ICE Invaded Child’s Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting
In March, the Trump administration raided what they called a Tren de Arauga gang gathering in Texas, arresting dozens of people at five in the morning.Two months later, The Texas Tribune reports that...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Attack on Columbia Could Shut It Down Completely
Despite kowtowing and bowing its head, Columbia University is now the victim of more attacks from the Trump administration.The Department of Education challenged the Ivy League school’s accreditation...
View ArticleTrump Turns Sharply on Musk as Harsh New Data Wrecks Case for GOP Bill
President Donald Trump appears to have finally turned on Elon Musk over his scalding criticism of the “big, beautiful bill.” At a presser, House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that Trump told him he’s...
View ArticleTrump’s Pardon Power Isn’t as Absolute as He Thinks
In 2017, President Donald Trump insisted that his power to pardon was “complete”—a claim consistent with his generally absolutist views of the office’s powers, and one also inherited from his...
View ArticleMissouri’s Historic Abortion Victory Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes
Just a few months ago, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure to protect abortion rights. That measure, known as Amendment 3, added a “reproductive freedom” amendment to the state constitution. It...
View ArticleA Trump Tariff Case Study: Can the U.S. Again Be the Power Tool King?
My DeWalt 20-volt cordless drill/driver combo set is a beaut—powerful, smooth, comfortable in the hand, and not too expensive; I got it on sale for about a hundred bucks. It’s also a tribute to the...
View ArticleStephen Miller Erupts in Fury Over Low Arrests—and Hands Dems a Weapon
The potential deportation of people like Carol Hui, which has shocked locals in the Missouri town where she’s lived for 20 years, has inspired a searching debate: What did people think they were voting...
View ArticleTrump’s Vision of Government: Members Only
“No MAGA left behind.” So read the tweet sent by Donald Trump’s pardon attorney, Ed Martin, following the president’s pardon of former Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins. Jenkins was...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Turns Hard on Musk as GOP Bill Hit by Harsh New Data
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 5 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleBiden Slams Trump’s “Ridiculous” Revenge Probe
President Trump is still trying to turn President Joe Biden’s autopen use into a real scandal, announcing an investigation Wednesday into the pen and its role in an alleged coverup of Biden’s cognitive...
View ArticleTrump Signs Travel Ban Full of Contradictions
Donald Trump’s new travel ban is hard to make sense of.In a sweeping order Wednesday night, Trump fully banned travel from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran,...
View ArticleRand Paul Has New Target in Budget Bill Fight: Lindsey Graham
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul threw shade at his South Carolinian colleague Lindsey Graham while excoriating Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” on Fox Business.In an appearance Wednesday night, Paul...
View ArticleWill Budget Bill Fight Spell Doom for Trump and Elon Musk’s Bromance?
Tensions are rising between Donald Trump and his biggest 2024 campaign financier, Elon Musk.The dynamic duo—who were practically inseparable after November—are driving apart over their differing...
View ArticleTrump Spent Millions Trying to Claim DEI Causes Plane Crashes
President Trump is spending $2.1 million on an investigation into whether diversity, equity, and inclusion policies played a role in the January plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport...
View ArticleSCOTUS Sides With Straight Woman in Sexuality Discrimination Case
The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to file lawsuits over “reverse discrimination.”The nation’s highest judiciary sided with an Ohio woman who claimed that she had been passed over for a job and...
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China Makes It Clear: Trump Begged for Call With Xi
Trump finally got his call with China.After Trump repeatedly told Americans that it was China that was so desperate to get him on the phone to discuss a trade deal, a recent post from the Chinese...
View ArticleGOP Senator Slams Howard Lutnick’s Bonkers Tariff Logic
Senator John Kennedy tore into Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday over his nonsensical answer on the logic of Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariff policy. During an appearance on MSNBC’s...
View ArticleMTG Flip-Flops Again on Budget Bill She Didn’t Even Read
DOGE Committee Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene is apparently “proud” to have voted for the “big, beautiful bill” that she trashed just Tuesday.During an exchange with Representative Robert Garcia in...
View ArticleTrump Says Germany Being Liberated From Nazis Was “Not a Great Day”
Does Donald Trump think that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is a Nazi? During a press conference with Merz Thursday, Trump seemed confused when the foreign leader brought up the anniversary of the...
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Elon Musk Says Trump Is Lying About Reason Why He Hates Budget Bill
President Trump told reporters Thursday that Elon Musk opposes his “big, beautiful bill” because it removes the electric vehicle mandate that subsidizes Tesla. Musk responded in real time, only adding...
View ArticleTrump’s Attacks on Climate Policy Are Even Hitting Exxon
Earlier this week, the Department of Energy announced that it was clawing back $3.7 billion that its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations had awarded, during Joe Biden’s administration, to 24...
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Tesla Stocks Plummet as Trump-Musk Breakup Finally Begins
President Trump told reporters he was “disappointed” in Elon Musk, and Tesla’s stock took a nosedive minutes later. This comes as the conflict over the predicted deficit increase in Trump’s “big,...
View ArticleTrump Commerce Sec Makes Bonkers Claim About Building... Bananas?
The Trump administration’s brilliant plan to use tariffs as a means to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. has run into a bit of a hitch: Not everything that the public wants can be manufactured...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Spiraling Over Trump Dumping Him on Live TV
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are turning to social media to publicly process their increasingly messy breakup.Musk took to X Thursday to air his big feelings after Trump claimed Musk “knew every aspect...
View ArticleElon Musk Goes Nuclear on Trump With Epstein Allegation
Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump escalated quickly Thursday, when the billionaire former bureaucrat hinted at the president’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and alleged human...
