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[quote=Anonymous][b]House Republicans on Thursday delayed a vote on a war powers resolution that would restrict Trump’s ability to continue U.S. military operations in Iran after it became clear that the legislation would pass.[/b]
“Lawmakers will have to vote on the resolution in June, however, after they return from their Memorial Day recess.
Congressional support for the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, which Trump launched on Feb. 28 without lawmakers’ approval, has been slipping even among Republicans as the conflict disrupts global energy supplies and sends U.S. gas prices soaring.”
https://apple.news/AGRtoDD31RfGNQRPA43JbXg

[b]Fuming at Trump over 'slush fund,' Senate GOP skips town without passing ICE bill.[/b]
“Fuming about President Donald Trump's nearly $1.8 billion Justice Department fund that could compensate his allies, Senate Republicans derailed a massive immigration enforcement bill and left town until early June.
Unease about the so-called "anti-weaponization fund" reached a fever pitch during a Thursday morning meeting with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The DOJ's top lawyer was summoned to the Capitol to assuage lawmakers' concerns with what Democrats have characterized as a "slush fund" that may dole out money to individuals involved in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/21/senate-gop-doj-trump-weaponization-fund-ice-funding-bill/90198509007/

[b]Bipartisan House effort aims to kill ‘anti-weaponization’ fund.[/b]
“A bipartisan House effort is afoot to kill the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund created by the Justice Department that could pay allies of President Donald Trump, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the effort ahead of a formal announcement.
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) have drafted text and are taking steps to unveil the legislation soon, the people said.
Speaker Mike Johnson raised the level of urgency to block the fund among some congressional skeptics when he refused to say Wednesday whether violent Jan. 6 convicts should have access to the taxpayer money.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/21/congress/fitzpatrick-suozzi-weaponization-fund-00931761

[b]Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund. [/b]
“Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters sued on Wednesday to block anyone — including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters — from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for people who claim to be victims of politically motivated prosecutions.
…
More than 100 police officers were injured during the Capitol riot. Nearly 1,600 people were charged with Jan. 6-related crimes, but Trump used his pardon powers to erase all of those cases in a sweeping act of clemency last year.”
https://apple.news/ANBMgJ17CSQy6WUQJL2z6tA

[b]In blow to Trump, Republicans ready to scrap $1B for ballroom security.[/b]
“Some Republican senators expressed unease about the funding, which would have forced a difficult vote for some ahead of the midterm elections on a ballroom Democrats have slammed as a Trump vanity project.
Complicating matters further, the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled the security funding can't be included in the reconciliation bill ‒ which Trump wants Republicans to pass along party lines with a simple majority ‒ and instead needs 60 votes for approval. That would mean some Democrats would need to vote for it.”
https://apple.news/AYp2P4me-Qm2erBJbiDOjuw

[b]Republicans can’t get traction on affordability legislation.[/b]
“Republicans believe they’ve already taken some steps to address cost-of-living concerns, including the tax cuts included in last year’s “big, beautiful bill” that they hope Americans are beginning to feel benefits from.
…
The issue for congressional Republicans is that many of the ideas currently being batted around to address high prices divide their ranks, giving them an unclear path to Trump’s desk.”
https://apple.news/AyODUuVy7TgCzYe_-G-MTbw

[b]TACO Time: Trump's Reversal on China Buying U.S. Farmland Angers MAGA Supporters.[/b]
“During his 2024 campaign for the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to block Chinese nationals and companies from purchasing U.S. farmland as part of his “America First” agenda, and shortly after winning a second term, his Administration moved aggressively to curtail Chinese student visas. 
Today, however, President Trump has reversed course on both issues, a development that threatens to isolate many in his base who view China as an existential threat to U.S. sovereignty. Trump’s pivot on the issues was drawn into focus following his visit to Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.”
https://time.com/article/2026/05/17/Chinese-farmland-trump-students/

[b]Close advisers to President Trump fear the biggest substantive result of the China summit is heightened danger that Chinese President Xi Jinping will invade Taiwan in the next five years, potentially choking off the chips used to power AI to U.S. companies.[/b]
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/trump-xi-summit-china-taiwan-invasion

