NYTIMES (Adam Liptak) - Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits
The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.
AXIOS (Neil Irwin) - Trump gives blasé response to rate hike possibility
President Trump has spent much of his term bashing outgoing Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates enough. On Tuesday, he seemed surprisingly blasé about the possibility that incoming chair Kevin Warsh might end up raising them. Driving the news: A reporter on Tuesday noted that markets now think an interest rate hike this year is more likely than a cut and asked the president whether he thinks Warsh will deliver the lower rates that Trump has long demanded. - "I'm going to let him do what he wants to do," Trump said. "He's a very talented guy, he's going to be fine, he's going to do a good job." Between the lines: That's not how defenders of Fed independence would prefer a president phrase things. Once a Fed…
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - DOJ charges Raúl Castro
The Department of Justice is expected to announce criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro related to a 1996 incident that killed three Americans. More: https://tinyurl.com/yptr2hvh #Cuba #RaulCastro #DOJ
THEFEDERALIST (Jordan Boyd) - Unlimited Abortion Threatens Women’s Lives, Not Pro-Life Protections
The real threat to women’s health doesn’t come from states that limit or outlaw abortion, but from states that refuse to regulate it.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Finya Swai and The Hill) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad considered by US, Israel for Iran's leadership: Report
Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s president from 2005-13 and became internationally known for his Holocaust denial and staunch backing of Iran’s nuclear program.
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - TRUMP: We will drive out forces of lawlessness and crime
President Donald Trump calls for a strong hand against domestic and foreign crime.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Data centers depleting water, electricity? The Truth revealed: Robby Soave | RISING
Robby Soave gives his radar responding to the backlash surrounding data centers for their usage of electricity and water. #DataCenters #AI #RobbySoave
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Congressional Black Caucus and NAACP call for Black athletes to boycott SEC universities
Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are amplifying their calls for Black athletes to boycott state universities in the South, saying those schools have done nothing to fight the Republican gerrymandering that’s led to the elimination of majority-minority districts. Led by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the lawmakers are joining the NAACP and other advocacy groups in advising Black athletes to seek other schools until the universities in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) — a powerhouse of college sports — come out publicly against the GOP’s redistricting campaign. #NAACP #CongressionalBlackCaucus #Democrats #SEC #CollegeAthletics #CollegeFootball #SoutheasternConference #Redistricting
AMERICANTHINKER - Anti-billionaire Democrats in NY mull over a $250,000 taxpayer-funded wedding gift for billionaire Taylor Swift
There’s a Ricky Bobby analogy in here somewhere.
AF (2nd Lt. Georgia Utz) - CSAF, CMSAF visit Hickam to drive readiness, synchronize mission focus
CSAF Gen. Ken Wilsbach and CMSAF David Wolfe visited Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to engage directly with Airmen and reinforce the critical "fly and fix" mission essential to Indo-Pacific deterrence.