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4:50 PM ET, March 23, 2026

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Punchbowl News:
3/23/26☀️ AM: … The House and Senate are in session this week.  The House returns Tuesday.  The Senate, which has been in all weekend, is scheduled to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as Department of Homeland Security secretary tonight.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
ICE agents arrive at U.S. airports amid TSA staff shortages, funding fight  —  President Donald Trump has suggested the agents would be arresting undocumented immigrants at airports.  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrived at several airports Monday to assist …
NBC News:
Trump rejects off-ramp to fund DHS as airport delays worsen  —  Under a proposal pitched to Trump, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE, and fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line budget bill.  —  WASHINGTON — On Sunday …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trump's shambolic policy-making by Fox segment hits the airports  —  President Donald Trump threw his administration into chaos on Saturday by demanding the stationing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at U.S. airports in response to long lines triggered by the expiration of funding …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead  —  The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, but many Americans took notice only last week, when we started to see huge delays at major airports as many unpaid Transportation Security Administration employees refused to show up to work.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
‘The pressure is untenable’: Trump's deployment of ICE agents to airports ramps up shutdown fight
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
ICE to maintain ‘presence’ at 13 airports and help with crowd control
Paul Krugman:
Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy  —  Trump says he's negotiating with Iran.  Iran says he isn't.  Who are you gonna believe?  —  Another day in America's self-immolation as a Great Power.  —  More like this on my YouTube channel  —  Transcript  —  It's Monday morning.
Discussion: The Mahablog and NewsMax.com
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump pauses Iran energy strikes for 5 days while talks progress
James LaPorta / CBS News:
Amid Iran talks, Strait of Hormuz dotted with about a dozen Iranian mines, U.S. officials say
Discussion: Stimson Center
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Iran Calls B.S. as Trump Claims Iran Talks Are Underway
Julia Marshall / Straight Arrow News:
Trump postpones strikes on Iranian power plants following talks with Tehran
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots  —  The case could upend the way states handle ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive later.  President Trump has called for restrictions on mail-in voting.
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail  —  The right wing of the Supreme Court happily churned out far-fetched hypotheticals as rationale to end a voting practice so common that 30 states use it — including ruby red Mississippi …
Associated Press:
Live updates: Supreme Court seems skeptical of allowing states to accept late-arriving mail ballots
Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Exclusive: Kalshi to block athletes and politicians from trading on their markets  —  Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.
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Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers to Introduce Bipartisan Bill Banning Sports Bets on Prediction Markets
New York Times:
Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms  —  In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.  —  The Trump administration will pay the French energy giant TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion …
New York Times:
How Epstein Helped Solve a Billionaire's Problems With Women … In October 2017, a yoga instructor emailed Jeffrey Epstein with a delicate question: When might she receive the tens of thousands of dollars she'd been promised by the billionaire Leon Black?  —  She and Mr. Black …
Discussion: Fortune
Associated Press:
2 pilots killed when jet collides with fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport  —  An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others, officials said.
John Kenneth White / The Hill:
There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency  —  The Trump presidency is over.  Those words seem harsh and, perhaps, overstated.  But Donald Trump is governing without the consent of the governed.  Most polls show Trump's approval hovering around the 40 percent mark.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate
Discussion: New York Times and Jewish Insider
New York Times:
Pentagon Officials Weigh Deployment of Airborne Troops for Iran War  —  The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.  —  Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda  —  In the latest battle over the future of Voice of America, a fresh group of veteran Voice of America journalists are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, alleging that she is promoting pro-Trump propaganda on air.
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Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:
Suspect in Loyola student killing was in US illegally, DHS says  —  The suspect charged in the fatal shooting of a Loyola University Chicago student was in the United States illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said.  —  Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested by Chicago police …
Victor Nava / New York Post:
White House installs Christopher Columbus statue made from remains of toppled sculpture  —  A new statue of Christopher Columbus went up on the White House grounds Sunday that was built using pieces from a monument to the Italian explorer that protesters destroyed six years ago.
Julian Mark / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says police officer is immune from misconduct claim by protester  —  The court's three liberal justices criticized the majority for its approach to cases involving qualified immunity for police.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday shielded a Vermont police officer from a legal claim …
Discussion: Reason, The Hill and Fox News
ProPublica:
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids  —  The baby needed somewhere to go.  So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife.  As squad cars waited outside the family's Lakeland …
Reuters:
Italy's Meloni seen narrowly losing justice referendum, exit polls say  —  Exit polls on Monday suggested Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had narrowly lost a referendum on her flagship reform of the judicial system, dealing a potential blow to the ruling coalition ahead of next year's general election.
 
 
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Wendy Siegelman / NewsTRACS:
Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners investment firm just filed a disclosure showing over $6 billion in assets under management for 6 clients in 2025 (compared to $4.8B in 2024 and $3B in 2023)
Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
‘Not Losing’ Has Different Meanings for Iran and the U.S.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Confirms 91 Wrongful Deportations of Asylum Seekers
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
How Trump Killed Conservatism
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Yun Li / CNBC:
Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump's market-turning post
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Thomas Frank / Politico:
It's three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump
Discussion: MS NOW
Nik Popli / Time:
Trump Poised to Skip CPAC For First Time in a Decade
Discussion: Newsweek
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Rejects Exit Ramp on TSA Spending Impasse
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
President Donald J. Trump's behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes out at those he perceives to be enemies. …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Federal government employees are not ok
Jan-Werner Müller / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA
Discussion: NewsMax.com
 

 
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