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| Hey Patriots! | President Trump paid tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson following the civil rights leader's passing at 84, calling him "a good man" and "a force of nature." | In a Truth Social post, Trump said he knew Jackson long before entering politics and praised his "personality, grit, and street smarts." The president highlighted years of cooperation, including providing office space for Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition and working on criminal justice reform and long-term funding for HBCUs. | | Trump also noted Jackson's influence in national politics, saying he played a significant role in shaping modern Democratic leadership. | Despite political differences over the years, Trump's message was clear: respect where it's due. | Don't miss the rest of today's must-see Trump news below! | —Nick | In today's email: | 🔔 Trump Blames Democrats as Shutdown Continues
🌊 Trump Slams Maryland Governor Over Sewage Spill
🕊️ Trump Remembers Jesse Jackson
🗳️ Senate GOP Hits 50 Votes for Trump-Backed Voter ID Bill
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Check out all the latest developments and more below! | | | | | 🌊 Trump Slams Maryland Governor Over Sewage Spill
A ruptured sewage pipe interceptor in Cabin John, Maryland has released an estimated 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River, prompting Trump to order an all-of-government federal response. Trump posted on Truth Social calling it a "massive ecological disaster" caused by "gross mismanagement of local Democrat leaders," singling out Gov. Wes Moore and also referencing the ballooning cost overruns on the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild in Baltimore. Moore's spokesperson fired back, saying Trump "has his facts wrong — again," arguing that the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor pipeline and that the Trump administration's own EPA refused to participate in a major legislative hearing on the cleanup. Maryland did take some steps, including issuing an emergency shellfish harvesting closure downstream from the spill, which has sent E. coli counts surging as far south as the Harry Nice Bridge — nearly 60 miles from Washington. Trump also noted that FEMA's response capacity is constrained by the ongoing DHS partial government shutdown, which Democrats have kept alive by blocking a funding deal. | 🕊️ Trump Pays Tribute to Jesse Jackson
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died at 84, and Trump took to Truth Social to remember him as "a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and street smarts" who "truly loved people." Trump pushed back against accusations of racism, listing several ways he said he supported Jackson over the years, including providing office space for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition at 40 Wall Street and working to pass criminal justice reform when, as Trump claimed, no other president would try. Trump also credited himself with securing long-term funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, calling it something other presidents "would not do," and said Jackson was an influential supporter of Opportunity Zones. In a notably candid aside, Trump wrote that Jackson "had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand." Jackson's family described him as a "servant leader" who gave his life to the "oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," and asked the public to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he championed. | 🗳️ Senate GOP Hits 50 Votes for Trump-Backed Voter ID Bill
Senate Republicans secured the backing of all 50 members of their conference for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, following a pressure campaign by the White House and conservative senators over the past several weeks. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was the 50th Republican to sign on, and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who led the charge in the upper chamber, said he was "ecstatic" about the progress and hoped the Senate would move to consider the bill as soon as the week after the State of the Union address. The bill requires voters in federal elections to prove citizenship through photo ID and documentation such as a passport or birth certificate, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Democrats would fight it "tooth and nail," calling it "Jim Crow 2.0." Eliminating the filibuster to pass the bill doesn't have the votes, so Republicans are exploring whether to restore the standing, or talking, filibuster — which would require Democrats to physically hold the Senate floor and publicly argue their opposition rather than simply withholding votes. Trump warned in a Truth Social post that if Congress can't get the SAVE Act passed, he would consider pursuing the same outcome through an executive order, calling voter ID a "CAN'T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND." | ⚖️ GOP Lawmaker Breaks Ranks to Limit Trump's Pardon Power
Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska became the first House Republican to sign onto a Democrat-led effort to create a congressional review process for presidential pardons, joining legislation introduced by Rep. Johnny Olszewski of Maryland. The bill comes after Trump pardoned five former NFL players whose charges included perjury, drug trafficking, and counterfeiting — a move Olszewski called part of "a disturbing pattern of abuses of the presidential pardon power benefiting the wealthy and well-connected." Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general who has already announced he won't seek re-election, said in a statement that "the pardon authority has been abused" and that Congress's ability to provide oversight has weakened over multiple administrations. Under the proposed constitutional amendment, Congress could initiate a pardon review if called for by 20 House members and 5 senators, with a two-thirds vote in both chambers required to nullify a pardon — after which the president would be barred from issuing that same pardon again to the same recipient. Bacon has previously broken with Trump on other separation-of-powers issues, including voting with Democrats to terminate the president's emergency declaration at the northern border that had been used to justify tariffs on Canada. |
