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7:40 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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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 …
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 …
Gabe Castro-Root / New York Times:
ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports.  Here's What to Know.  —  The deployment comes as a battle over Department of Homeland Security funding has led to closed security checkpoints, long lines and missed flights.  —  Up to 150 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were deployed …
Barry Petchesky / Defector:
ICE Agents Deployed To Nation's Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing  —  The second government shutdown of the year, this one affecting only the Department of Homeland Security, went into effect on Feb. 14.  While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Cameron Peters / Vox:
ICE heads to the airport
Bloomberg:
Trump Says ICE Agents Shouldn't Wear Masks on Airport Duty
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,” …
Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
Watson v RNC: The Supreme Court's Conspiracy-Brained Justices Are Ready to Limit Mail-In Voting  —  The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case about the Republican Party's latest attempt to disenfranchise American voters.
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Israel Launches Fresh Wave of Attacks on Iran as Rift With Trump Grows  —  Donald Trump claimed Monday that the U.S. and Iran had moved toward a resolution to the American president's disastrous war—but Israel is still dropping bombs.  —  Trump claimed Monday that U.S. officials …
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The Bulwark:   Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head
Paul Krugman:
Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump pauses Iran energy strikes for 5 days while talks progress  —  President Trump told reporters his envoys had been negotiating with a senior Iranian official and claimed the parties were in agreement on many points. … - Iran denied any such talks had taken place and claimed Trump was just trying to calm the energy markets.
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Politico:
'We're in the testing phase': Trump admin eyeing Iran's parliament speaker as US-backed leader
Discussion: Reuters and The US Sun
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 …
Hannah Roberts / Politico:
Referendum defeat brings Italy's Meloni crashing down to earth  —  ROME — Italian right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's crushing defeat in Monday's referendum on judicial reform has shattered her aura of political invincibility, and her opponents now reckon she can be toppled in a general election expected next year.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Al Jazeera and Jacobin
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Reuters:
Italy's Meloni seen narrowly losing justice referendum, exit polls say
Discussion: Bloomberg, Breitbart and Politico
New York Times:
Bill Cosby Loses Sex Assault Lawsuit and Faces a $19 Million Judgment  —  A California jury found that Mr. Cosby had abused Donna Motsinger in 1972 after inviting her to attend one of his comedy shows.  —  A civil jury in California on Monday found that Bill Cosby had drugged …
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.
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss … The Defense Department said on Monday that it was taking a new approach to limiting access to media organizations, after a federal judge ruled on Friday that major parts of its current policy were unconstitutional, in a case brought by The New York Times.
Chris Bradford / New York Post:
Key Charlie Kirk mentor Jeff Webb dies in freak pickleball accident: ‘A dear friend to Charlie’  —  One of Charlie Kirk's key early mentors has died in a freak pickleball accident.  —  Texas businessman Jeff Webb, described by Kirk's Turning Point USA as a “visionary who helped shape generations …
NBC Chicago:
Suspect in killing of Loyola University Chicago student hospitalized, state's attorney says  —  Before Chicago police announced charges against suspect Jose Medina-Medina had been filed, ICE issued an arrested detainer, saying the Venezuelan immigrant entered the U.S. illegally
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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Independent
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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: The Hill and Jewish Insider
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: NOTUS, NewsMax.com and Bloomberg
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
The Crazy Bill for ICE Barbie's Cowboy Cosplay Is Revealed  —  GIDDY UP  —  It cost tens of thousands of dollars to create Noem's cowgirl look in the $143 million DHS ad campaign.  —  Kristi Noem spent almost $24,000 in taxpayer money on makeup and horse rental for the $143 million …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Mediaite
 
 
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Reuters:
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