[b]Trump DOJ loses in Maine, Wisconsin as courts rebuff demand for voter rolls—Thursday’s dismissals bring the DOJ’s record to 0-8 out of 31 lawsuits brought against states and Washington, D.C. [/b]
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-loses-in-maine-wisconsin-as-courts-rebuff-demand-for-voter-rolls/

[b]WSJ Editorial Board: Trump Has Lost the Governing Plot.[/b]
“Republicans don’t want to say this publicly, but privately they do: President Trump’s personal political obsessions are hurting his Presidency, harming the chances for further policy gains the rest of this year, and putting control of the House and Senate in jeopardy.
That’s the backdrop to the GOP revolt this week in Congress on war powers and funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Trump’s unrelated priorities are handing Democrats gift after gift and forcing Republicans to take difficult votes that could cost them in November. His desire for political revenge is also alienating Members of Congress he will need this year.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-has-lost-the-governing-plot-4879dd64

[b]Huzzah!: Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum bill fails in House amid Democratic backlash.[/b]
“The bill failed by a vote of 204-216, with all Democrats and six Republicans opposing it.
While the bill was originally drafted with strong bipartisan backing, Democrats peeled away their support after it was amended to allow the president to “designate an alternative site for the Museum within 180 days” of the measure’s enactment. The legislation notes that the museum’s location will be designated as the South Monument site, located on the National Mall.
The amended measure also includes a transgender ban, noting that “the Museum may not identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.’’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5890090-smithsonian-womens-museum-bill/

[b]Federal judge bans ICE arrests in New York City immigration courts.[/b]
“Federal agents can no longer make arrests without exceptional circumstances in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur, a judge ruled.
The decision by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel on Monday brings an abrupt halt to a practice begun under the Trump administration that enabled agents to take into custody individuals who follow requirements to appear before immigration judges.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/federal-judge-bans-ice-arrests-in-new-york-city-immigration-courts/

[b]LOL: The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportations a year. Why it matters: Republicans fumed that former President Obama was "cooking the books" when he used the same playbook to tout record deportations during his administration.”[/b]
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-obama-deportations-statistics

[b]Phone data reveals 42% drop in Canadian visits to U.S. last year.[/b]
“A study by the University of Toronto suggests a roughly 42% reduction in visits to U.S. cities by residents of Canada last year. The drop — much steeper than official border crossing statistics suggest — is largely attributed to mounting political and trade tension between the two countries.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/canada-us-tourism-travel-decline/

[b]Plans for Australia's first Trump Tower scrapped due to 'toxic' brand, developer says.[/b]
“Plans to build a Trump Tower in Australia were scrapped on Wednesday as the developer declared the US president’s brand had become “toxic”.
Altus Property Group had signed a deal for 1.5 billion Australian dollars (£800m) with Donald Trump’s organisation to build a 91-storey hotel and residential tower on an empty block in Surfers Paradise, one of the most popular tourist destinations on Queensland’s Gold Coast.”
https://apple.news/AfrqPViRIQemoRv9sh7TXng

[b]Trump’s plan to use his library as a hotel sparks lawsuit.[/b]
“The litigants — who include a current Miami Dade College student — allege that the land transfer violates the Constitution’s domestic emoluments clause, which bars states from attempting to influence a president by giving him gifts. They argue that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his handpicked board of trustees at the state-operated college were wrong to give a nearly three-acre parcel in downtown Miami to Trump’s library foundation last year in exchange for $10. The county’s property appraiser had said the land was worth more than $67 million.
“With its waterfront views and central location in bustling Downtown Miami, the [Miami Dade College] Parcel would likely sell for over $300 million on the open market, according to local real estate experts,” the litigants wrote of the land. “But President Trump paid nothing for it.”
The lawsuit also cites Trump’s public comments in March that he expects to use his future library, which is being run by a nonprofit foundation, as a hotel.”
https://apple.news/A4jWFa4e1QiGuAU3e70Ujew

[b]A Republican U.S. Senate candidate says noncitizen truckers are making America’s roads unsafe. His own truckers have caused harm.[/b]
“ProPublica’s analysis of federal motor vehicle data from the past two years shows that Collins’ business has a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of trucking companies with substantial mileage. The analysis also shows that the company’s recent crash rate sits around the median of similar companies, while the rate of injury from those crashes sits in the top fifth.”
https://apple.news/A1VxSZiTzRvOvKHPz5gP8KQ

