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Bureau: Washington
Trump promised 'Power Plant Day and Bridge Day' on Tuesday, told Iran to 'Open the Strait, you crazy bastards,' and signed off 'Praise be to Allah' -- the war's most extreme public threat.
The Senate unanimously approved a DHS funding deal on April 3, the House left for a two-week Easter recess without voting on it, and DHS workers have now gone two months without a paycheck.
Trump extended the Iran strike deadline on April 1, reimposed it on Easter Sunday morning, and tomorrow it arrives with no deal and no offramp.
The president replaced the nation's chief law enforcement officer with the man who defended him in his hush money trial, and the Epstein files are the wound that won't close.
Utah's John Curtis became the first GOP senator to draw a hard line on the 60-day War Powers clock, threatening to block war funding without a congressional declaration.
Five weeks in, the U.S. has confirmed at least seven manned aircraft lost, including a KC-135 crash that killed six and an E-3 Sentry destroyed on the ground at Prince Sultan.
Robert Swan Mueller III -- Marine, prosecutor, FBI director through 9/11, and special counsel who investigated Trump -- died March 20 at 81 after living with Parkinson's disease.