The United States Supreme Court conservative supermajority has been “unrelenting” in it’s “abuse of its shadow docket” — and is leaving “lower courts scrambling to figure out what, exactly, is ‘law’ on any given day,” Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern reports.

“Time and again, the conservative supermajority has altered or overturned precedent — usually in Donald Trump’s favor — without bothering to explain why," Stern writes. But, as the Slate Supreme Court journalist and attorney Madiba K. Dennie explain, one district judge is standing up to the Supreme Court.

According to Stern, “U.S. District Judge Myong Joun issued a really interesting order in the ongoing battle over Trump’s unlawful assault on the Education Department. … In May, Joun issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from destroying the department by firing so many of its employees that it couldn’t function anymore. The Supreme Court then froze that injunction without explaining why.”

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“But Joun also issued a different injunction in a related case that specifically barred the government from dismantling the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights and protected its employees from termination,” Stern adds.

As Stern reports, “after SCOTUS set aside the first injunction, the Justice Department asked Joun to halt his second injunction as well. On Wednesday, he refused, writing that the court’s ‘unreasoned stay order issued on its emergency docket does not make or signal any change in controlling law.’”

“So he saw no reason to undo his own injunction,” Stern notes.

According to Dennie, “Shadow docket stays are not supposed to have any precedential value.” The attorney wants district judges to “think a little bit creatively” if the Supreme Court "is going to take such liberties with the law.”

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To Stern, Joun was clearly “calling out the conservative justices here for disrupting lower-court decisions without any justification.”

Dennie calls Juan’s approach “a brilliant way of flipping the burden.”

“It brings to mind this concept of malicious compliance, where you’re technically doing what you’re supposed to, but in a way that actually thwarts the goals of the powers that be,” she says. “It also reminds me of uncivil disobedience—getting in the way, but using perfectly lawful tools.”

Read the full interview at Slate.

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Former Republican and founder of The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson on Sunday delivered a stark warning for Democrats as Texas Republicans work to change the state’s congressional map to provide President Donald Trump with more reliably red districts.

“Republicans are looking for a cheat code for the 2026 election,” Wilson explained on MSNBC. “They recognize already they're in deep trouble in a lot of these House districts across the country that are contested seats. They are now looking for a way to cheat on this.”

“As a former Republican, I will tell you, the ‘Just Win, Baby’ rule is the first and only rule," he continued. "If the Democrats do not go into this and think, ‘We’re going to have to have a countervailing amount of new seats in other states,’ they're insane They will get their heads handed to them."

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“Play the game the way they're playing it, because this is the game we are in,” Wilson urged Democrats.

Journalist Molly Jong-Fast agreed with Wilson, warning Democrats are in “an existential fight.”

“If [Republicans] have control of the House in 2026, I don't think they'll certify a Democrat in 2028, no matter who it is,” Jong-Fast explained.

Wilson later slammed Texas Republicans for kowtowing to the Trump administration.

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“The whole image that Texas Republicans had of themselves were, you know, ‘We're the libertarian independent cowboys. We don't need that that federal government telling us what to do,’” Wilson said. “And now it's like, ‘Yes, master, i'll go sit in the c——— chair.’ These people have lowered themselves so far into Donald Trump's obedient little errand boys that none of this fits with the so-called character that they play on TV. They're not independent. they're doing what Trump wants.”

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Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Friday explained why President Donald Trump is likely to side with Attorney General Pam Bondi over FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, telling CNN’s Erin Burnett it would be “a huge embarrassment” for Trump to fire his attorney general.

Bongino is reportedly considering resigning over Bondi’s handling of the “Epstein Files” after the Department of Justice and FBI “concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a ‘client list’ or was murdered,” according to a memo detailed Sunday by Axios.

Bongino — who in the past has “fueled” conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death and relationships with powerful individuals in government — didn’t show up for work Friday, Trump confidant Laura Loomer reports. And, according to Axios, “a source close to Bongino … said ‘he ain't coming back.’"

