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4:00 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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Better to TACO Than Not to TACO  —  ICE agents are heading to airports today, with President Trump deploying them in an apparent effort to reinforce TSA agents working without pay due to the government shutdown.  Trump seems dead-set on keeping those agents working without pay rather …
Brian Stelter / CNN:   Trump's ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News
Politico:
‘The pressure is untenable’: Trump's deployment of ICE agents to airports ramps up shutdown fight
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. …
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
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
Associated Press:
Live updates: Supreme Court seems skeptical of allowing states to accept late-arriving mail ballots
Roque Planas / The Guardian:
California sheriff running for governor seizes over 650,000 ballots from 2025 election
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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Trump administration, energy developer announce end of U.S. offshore wind projects
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
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 …
Marc Vartabedian / New York Post:
Senators move to ban sports betting on prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket — first bill of its kind  —  A bipartisan Senate duo is introducing legislation that would prohibit prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket from letting people bet on sports and casino-style games.
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Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers to Introduce Bipartisan Bill Banning Sports Bets on Prediction Markets
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 …
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 …
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.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Confirms 91 Wrongful Deportations of Asylum Seekers  —  BALTIMORE—In a stunning courtroom admission, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge Monday that the Trump administration has identified 91 cases where asylum seekers were deported despite …
Politico:
Judges appoint career prosecutor as New Jersey US attorney in apparent end to standoff … But this pick appears to have the support of the Trump administration based on a social media post from Alina Habba, who filled the job last year before resigning after a court ruled she could not hold it.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Federal government employees are not ok  —  Imagine you inherited a large, complex business.  You don't have time to run it yourself, but you recognize its importance.  So you hire a management team.  They promise to cut costs and boost productivity.  A year later, costs are higher than ever …
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)  —  Jared Kushner's investment advisory firm Affinity Partners, which is officially registered …
Yun Li / CNBC:
Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump's market-turning post … S&P 500 futures and oil futures flashed an unusual burst of activity early Monday minutes before a market-moving social media post from President Donald Trump.  —  At around 6:50 a.m. in New York …
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.
 
 
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Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
‘Not Losing’ Has Different Meanings for Iran and the U.S.
John Kenneth White / The Hill:
There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
How Trump Killed Conservatism
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Thomas Frank / Politico:
It's three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump
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Nik Popli / Time:
Trump Poised to Skip CPAC For First Time in a Decade
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