Trump fired General C.Q. Brown, our highest-ranking military officer. A four-star general, Brown served the country for 40+ years. The words they’re using to justify these firings like "woke" and "DEI" — we know what they mean. Why would they apply the term "woke" to him?

🗞️ I wrote about the budget fight this week over extending the 2017 tax cuts, which comes as Trump threatens trade wars & reciprocal tariffs targeted at allies, partners, & adversaries. Companies could get caught in the middle of another "tax tradeoff." thehill.com/opinion/515988…

US President Donald Trump's aid freeze has disrupted an anti-narcotics program at Mexican ports, eight people familiar with the situation reut.rs/3Quwmml

Moreover - in every administration, WHCA has advocated to expand access to news events, beyond just the pool. Making an event 'open press' or 'pool only' is up to the White House. Oftentimes, administrations limit access to 'pool only' because of security or space constraints.

What’s worse: the White House intentionally placed a Russian state media reporter in their hand-picked press pool for the Zelenskyy bilat, or they had no idea that a Russian state media reporter somehow made his way into the Oval Office with the President of the United States?

What just happened in the oval office was a planned ambush, designed to help a brutal Russian dictator and hurt America's security. Trump has become Putin's lapdog, and America's global power is hemorrhaging as America sides with dictators over democracy. What an embarrassment.

Some Republicans getting nervous about Trump's economic moves. Tough to reshore manufacturing and combat inflation when you're already in a worker shortage while trying to enact mass deportation and historic tariffs. Dereg and drilling only go so far, they fear.

📺Looking forward to joining Bloomberg TV Surveillance tomorrow morning as the Trump admin's steel & aluminum tariffs kick in and markets wrestle with increased economic uncertainty. Tune in!

The current national security advisor

Tell me you’re upset about not being in the group chat without saying you’re upset about not being in the group chat.

In the DNI’s own guidance, this type of information should be classified TOP SECRET. See for yourself: dni.gov/files/document…

30% plus on China and much of South East Asia, 20% on the EU, 25% on Japan -- Discounted v an inflated baseline = a massive shock

Erick Erickson Keep in mind that the numbers the Trump admin posted are not the actual tariff rates of other countries. So it's a tax increase being decided in a really stupid and random way by a bunch of morons. x.com/JamesSurowieck…

My statement on the charges filed against me:

This is going to be the largest health care roll back in generations. Literally generations! While many reporters are producing great coverage of the impact of this bill, it hasn’t gotten nearly the volume of attention one would expect for a generational cut in benefits.

Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was working until Trump pulled out of it. His own staff warned him not to because the alternative was war. Well, now we’re at war with Iran because Trump is weak, stupid and hated Obama more than he cared about preventing Iran from getting a nuke.

Iran might retaliate today, tomorrow or in months. Or a year from now, Iran or its proxies might blow up a bus filled with American tourists in Cyprus. No one knows what comes next. Bombing Iran started something that we no longer have the capacity to predict or contain.

So, again we’re at war in Middle East with no clear strategy, goal, or exit plan & little American support. Trump put U.S. troops, diplomats, and civilians in harm's way because he can’t stomach the hard-nosed diplomacy necessary and we’re all less safe because of his decision.

I'm not sure the public fully appreciates the impact of the deportation regime, which is about to get worse. thebulwark.com/p/the-shock-an…

More Toomey: “significantly increases the risk that inflation kicks up and accelerates, so I don’t think what [Trump] wants makes sense."