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Cobb, who served as a member of the Trump administration legal team during the president’s first term in office, said he was surprised the “Epstein Files” have proven to be such a thorn in his former boss’ side.

“I think it’s very odd that it's the ‘Epstein Files’ because I just don't think — and I certainly don't believe the president ever thought — the ‘Epstein Files’ would be this problematic for him,” Cobb said. “Not because, you know, he's not implicated. There are seven trips that he took on the ‘Lolita Express,’ the records are out on that. There are many pictures of him surrounded by 13-year-old girls on the plane … We’ve seen him and Epstein, you know, in pictures together and talking and recordings of, you know, their affection for each other.”

“But I think the theory that this would be what the circular firing squad would form on, I don’t think anybody saw that coming,” he added.

Cobb insisted Bongino “either has to come back from the weekend and say he's sorry, he had a bad day and looks forward to working with his esteemed colleagues and moving forward. Or he's gone.”

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“Because Bondi is not going,” Cobb said. “For a specific reason, which is Bondi, like [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth, is very senior to the other people in their departments who are screwing up. And while they've both been a huge embarrassment and done some just astonishing things … for the history of the country, if [Trump] terminates one of them, he picked him and he put him in those senior positions, and it'll be a huge embarrassment to him.”

“So the further down the pecking order you go, if you're Trump and his thinking if somebody leaves that's further down — if it's not the top dog, it's not as big a reflection on him,” Cobb said.

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who describes himself as a representative of “the base of the MAGA party that got [President Donald] Trump elected,” on Sunday slammed the president and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over the administration’s escalation of war with Iran.

Speaking with CNN’s Manu Raju, Massie urged the president to “go back and look at the first Iraq War, where the president came to Congress and we debated and voted before they waged war.”

“The notion that this isn't an act of war, I find ludicrous,” Massie argued. “This is a hot war. There are two nations, Israel and Iran, trading volleys of missiles every night. Every day. And we're a co-belligerent now in this war.”

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Massie added he’s concerned “this could turn into a protracted, prolonged engagement.”

“I’m here to represent the, you know, the base of the MAGA party that got Trump elected,” Massie said. “Most of us were tired of the wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and we were promised that we wouldn't be engaging in another one. Yet here we see this happening, and there's a, you know, the president and the administration say, ‘Oh, we're done. We've had our little bombing, and now this is over.’ But what happens if this drags on between Israel and Tel Aviv gets pummeled by Iran, is President Trump going to say ‘We're going to sit by and not do anything’ in that instance?”

“I'm just, I'm leery of this, given everything that's happened before,” Massie explained.

Raju asked Massie “about how the speaker of the House has handled this military escalation,” asking if he agrees with former Rep. Justin Amash that Speaker Johnson should “step down or be immediately removed because he has completely abrogated his responsibilities under the Constitution.”

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“Well, I think there's a conundrum there with the speaker's assertion that there was an imminent threat,” Massie said. “If there was an imminent threat, [why] not call us back from our recess? We were on recess last week, and I went to special effort to offer a War Powers Resolution while everybody was on vacation.”

“In reality, if Speaker Johnson thought that America was in danger imminently, he should have brought us all back to Congress,” Massie argued. “Yet he did not.”

Asked if Johnson should step down, Massie said he’s “not a fan of the speaker,” but “he's the speaker as long as Trump wants him to be the speaker.”

“If Trump gets tired of Speaker Johnson, he better clean out his desk because that's how he's speaker,” Massie said. "He's just hanging on by doing whatever Trump wants. And in this case, it's an abrogation of our responsibility to debate matters of war. that's what Trump wants, and that's what Mike Johnson gave him. That is wrong.”

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“The Constitution requires Congress to weigh in on this," Massie added.

“There's some argument that, ‘Oh, there was an imminent threat, so the president can act for 60 days without a vote of Congress,’" Massie explained. "But here's the reality: After 60 days, he has to stop unless there is a vote. So at some point, I think we're going to be able to force a vote unless Speaker Johnson pulls some shenanigans with the rules committee.”

