White House to unfreeze billions in NIH and foreign aid funding in exchange for confirmations — Hours of tense negotiations to strike a deal …

Discussion: RedState, Associated Press, NOTUS, Raw Story, The Hill and Newsweek

Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News:

Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — Washington - The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, an ardent loyalist of President Trump and a FOX News fixture, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit

Axios:

“Nuclear option” lingers over Senate as members leave for August recess — Senate leaders failed to reach a bipartisan deal to speed through more of President Trump's nominees — so senators are heading home with a GOP promise of changing the rules when they return in September.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and The Hill

Associated Press:
Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to ‘go to hell’

Discussion: Townhall, Washington Times and Joe.My.God.

Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate GOP eyes recess appointments as stalemate drags on

Discussion: Roll Call, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner

Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital

Discussion: NBC News, New York Sun, The Daily Caller, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Mediaite, Townhall, twitchy.com, New York Post, Newsweek, Al Jazeera and Deadline

Brendan Ballou / The Atlantic:
Republicans Might Regret Putting Emil Bove on the Bench

Discussion: Raw Story, twitchy.com and Fox News

Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senators leave Washington without Trump nominees deal

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill and RedState

Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney

Discussion: New York Times and MSNBC

Alex Miller / Fox News:
Pirro confirmed as D.C. U.S. Attorney amid partisan clash as Dem nominee blockade continues

Discussion: twitchy.com, Breitbart and RedState

Alex Miller / Fox News:
Dems dig in, Trump demands all: Nominee fight boils over in Senate as GOP looks for a deal

Discussion: RedState, Newsweek and Washington Examiner

Peter Baker / New York Times:

Trump Fires Official Over Jobs Report, Echoing an Authoritarian Playbook — In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn't like and promote his own version of reality.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Guardian, Breitbart and The Hill

Ben Berkowitz / Axios:

U.S. jobs data “very unreliable,” top Trump econ adviser says — The labor statistics chief that President Trump fired Friday is a “terrific person, but the jobs data her agency produced has become “very unreliable,” National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.

Discussion: Washington Times, American Thinker, Mediaite, Reuters, New York Times and Raw Story

Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support

Discussion: Civil Discourse …

Washington Post:
Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump's reaction

Discussion: The Mahablog

Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Republicans slam Trump's firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief

Politico:

DOJ is walking back the White House's goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day … It's not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration's single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law.

Discussion: Raw Story, TalkLeft and Townhall

Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Latino GOP lawmakers voice worry about Trump's mass deportation campaign

Discussion: ABC News

Andrew Duehren / New York Times:

Trump's Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. … Shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore. Even before the latest tariffs set in, revenue from taxes collected on imported goods grew drastically this year.Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

Discussion: Bloomberg

Paul Krugman: The Economics of Smoot-Hawley 2.0, Part I

Stuart Anderson / Forbes:

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students — Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. — SaveComment — The Trump administration is using rules, policies and formal agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Nnamdi Egwuonwu / NBC News:

Smithsonian will again include Trump in impeachment exhibit in ‘coming weeks’ — The museum's decision to remove a placard referencing President Donald Trump from an impeachments exhibit sparked concerns over Trump's influence on the cultural institution. — The Smithsonian's National Museum …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, MSNBC, Smithsonian Institution, The Hill and CNN

Jonathan Fischer / Washington Post:
Smithsonian to restore Trump to impeachment exhibit ‘in the coming weeks’

Discussion: Robert Reich, CBS News, CNN, UPI, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, RedState, Newsweek, USA Today, twitchy.com, New York Sun and Breitbart

Washington Post:

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge — President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt. — Just now

Discussion: Reuters

Greg Jaffe / New York Times:

Laura Loomer Attack on West Point Appointee Reflects Larger Fight Over Trump — Jen Easterly, who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was headed to the academy. Then a right-wing activist stepped in. — Hours after West Point pulled its offer to have her teach cadets …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Associated Press:

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds — Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party …

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it's transition time — Dan Balz writes on his retirement from full-time work at The Washington Post after 47 years. — Just now — About two months ago, my wife was out for a walk and stopped to talk with a man working in his yard.

Stephen Starr / The Guardian:

Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown — An imam's detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town — For 50 long years, life in Hamilton, a town of 63,000 people a half-hour north of Cincinnati, was in decline.

Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:

Prince Andrew and Donald Trump's Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed — GROSS — An explosive new book heaps more shame on the disgraced prince. — Donald Trump allegedly handed Prince Andrew a list of masseuses after the two men engaged in a sick conversation about “p—y.”

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Post, Extra, Page Six, New York Daily News and GB News

Isabella Murray / Associated Press:

Democratic governors throw support behind Newsom, back partisan redistricting — “There's a bigger risk in doing nothing,” DGA Chair Laura Kelly said. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accompanied by several members of the Texas state Legislature, calls for a new way for California …