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5:05 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.
Bloomberg:
Trump Says ICE Agents Shouldn't Wear Masks on Airport Duty
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
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 …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court worries Trump's attack on late ballots could also threaten early voting … Lawyers for both the federal government and the RNC insisted that they are not trying to end those practices.  —  “We agree with both sides that early voting is still acceptable,” …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots
Associated Press:
Live updates: Supreme Court seems skeptical of allowing states to accept late-arriving mail ballots
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: NewsMax.com and The Mahablog
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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
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
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate  —  It's SAVE America Act month, and I can't stop thinking about dog food.  —  As in, Republicans have a dog-food problem.  They're serving up food that dogs won't eat.  The obvious solution is to change the recipe, but no way.
Discussion: New York Times and Jewish Insider
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John Kenneth White / The Hill:
There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
New top prosecutor named in New Jersey, ending impasse over U.S attorney's office  —  Robert Frazer replaces a trio of officials the Justice Department installed to lead the office late last year — an arrangement a federal judge ruled was illegal.  —  Judges in New Jersey appointed …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
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Politico:
Judges appoint career prosecutor as New Jersey US attorney in apparent end to standoff
Discussion: Washington Times
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online  —  On Monday a judge said videos of recent depositions from DOGE members can be published online once again.  The ruling is something of an about face for Judge Colleen McMahon, who originally ordered plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit …
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 …
Politico:
Hawley investigates FICO for mortgage credit scoring  —  Sen. Josh Hawley is launching an investigation into how the dominant player in credit scoring prices its services for the mortgage market.  The Missouri Republican sent a letter Monday to Fair Isaac Corp., known more widely by its acronym FICO …
Politico:
No DHS talks expected until Mullin is confirmed, White House official says  —  The White House is holding off on further DHS funding negotiations until the Senate confirms Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead the agency, according to a White House official, granted anonymity to share internal thinking.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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.
 
 
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NBC News:
Democrats launch new inquiry into Corey Lewandowski
Marie Gottschalk / Bloomberg:
The Trump Administration Turns a Blind Eye to White-Collar Crime
New York Times:
‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran
Politico:
Gabbard plans to shift coveted, CIA-backed high-tech fund to her office
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
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
How Trump Killed Conservatism
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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
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
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