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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.
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.
V-Dem's 24 percent decline, Freedom House's 81 out of 100, and Bright Line Watch's 57 out of 100 remain the operative numbers -- and no new data has contradicted them.
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.
Seven justices signaled skepticism of Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship while the president sat in the front row -- a 7-2 loss looks inevitable.