Asked if the attack on Iran will “alienate [Trump] from the base,” Massie noted the president “doesn’t have to run for reelection.”

“But it will, I think, fragment our party, this action that he's taken,” Massie said. “And it's going to hurt us in the midterms. We could lose the majority over this one issue.”

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“I think this was a bad move politically, but it's also just a bad move legally and constitutionally and policy wise," he argued.

Asked if Trump broke a campaign promise by striking Iran, Massie said “absolutely.”

“He broke a campaign promise, and there are a lot of the base will say that, although not too many of my Republican colleagues will say that,” Massie explained. “They’re frankly afraid of him and they're also afraid of the Israel lobby in Congress that's given millions and millions of dollars to so many of my colleagues.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday launched an impassioned tirade against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over the Democrat’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s “impulsive” attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday argued Trump’s Iran attack “is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachments.”

“The president’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitutional and Congressional War Powers,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. “He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.”

“It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment,” the Democratic congresswoman wrote.

In response, Greene called Ocasio-Cortez a “pathetic little hypocrite.”

"YOU fully supported our military and IC running the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine," Greene wrote. ”You don't get to play anti-war and moral outrage anymore."

Read the full report at Newsweek.

Conservative political commentator and Hoover Institution historian Victor Davis Hanson is explaining why President Donald Trump’s military action against Iran on Saturday surprised many in the media, telling the Sunday Times “Trump is neither an isolationist nor an interventionist, but rather transactional.”

“The media fails to grasp that, so it is confused why tough-guy Trump is hesitant to jump into Iran, or contrarily why a noninterventionist Trump would even consider using bunker busters against Iran,” Hanson said. “The common thread … is his perception of what benefits the US middle class — economically, militarily, politically and culturally.”

Trump on Saturday announced via a Truth Social post that his administration “completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran.” The move came after Trump, on Thursday, suggested “a two-week window and ‘a substantial chance of negotiation’ with Iran,” The Atlantic reports. That two-week window, Atlantic reporters Michael Scherer, Missy Ryan, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Shane Harris, and Jonathan Lemire write, was a “smoke screen.”

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As the Sunday Times reports, Trump last week told reporters he’s “the one that decides” what “America First” really means. “Faced with a backlash from parts of his base over the prospect of the US supporting Israel in military action in Iran, the president said his word is final — ‘after all, I’m the one that developed America First’ — adding that ‘the term wasn’t used until I came along.'"

Of course, it’s not at all true that Trump is first to use "America First," as the Sunday Times points out with an extensive history of the slogan. But “he has driven the term back into usage,” Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer acknowledged. And that means “he has the most power to shape what it actually includes.”

But as a “transactional” president shapes the “America First” movement, members of the movement also shape the president's policies. As the Sunday Times wonders, “Is the president in control of the agenda — or is it the base that now owns it?”

“Enter the MAGA-verse — the network of former advisers, informal advisers and influencers free to speak, exerting varying degrees of influence on the president,” the Sunday Times reports. “One figure close to the White House says: ‘There are a bunch of people that we look to to see how things are landing.’ Indeed, the administration last week reached out to key figures as they tried to control the narrative. Now such efforts are required to contain the fallout.”

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As AlterNet previously reported, some of Trump’s staunchest supporters — including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon — warn the president’s military escalation risks alienating his base.

“There’s a lot of MAGA who are not happy about this,” Bannon said on his podcast shortly after Saturday’s strikes.

And Bannon’s opinion definitely matters among MAGA devotees.

“Everybody just folds to whatever big corporate interest there is and this administration is only slightly different to that,” an insider told Sunday Times. “Steve keeps a check on it.”

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But Trump's allies won’t turn on the president on a whim, the Sunday Times reports.

“For now, most agree — at least publicly — that Trump is king,” according to the Sunday Times. “Yet privately what is making the base so jumpy is this idea that Trump is being forced by the deep state into the default establishment policy position. If it happens to Trump, what chance does his successor have?”

For Hanson the historian, the mantra “Trump decides” rings true.

