Hot news, House sends full DHS funding back to the Senate.
President Trump signed an executive order Friday paying 60,000 TSA workers their second missed paycheck after the Senate cleared a DHS funding bill Speaker Johnson immediately rejected. The SAVE America Act spent two weeks on the Senate floor without a vote — Majority Leader Thune declined every procedural tool available to force one.
Three simultaneous federal actions targeting 2020 election materials converged this week: a five-hour Fulton County evidentiary hearing in Atlanta, a grand jury subpoena on Arizona’s Senate president, and a court-supervised ballot recount in Riverside, California. The House Ethics Committee found Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on 25 counts; expulsion proceedings begin in April. Congressional investigators pursuing Epstein files accused DOJ of structuring access to require seven years to complete.
The Supreme Court took up mail-ballot receipt deadlines and asylum access at ports of entry; the 8th Circuit ruled undocumented interior arrests face mandatory detention without bond. Iran-backed hackers breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal Gmail. A Valero refinery explosion in Port Arthur shut 380,000 barrels of daily capacity. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s disclosed assets jumped 140-fold in one year. TrumpRx.gov fell short of its own launch claims. ACA enrollment dropped over a million as phantom accounts inflated the headline figure. The Supreme Court received $30 million in permanent residential security funding.
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