[b]Amazon is facing a new class action lawsuit accusing the company of failing to refund tariff-related costs it passed on to consumers through higher prices in order to appease the Trump administration.[/b]
“Consumers allege in a proposed lawsuit filed in Seattle that the tech giant collected hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful tariff costs by raising prices on imported goods before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February that President Donald Trump lacked authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose certain tariffs.
While thousands of companies have sought billions of dollars in refunds from the government following the ruling, Amazon has failed to do so, the complaint states, "not because it lacks a legal basis to do so, but because it seeks to curry favor with Trump by allowing the federal government to retain the funds."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/amazon-accused-keeping-hundreds-millions-tariff-costs-curry-favor-trump-administration

[b]Data Centers Are Splintering the American Right—Mounting evidence shows that Republican voters are rapidly turning against artificial intelligence.[/b]
“In the last week, I’ve seen a surge of Republican politicians pushing to temporarily ban data centers in conservative states. In South Carolina, Representative Nancy Mace, a leading GOP gubernatorial primary candidate, called for a statewide moratorium on new data centers. In Texas, the sitting agriculture commissioner Sid Miller proposed the same for the Lone Star State. Ditto in North Dakota where the idea got backing from a GOP primary candidate for a Public Service Commission seat.
I also witnessed a wave of anti-data center sentiment bursting forth online over the last few weeks. Major figures in the online right like Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson have been posting videos lambasting the pace and practices of the data center boom, joined by a flood of commentary on YouTube and conservative video platforms like Rumble. On X and Facebook, the right has split into factions with figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene siding with activists while other pundits and personalities play data center defense, mocking critics as misinformed and antithetical to free market conservatism.”
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/data-center-backlash-republicans

[b]Inflation rate projected to hit 6% in the second quarter, top economic forecasters say.[/b]
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/inflation-rate-projected-to-hit-6percent-in-the-second-quarter-top-economic-forecasters-say.html

[b]Nearly 800,000 Louisianians voted in the May 16 election, with voters rejecting all five state constitutional amendments put forward by GOP Gov. Jeff Landry.[/b]
https://www.wwno.org/politics/2026-05-16/may-16-election-results-louisiana-voters-reject-all-5-amendments-see-full-results

[b]Five Idaho members of an ultra-conservative group of lawmakers, called the Gang of Eight, lost their Republican primary elections…[/b]

[b]and…Democrats ran in all Idaho legislative districts, statewide and federal seats.[/b]
“This year, at least one Democrat ran in each of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts, for each statewide constitutional office and for all federal seats on the ballot, the Idaho Democratic Party says. That’s out of the 116 Democrats who filed for statewide, federal and legislative offices this year. That’s twice the number of Democrats who ran in Idaho in 2022, when just 58 ran, and up by dozens compared to 2024, when 89 ran, the Democratic Party said.”
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/05/20/six-idaho-republican-lawmakers-lose-primary-election-two-more-are-trailing/

[b]FAFO: GOP senator begs donors to help him 'pay for gas' after voting to continue Trump's war.[/b]
In a fundraising email titled "Alaska needs you!!" obtained by Raw Story, Sullivan told donors, "To continue ushering in America's Golden Age and delivering results for Alaska, I'm personally reaching out to you to ask for a grassroots donation of $3, $5, or $10."
The email continued: "Your donation will instantly go to the funds to: Recruit volunteers; Run digital ads; Invest in integral mailpieces to keep Alaska voters up to date; Pay for gas as we visit isolated rural areas of Alaska."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-senator-begs-gas-money-100418679.html

[b]Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement.[/b]
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-facebook-arrest-tennessee-bushart-b8c5808d77f47a2d93497d12cf0daf84

[b]Winning Bigly: Donald Trump Breaks Five Unwanted Polling Records Within Days.[/b]
Those unwelcome milestones, from polls by Fox News, New York Times/Siena, YouGov/The Economist and AP/NORC, range from record-high disapproval to slipping base support and rock-bottom economic ratings.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-polling-record-approval-rating-polls-11978079

[b]The biggest loser: Trump to skip his son’s wedding due to ‘circumstances pertaining to government’[/b]
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/trump-wedding-stay-in-washington-00934239

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