"Almost everyone who tried to redefine MAGA or take on Trump has mostly lost rather than gained influence,” Hanson said.
But it appears interesting times lie ahead in the battle for the soul of MAGA.

“The key question is whether MAGA continues after 2029, given Trump’s unique willingness to take on the left rhetorically and concretely in a way that far exceeds the Reagan revolution, and in truth, any prior Republican. Trump’s bellicosity, volatility, and resilience — his willingness to win ugly rather than lose nobly — ensure him credibility and goodwill among the base that in turn allows him greater latitude and patience,” Hanson explained.

Read the full report at the Sunday Times.

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Followers of the Make America Great Again movement, including vocal supporters of President Donald Trump, are voicing their frustration with the president after he launched a strike Saturday on Iranian nuclear sites.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Saturday. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

As Financial Times reports, former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast listeners “shortly after the strikes” that “an overwhelming majority of the people [in the US] don’t want to get involved in any of this.”

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Bannon accuses Israel of “essentially [forcing] President Trump’s hand” in the escalating conflict.

“A lot of people I know that are Israel supporters are going to say — why are we doing the heavy lift here and why are we engaging in combat operations in a war that’s a war of choice?” Bannon asked.

Rightwing podcaster Theo Von told his followers “it just feels like we’re working for Israel,” Financial Times reports.

“I felt like it was supposed to be America First,” Von said. “… I think to a lot of people it’s . . . you just start to feel very disillusioned pretty quickly . . . in our leaders.”

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Per the Financial Times:

Matthew Boyle, Washington bureau chief of rightwing populist news website Breitbart, said Trump had a lot of explaining to do supporters in his MAGA base who would have preferred the US to stay out of the war.

“He’s got to win this movement over and bring them with him, and take proactive steps to do that,” he said. “He’s got to win that trust back from people.”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who Politico reports "has clashed with Trump and is one of the most vocal Republican detractors of U.S. involvement in Iran," said the president's attack "is not [c]onstitutional."

Still, as Politico reports, some “Republican skeptics of U.S. military action against Iran [are] largely falling in line” with the president.

“Iran gave President Trump no choice,” conservative Charlie Kirk wrote in a tweet. “For a decade he has been adamant that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Iran decided to forego diplomacy in pursuit of a bomb. This is a surgical strike, operated perfectly. President Trump acted with prudence and decisiveness.”

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Former Trump attorney general pick Matt Gaetz likewise praised the president as “the Peacemaker.”

“President Trump basically wants this to be like the Solimani strike — one and done,” Gaetz claimed. “No regime change war. Trump the Peacemaker!

Read the full report at the Financial Times.

The U.S. Supreme Court “has undermined lower courts” and “effectively allowed the president to neutralize some of the last remaining sites of independent expertise and authority inside the executive branch,” University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw warns. And doing so could have a catastrophic impact of the rule of law in the country.

Shaw, writing for the New York Times, discussed a recent decision by the Supreme Court to “stay” rulings from the U.S. District Courts and the full D.C. Circuit. That ruling permitted President Donald Trump to fire high-level officials — a move previously considered “unlawful under existing precedent.”

Shaw in her essay argues against the “unitary executive theory” and its proponents’ “singular fixation on the president’s power to fire — a power the Constitution doesn’t expressly give the president.”

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“Even if you disagree — even if you think that Article II’s grant of ‘the executive power’ to the president includes the power to fire at will any high-level official in the executive branch — the court’s disposition of the case sends a profoundly dangerous message to the White House,” Shaw warns. “…Handing the president a win here suggests that the administration did not need to abide by Congress’s statutes or the Supreme Court’s rulings as it sought to change legal understandings.”

“This decision risks emboldening the administration further to act outside of our traditional constitutional order,” she adds.

