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8:20 AM ET, March 27, 2026

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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Effort to fund TSA, most of DHS shifts to House  —  Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter.  Subscribe here or in the box below:  —  Close  —  Thank you for signing up!  —  The latest in politics and policy.  Direct to your inbox.  Sign up for the Morning Report newsletter
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Politico:
Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS … Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the outcome “unfortunate” Friday.  —  “The Dems wanted reforms.  We tried to work with them on reforms.  They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we're going to have to fight some of those battles another day,” he said.
John Yoon / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown  —  The bill excludes funding for ICE and the Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers.  The House could consider the package on Friday.  —  The Senate voted early Friday to fund the Department …
Mike Rogers / Punchbowl News:
3/27/26☀️ AM: … After 41 days, the Senate voted early Friday morning to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, excluding ICE and CBP, ending a bitter impasse that laid bare the inability of both parties to close out an agreement.
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump to sign executive order to fund TSA agents amid DHS shutdown  —  President Trump announced on Thursday he will sign an executive order to “immediately” pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers amid the ongoing shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jonathan Tamari / Bloomberg:
Some Republicans Raise Questions About Iran War Plans
Discussion: Jewish Insider and Newsweek
Washington Post:
Senate passes bill to reopen much of DHS after Trump moves to pay TSA officers
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Push White House to Declare National Emergency to Pay TSA Agents
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Thune lays out next steps after Trump's move to restore TSA pay
Discussion: NOTUS, ABC News, Vox and Politico
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump's Signature Is Set to Be Added to America's Currency  —  President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.  —  President Trump's signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
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David Lawder / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's signature to appear on US currency, Treasury says, ending 165-year tradition  —  U.S. paper currency will bear President Donald Trump's signature to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, a first for a sitting president …
Aidan McLaughlin / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Donald Trump to Add His Signature to US Currency, a First For a Sitting President  —  As Vanity Fair can exclusively report, Trump's Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of US dollar bills.  —  President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term …
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump's signature to appear on paper currency in a first for a sitting president
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive: Pentagon Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops to the Middle East  —  The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump extends deadline for Iran negotiations  —  President Trump extended the deadline for negotiations with Iran and paused his threat to bomb Iranian energy facilities by another 10 days. … - Trump's initial five-day pause on strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure was supposed to expire Saturday …
Wall Street Journal:   The U.S. Military Assets Damaged or Lost in the Iran War
New York Times:
Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion …
Christine Mui / Politico:
Judge pauses Anthropic's supply chain risk designation … Lin added that the court's record supports “an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government's contracting position in the press.”  —  By granting Anthropic's request, Lin removed the stigma of the designation …
Scott Waldman / Politico:
Trump faces new oil shock threat as Iran eyes second strait … The strait, hundreds of miles from the Strait of Hormuz, at Yemen's southwestern tip, is a pathway for ships carrying about 10 percent of the world's oil and natural gas supplies.  —  Bab el Mandeb has been targeted previously by the Houthis …
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Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
FBI probe of 2020 election count in Georgia faces crucial court hearing  —  A federal judge Friday will consider Fulton County's request for the return of thousands of ballots seized by President Donald Trump's Justice Department.  —  The FBI's investigation of the 2020 election results …
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New York Times:
Where Trump Has Installed Election Deniers in Government
Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
Janet Mills and Graham Platner battle for female voters in Maine's key Senate race  —  The voting bloc will play an important role in the Democratic primary and in November after GOP Sen. Susan Collins won female voters in her last race.  —  Gov. Janet Mills and oyster farmer Graham Platner …
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Washington Post:
U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon  —  More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon's limited supply.  —  The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles …
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For  —  from the bad-defendants-make-bad-law dept  —  First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining …
Scott MacFarlane Reports:
NEW: “It's a bad f**ing idea”, Congress blasts Trump Admin. war briefings  —  “It's a bad fucking idea,” he said into the phone in a tone so calm and measured, the words landed unexpectedly, but powerfully.  —  Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat who is the ranking member …
Washington Post:
As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next  —  With polls against the conflict, the president faces a dilemma: Wrapping up the fighting risks leaving a more dangerous Iran behind.  —  As President Donald Trump edges toward a self-imposed deadline for Iran to strike …
Discussion: Fox News
Elias Isquith:
“Margin Call” in the age of “Epic Fury”  —  The allegations of insider trading tied to the Iran war had a familiar shape: people close enough to power to know what was coming using their knowledge of a pending catastrophe to profit before it became public.  —  For millennials …
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
For Trump, a Deadline Isn't Always a Deadline  —  Plus, the Senate approves funding for most of DHS, moving to end long airport-security lines  —  Good morning.  I'm Aruna Viswanatha, filling in for Damian Paletta.  —  Today was supposed to be the last day of President Trump's pause …
Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
Powerful House Republican Joins Retirement Wave  —  Transportation chair Sam Graves says he is ready for ‘next chapter,’ pulls re-election paperwork  —  WASHINGTON—Republican Rep. Sam Graves, the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, is pulling his plans to seek re-election …
Politico:
Trump plays Texas hold 'em with Senate endorsement … Paxton, though, hasn't rested his case.  He traveled to Mar-a-Lago last Friday for a Palm Beach County GOP dinner, and was spotted speaking to Trump himself, according to three sources familiar.  —  Trump and Paxton were on the patio …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Cabinet to huddle to talk midterms, economy … - Trump's team believes the economy — above all other issues, including any anxiety over the president's actions on Iran or immigration — will drive voter sentiment heading into the November elections.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Kennedy's Vaccine Agenda Hits Roadblocks, Diminishing His Clout  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine skepticism is posing challenges for the Trump administration.  Top health jobs are unfilled, and a court has blocked his vaccine schedule changes.
Discussion: The Guardian
Jeanne Kuang / CalMatters:
California sheriff says his seizure of more than 600,000 ballots is ‘normal law enforcement’  —  Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco says it's coincidence he got a California ballot seizure warrant from a judge who praised him and whom he endorsed in 2022.  —  Riverside County Sheriff …
Harold Hutchison / The Daily Caller:
‘Appalling’ Video Shows Protesters Cheer American Troops Returning Home From Iran War ‘In Caskets’  —  Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”
Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
Roman Catholic Churches See a Surge of New Converts  —  Bishops are trying to understand what's behind the wave.  People joining the church described their reasons as highly personal.  —  People are joining the Roman Catholic church in surprising numbers.
 
 
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore's minister for foreign affairs …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly
Discussion: Mediaite and Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Trump Said This Policy Would Make Manhattan a ‘Ghost Town.’ He Was Wrong.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
ICE is trying to deport Iranians. The war is getting in the way.
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Mullin has a limited window of time to prove himself at DHS
Catherine Kim / Politico:
What Happens When MAGA Goes Global
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Ashley Gold / Axios:
White House AI rollout exposes widening rift
Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
Epstein survivors sue Trump administration and Google over release of private information
Discussion: KPNX
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Notifies California and Maine of Investigations into Whether Housing Biological Men in Women's Prisons Violates Constitution
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House Republicans huddle with Johnson to plot party-line package
Ian Ward / Politico:
MAGA is growing anxious over Orbán's fate
Discussion: The Guardian and Politico
 

 
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
A US judge grants Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DOD's decision to blacklist the company

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Sony says it plans to raise the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally beginning on April 2; the PS5 will cost $650, PS5 Digital $600, and PS5 Pro $900

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as an exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri
 
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