View ArticleElon Musk Yanks SpaceX Program After Trump Threatens to Cut Contracts
Billions of dollars are on the line as Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue their excruciatingly public breakup.“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts,...
View ArticleDemocrats, Let Trump and Elon Fight
On Thursday afternoon, Elon Musk called President Trump a pedophile.There are many layers to the extremely online (and extremely entertaining) feud between the president and a man who, until a few days...
View ArticleWhy Trump-Musk Feud Suddenly Has White House in “Full Panic Mode”
As you’ve surely heard, the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has erupted, with the two men trading attacks on each other for hours. As of this recording, the last big things to happen are that...
View ArticleThe Quest to Bring Young Men Back to the Democrats
In the months leading up to the 2024 election, and particularly after the ascension of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the presidential ticket, Democrats found themselves particularly vexed...
View ArticleTrump’s Odious New Demand of the Civil Service: Loyalty Oaths
The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their position to engage in partisan activity, and prohibits their membership in any organization that advocates the overthrow of the United...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Trump Has Created This Autopen Scandal
When Richard III seized the English throne toward the end of the Wars of the Roses, he pressured Parliament to legitimize his usurpation of the Crown from his nephews. Parliament responded by passing a...
View ArticleTranscript: Why Trump-Musk Feud Has White House in “Full Panic Mode”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
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Musk Lashes Out After Bannon Calls to Deport Him Amid Trump Fight
Elon Musk spent his evening calling Steve Bannon a “retard” after Bannon called for Trump to seize Musk’s companies and deport him following their fallout over the budget bill. Musk and Trump had a...
View ArticleKaroline Leavitt Snaps in Wake of Trump’s Brutal Court Loss
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went on yet another angry tirade against federal judges who rule against Donald Trump. During an appearance on Fox News Thursday night, Leavitt was asked to...
View ArticleTrump Unloads on Elon Musk in Damning New Interview
For months, Donald Trump and Elon Musk were practically inseparable. Now, a week after the Tesla CEO formally left the White House, the president has a new title for his ex-financier: “the man who has...
View ArticleTrump Says He’s Ditching His Tesla Amid Spat With Elon Musk
The breakup is really official now: President Trump is getting rid of his Tesla. Trump’s red Tesla with Florida tags will be given away or sold, according to Fox News. This comes after Elon Musk and...
View ArticleTrump Team Scrambles After Report He’s Killing Manufacturing Jobs
The labor market is slowing, but it’s all good news in the White House.The U.S. added 139,000 jobs in May, a slight decline from April, according to a jobs report released Friday. The unemployment rate...
View ArticleThere’s Only One Question Here: Can Musk Bring Trump Down if He Wants?
For starters, I say Donald Trump is due our congratulations and respect. He finally found a white Afrikaner he’d like to throw out of the country. The early conventional wisdom on the Trump-Elon Musk...
View ArticleRepublicans Prepare Bill Declaring “Free Palestine” Is Antisemitic
The House of Representatives is trying to pass a resolution making the term “Free Palestine” an official antisemitic slogan. Republican Representative Gabe Evans from Colorado introduced the resolution...
View ArticleTrump’s Breakup With Elon Musk Is Sending MAGA Into a Full Panic
MAGA is struggling to cope with the sudden rift between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the billionaire former bureaucrat they’d come to embrace as one of their own. Trump’s sycophants were left high and...
View ArticleICE Agents and Immigrants Stranded in Hellish Conditions in Djibouti
Donald Trump’s administration is forcing horrible conditions upon a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and a group of immigrant detainees in limbo from a paused deportation to South...
View ArticleThe Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think
As the war between Donald Trump and Elon Musk worsens, what’s truly odd about this whole spectacle is that the actual substantive disagreement between them seems to be of little interest to media...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard Installs Own Adviser in Agency Tasked With Watching Her
The intelligence community’s watchdog office has a mole in it.National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard squeezed one of her own advisers into the subagency tasked with monitoring her, potentially...
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GOP Rep. Whines About Muslim Man Leading Prayer (He Wasn’t Muslim)
GOP Representative Mary Miller—who once said that Adolf Hitler was “right about one thing”—wrongly identified a Sikh man as Muslim in a racist X post regarding who was allowed to lead prayer in the...
View ArticleHere’s How Much the Government Spends Flattering Trump
Grandiose efforts to boost Donald Trump’s ego are costing America a fortune.Trump’s second term is still shy of the six-month mark, but already, millions have been spent to flatter him.Just three...
View ArticleTrump Pardoned Proud Boy Leaders. Now They’re Suing the Government.
Donald Trump pardoned the Proud Boys for invading the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Now they want compensation.On Friday, a coalition of the far-right paramilitary group’s leaders filed to sue the federal...
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Russia Offers Elon Musk Asylum as Fight With Trump Intensifies
Russian officials are gleefully offering Elon Musk asylum, a sarcastic gesture meant to sow further discord between the billionaire and President Trump as their alliance implodes. “Elon @elonmusk,...
View ArticleTrump Brings Kilmar Abrego-Garcia Back, Completely Caving
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, is back in the United States to face criminal charges alleging that he transported undocumented...
View ArticleTrump to Ax Federal Funding for California as Revenge Tour Escalates
Donald Trump is directing agencies to see where they can slash federal funding to the state of California, in a move that could start as soon as Friday, according to CNN. While the Trump administration...
View ArticleIt Would Be So Funny If Trump Nationalized Elon Musk’s Companies
As one of the century’s stupidest, most high-profile feuds escalated yesterday, President Donald Trump at one point threatened to cancel the U.S. government’s expansive contracts with SpaceX and Tesla,...
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