Shaw writes:

In the past four months, the lower courts have done more than other government entities to respond to the chaos emanating from the Trump administration. They have enforced constitutional guarantees, required compliance with statutes and insisted on the force of the decisions of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court, by contrast, has undermined lower courts seeking to protect the rule of law and emboldened an administration eager to trample it. You can see why White House lawyers could feel encouraged to advise Mr. Trump of the correctness of a claim he was once mocked for making: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”

Shaw called the decision “radical,” arguing “it effectively overruled an important and nearly century-old precedent central to the structure of the federal government without full briefing or argument.”

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“Many of it decisions involving the presidency — including last year’s on presidential immunity — have enabled the president to declare himself above the law," Shaw warned. "The court’s latest order both enables the consolidation of additional power in the presidency and risks assimilating a ‘move fast and break things’ ethos into constitutional law."

For Shaw, the Supreme Court’s decision to hamstring lower courts could signal it believes “it retains the ultimate authority to check presidential lawlessness.”

“The danger is that by the time the court actually tries to exercise that authority, it may be too late,” she adds.

Read the full essay at the New York Times.

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CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday challenged Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) over President Donald Trump’s “closed-door” crypto event last week, arguing if it had been a Democratic president doing the exact same thing, he would be “outraged.”

"I really have a difficult time imagining that if this was a Democratic president doing the exact same thing, you wouldn't be outraged," Tapper said Sunday.

"Well, look, I don't know anything about the dinner, I was a little busy this past week as you know, getting the reconciliation package over the line” Johnson replied. "And so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about. I'm not sure who was there or what the purpose was.”

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The speaker went on to describe Trump as "one of the greatest deal makers of all time” before launching into a canned attack on former President Joe Biden.

"The Biden crime family, as they were named, earned that title. Why? Because they used shell companies," Johnson argued. "The difference, of course, is that President Trump does everything out in the open. He's not trying to hide anything."

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Prominent right-wing lawyer Gregg Nunziata on Sunday slammed White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller after the top advisor to President Donald Trump argued “the only process illegals are due is deportation.”

Miller was reacting to a federal judge’s Friday ruling that ordered the Trump administration “to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there, after officials acknowledged an error in his case,” CNBC reported.

The official X account for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, quoting the CNBC article on the judge’s ruling, berated “this federal activist judge” who “order[ed] us to bring [a Guatemalan man] back, so he can have an opportunity to prove why he should be granted asylum to a country that he has had no past connection to.”

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That DHS post prompted Miller’s attack on due process — a common refrain from the top Trump aideTrump aide. As the Daily Beast reports, “Miller’s influence on Trump was evident when, last month, he took to TruthSocial to mount a similar argument, claiming that there simply was not sufficient time or court capacity to afford every potential deportee due process.”

Responding to Miller, Nunziata, a Federalist Society contributor and former domestic policy adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, bemoaned the deputy chief of staff as a “propagandist” who “hurts the [White House] in court.”

“The White House could have a lawyer pushing an aggressive message with a chance of moving the law in its direction, or it could have a propagandist saying one untrue and unlawful thing after another,” Nunziata wrote. “It chose the latter, which hurts the [White House] in court and undermines public faith.”

Read the full report at the Daily Beast.

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A draft bill from the House Ways and Means Committee published Monday "would effectively end most of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax incentives,” the New York Times reports.

According to the Times, The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act offered “lucrative tax credits for clean energy” and spurred companies “to invest more than $843 billion across the United States in projects aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions.”

“About $522 billion” of that remains unspent, according to the Times. And if Republicans in Congress have their way, it will remain so.

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“Now, much of the rest, about $522 billion, will depend on action playing out on Capitol Hill,” the Times reports. “Starting on Tuesday, Republicans in Congress will begin a contentious debate over proposals to roll back tax credits for low-carbon energy as they search for ways to pay for a roughly $4 trillion tax cut package favored by President [Donald] Trump."

“While shrinking those tax credits could help Republicans save hundreds of billions of dollars, it could also cause companies to abandon plans for new nuclear reactors or battery factories,” the report adds. “More than three-quarters of pending investments were planned in Republican-held congressional districts.”

“It’s jobs, it’s tax revenue into local communities,” Ben King, associate director at the research firm the Rhodium Group, told the Times. “It does represent a meaningful economic change in some of these places.”

