Add Republican objections to Trump’s China capitulations to the growing realm of defections from leaders of his own party.
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Posted inTAP
Constitutional Softball: Congress Gives Up Its Power of the Purse
After the shutdown deal, Trump has gone right back to withholding funds and dismantling appropriated entities.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Why Should We Replace Our ICBMs?
Intercontinental ballistic missiles are massively expensive, environmentally hazardous, and dubiously successful as a deterrent—even Donald Trump recognizes the madness of modernizing strategic nuclear weapons.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation
The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Hegseth May Be Required to Create Public Military Sex Offender Registry
Service members and their families would have to be notified about registered sex offenders on military bases.
Posted inPolitics
Crypto Week Revealed the Dittohead Congress
There are no ‘hard-liners’ in the Republican conference. And nobody interested in standing up for the institution of Congress either.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Progressive Caucus Opposes Defense Bill Over Excess Spending, FISA Extension
The caucus is recommending that members vote against the perennial defense authorization bill, in part because it could extend warrantless spying through this Congress.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Spying Extension Angers Broad Majority Favoring Reform
Speaker Mike Johnson inserted a four-month extension of a warrantless spying program into the annual defense policy bill.