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| | | | | | 🔔 Trump Blames Democrats as Shutdown Continues🔔 | The partial government shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding stretched into its fourth day Tuesday, with Senate Democrats and the Trump administration still struggling to reach a deal. Negotiations were essentially at a standstill through much of Monday after little to no activity over the weekend. The White House submitted a counteroffer to Democrats' list of demands midway through last week, which Senate Democrats rejected and then used to justify blocking all attempts to fund DHS. | Late Monday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's office announced Democrats had sent a counterproposal back to the White House, offering the first sign of movement in days. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he was cautiously hopeful but skeptical, noting that Democrats pulled the same slow-walking tactic during last year's 43-day shutdown. | "We'll see if they are at all serious about actually getting a solution to this, or whether they just want to play political games with these really important agencies," Thune told Fox News Digital. The Trump administration said it "remains interested in having good-faith conversations with Democrats" and reiterated that "President Trump has been clear — he wants the government open." | The shutdown is affecting several DHS functions beyond immigration, including the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service. ICE operations are unlikely to be significantly affected, however, as separate legislation backed by Trump allocates billions of dollars specifically to immigration enforcement. The shutdown stems from Senate Democrats' demand for a list of ten reforms to how ICE conducts enforcement operations. | Democrats pushed for those reforms after federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis last month. Senate Republicans have signaled some flexibility but have drawn hard lines against certain demands, such as requiring ICE agents to obtain judicial warrants before enforcement or prohibiting them from wearing face coverings during operations. | Sen. Elizabeth Warren framed Democrats' position as a straightforward accountability issue, saying, "Either you think ICE agents are special, and they get to own our streets with no accountability, or that ICE agents should follow the same rules as everyone else." Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, called the shutdown a Democrat-created crisis and said Republicans "have nothing to do with it." He credited his administration for falling crime numbers, even as data shows murder and violent crime had been declining in major cities before his return to the White House. | Trump also tied the shutdown to the broader fight over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, claiming Democrats blocked DHS funding in part because they oppose the bill's requirement that voters prove citizenship through photo ID, a passport or a birth certificate. "They don't want voter ID because they want to cheat in elections," Trump said. | The SAVE Act passed the House and would impose stricter documentation requirements in federal elections, a measure Democrats have resisted including it in long-term funding deals. Trump said he would be willing to meet with Democrats to find a resolution but insisted that the administration "has to protect our law enforcement." He also confirmed his State of the Union address, scheduled for next week, would proceed even if the shutdown continued. Thune called it "wrong" for Democrats to "use these folks as collateral in yet another harmful government shutdown," adding that the standoff is becoming a pattern of political brinkmanship at the expense of essential government services. | | | | | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 🏌️ A man identified as Paul Messer was arrested on a battery charge outside Trump's West Palm Beach golf course after getting into a verbal dispute with a woman and striking her multiple times in the upper chest and neck with a metal flagpole, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. A photo later emerged appearing to show Messer holding an anti-Trump flag while arguing with a woman wearing a pro-Trump hat. The altercation came just weeks after Trump played golf at the same club with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with college football coaching legends Urban Meyer and Nick Saban rounding out the foursome. | 😬 Trump publicly slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's performance at the Munich Security Conference, calling it "not a good look for the United States" after she appeared to stall for nearly 20 seconds when asked whether the U.S. should send troops to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, and separately claimed Venezuela is located below the equator. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump also went after California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also attended the conference, saying "these two people are incompetent" and later posting on Truth Social that "AOC and Newscum were an embarrassment to our Nation." Trump notably drew a contrast with Hillary Clinton, saying that while she is "Trump deranged," she is at least competent - unlike the other two. | ☢️ The State Department's Under Secretary for Arms Control, Thomas DiNanno, publicly revealed at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament that the U.S. has evidence China conducted a nuclear explosive test in 2020, and that Beijing has been preparing for tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons — using "decoupling" techniques to muffle seismic signals and avoid detection. The allegation has reignited debate in Washington over whether the U.S. can maintain its decades-long moratorium on nuclear testing. DiNanno's remarks came in the context of the Trump administration's rejection of Putin's offer to extend the New START treaty, with DiNanno calling for "a new architecture" that would cover Chinese nuclear weapons. | 🌿 Former Reagan-era Education Secretary and "drug czar" William Bennett is publicly breaking with Trump over the president's executive order directing the Justice Department to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. Bennett told reporters "I love almost everything Trump does, but I don't love this," arguing that rescheduling would normalize a drug he considers a gateway to addiction. The White House defended the order, with spokesman Kush Desai saying it fulfills Trump's pledge to "expand medical research into applications of marijuana and cannabidiols" and calling it a historic action that will benefit veterans. | 🏳️🌈 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans to introduce legislation that would designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized symbol, giving it the same federal protections as the U.S. flag, military flags, and POW/MIA flags. The push came after a Department of Interior memo signed by National Park Service Acting Director Jessica Bowron ordered "non-agency" flags removed from national parks, resulting in the Pride flag being taken down from the Stonewall National Monument. Schumer's bill, which has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled Senate, would prevent any future administration from removing it. | God bless,
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