Chief executive of the American Clean Power Association Jason Grumet noted while contracts aren't yet being cancelled, companies are “not breaking ground” on new projects.

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“There is a remarkable tension right now, between probably the best fundamentals for investment in the energy sector that we’ve seen in a generation and the greatest amount of uncertainty that we’ve seen in the generation,” Grumet told the Times. “That is a collision that all manufacturing now is trying to navigate.”

Read the full report at the New York Times.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and former US Commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr. David Kessler on Monday offered a deep-dive into what President Donald Trump’s most recent physical reveals about the president’s personal health — and the state of U.S. health infrastructure as a whole.

As Maddow reports, Kessler “looked at the report from Trump’s annual physical last month,” and noted the president is on an “intensive lipid-lowering therapy” which can help reduce “significant risk of cardiac disease.”

Maddow described the president’s health status as a “success story.”

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“The president of the United States appears to be approving his own health through access to great medical care and great medical science, that’s what he gets,” Maddow explained. “Simultaneously, his administration is doing so much to hurt regular Americans’ opportunity to achieve those same good health outcomes the same way.”

The MSNBC host went on to note the Trump administration as “slashed” the budget for the National Institutes of Health and left employees at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “reeling from huge staffing cuts.”

Maddow explained Trump is “personally benefiting in his own health” while “simultaneously … destroying that infrastructure for everyone else.”

Kessler agreed, telling Maddow Trump “is destroying those institutions that gave birth to the treatments” he’s using in his own medical care.

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A CNN panel on Tuesday detailed the ongoing saga among congressional Republicans regarding President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” — a sprawling budget plan the White House hopes will tackle the president’s largest tax priorities, including no tax on tips or Social Security.

Last week, CNN detailed House GOP infighting regarding Trump’s budget priorities as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tried to sell members of his caucus on “on a contentious plan — backed by the hard-right House Freedom Caucus and others — to sharply reduce Medicaid payments to states that expanded the program under Obamacare.”

“[Johnson's] push drew a rebuke from multiple centrists in the room, who believed that idea was already off the table,” CNN reported.

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Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) told CNN in the aftermath of that meeting he doesn’t “want to be mean.”

“I think any time it looks like we’re actually hurting people, that’s gonna p——— off the American population. And if you p——— them off, they’re probably not going to vote for you,” Garbarino said.

Meanwhile, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) blasted his colleagues for “burying their head in the sand and already trying to worry about elections next year, when the best way to win elections is to actually deliver.”

"We have to address Medicaid,” Roy argued. “My colleagues who are saying that they won't touch it are the same colleagues, by the way, who want their SALT caps increased.”

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Encapsulating the tensions within the Republican conference, Rep. Nick Lakota (R-NY) replied to Roy’s criticism with a simple and succint “boo-hoo.”

Speaking on CNN Tuesday, Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha called the GOP squabble “Republican on Republican crime”

“I was just sitting back eating my popcorn,” he said.

Republican strategist Ashley Davis warned “House Republicans are walking the plank on taking this vote.”

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CNN’s Phil Mattingly noted “the president has a lot of red lines that his administration has made clear has to be in the ‘big, beautiful bill,’ — no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, deductions for car loans”

“These are things that cost a lot of money,” Mattingly explained. “There are priorities that both Senate Republicans and House Republicans have on their own, that they are trying to squeeze into this ‘big, beautiful bill.’ This bill is going to cost a lot of money as is, because you’re extending those 2017 tax cuts while including the president's must-have red line items.”

“The view inside the White House has long been they ain't got no other choice,” Mattingly added before noting Democrats feel emboldened to fight the GOP in the midterms regardless of what happens with the budget bill.

“You might as well be serving up the Democrats on a silver platter at this point,” CNN host Erica Hill replied.

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Vice President JD Vance made an abrupt about-face this week as the escalating tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India began “spiraling out of control,” Bloomberg’s Mario Parker explained Sunday.

As CNN’s Manu Raju reported, Vance on Thursday downplayed the United States’ role in brokering peace between Pakistan and India, arguing the tensions are “fundamentally none of our business.”

“India has its gripes with Pakistan. Pakistan has responded to India,” Vance told Fox News. “What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not going to get involved in the middle of a war that's fundamentally none of our business.”

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“Yet JD Vance and [U.S. Secretary of State] Marco Rubio did intervene,” Raju reported Sunday, asking Parker what he’s “learning about the way this played out behind the scenes.”

“What we're seeing is the fact that reality has met doctrine, right?” Parker replied. “The [Make America Great Again] doctrine of ‘America First.’ None of our business. Hands off of foreign affairs — but the reality of two nuclear-armed nations quickly escalating.”

Parker said “the messages that the U.S., that Washington, was sending to both countries just was going unheeded.”

“Things were spiraling out of control,” Parker added.

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After the reporter detailed the escalation between the two nations, he noted the White House realized “this was, again, spiraling out of control.”

According to Parker, Vance briefed President Donald Trump on a plan to call Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Rubio “worked his his diplomatic ties."

“And then we got to a ceasefire,” Parker explained.

Raju interjected, adding it’s “important [to note] that [ceasefire] is tenuous right now.”

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“There still are embers burning,” Parker explained before the rest of the panel weighed in.

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'ABC News on Sunday reported President Donald Trump is poised to accept “what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government” — “a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar” to be used “as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation.”

According to ABC News, “the gift is expected to be announced next week” after “lawyers for the White House counsel's office and the Department of Justice drafted an analysis for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that is legal for the Department of Defense to accept the aircraft as a gift and later turn it over to the Trump library.”

As AlterNet reported Sunday, the proposed gift — which aviation industry experts told ABC is estimated to value "about $400 million” — stunned Democrats and journalists alike. But, as news of the plane plan proliferated on social media Sunday, even some Republicans were concerned about conflicts of interest arising from the proposal.

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“I’m sure the podcasters who are deeply alarmed by foreign influence will be all over this,” National Review editor Philip Klein wrote Sunday on X.

“Call me a crazy RINO neocon, but I think it’s bad for the President of the United States to accept a $400 million ‘gift’ from an Islamist regime that funds terrorist organizations that murder Americans,” conservative writer and podcast host Ian Haworth argued.

Conservative radio host Erick Erickson agreed.

“The Qatari government is not our friend, cooperates with Iran and its proxies, and funds terrorism and pro-terror propaganda around the world,” Erickson wrote in a tweet Sunday.

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The Bulwark podcast host Tim Miller suggested Trump’s interest in receiving a gift from Qatar undermines the president’s “anti-semitism initiative.” The Trump administration has threatened funding for private universities over what it claims is a failure of universities to address rampant antisemitism on campus.

“Hamas’ sugar daddies are giving Trump a fancy plane? I guess the admin’s anti-semitism initiative has some carve outs,” Miller wrote Sunday.

National Review commentator Stephen L. Miller offered a succinct analysis on reports of Trump’s gift from Qatar.

“That sounds like a very bad idea,” Miller wrote.

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Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson on Sunday warned President Donald Trump and his Republican allies about the impact of the president’s tariffs on the GOP, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper the White House could face a “really big political problem” if the president’s policies don’t pan out in the long term.

Tapper asked a “State of the Union” panel about the president being “OK” with a short term recession after Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker the U.S. is “in a transition period.”

“What would you advise talking to voters as you do?” Tapper asked Anderson.

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“I would advise keeping the focus on the benefits, and I really think that it's important for this White House to — whatever they're negotiating — land on something that short term pain is not going to be that painful," Anderson replied. "You know, people do want to see manufacturing come back to the U.S. They do want to see cost of living go down. They do want to see America make more things and make great things, and that's all fine.”

“Then keep the focus on that, because right now, in the short term, if we get to Christmas and kids have fewer toys, but the factory down the street hasn't reopened, that does create a really big political problem for the White House,” she added.

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