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– China open to talks with Trump admin on lowering tariffs, ministry says
– Top Senate Armed Services Republican says Trump OMB’s budget ‘shreds to the bone’ military capabilities
– Former Trump official slams UN reform efforts as ‘eight and a half years late’
Brown University in House Republican’s Sights Amid Email Controversy
A brewing controversy over a “DOGE-like” email at one of America’s top universities has gotten the attention of Capitol Hill.
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wrote to Brown University on Friday morning urging the school to reconsider any disciplinary action against Alex Shieh, a sophomore who sent an email mirroring the style of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that asked non-faculty university workers what they did “all day.”
“Reports indicate that Mr. Shieh engaged in a journalistic act of contacting university administrative employees to inquire about their roles and responsibilities. This action, it appears, stemmed from his perspective as a student paying a substantial tuition fee and experiencing concerns regarding university facilities, leading him to question the allocation of administrative resources,” Nehls wrote…READ MORE
White House
‘FIERCE’ MAHA FIGHTER: Trump’s surgeon general pick touted as ‘fierce’ MAHA advocate before confirmation hearing
‘CELEBRATING OUR VICTORIES’: Trump declares May 8 as ‘Victory Day’ for World War II: ‘Going to start celebrating our victories again!’
GULF SHIFT: Trump’s interior chief to unleash Gulf drilling with major rule change
‘WHAT THEY DESERVE’: Trump says he’ll revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
‘FIGHTING THE FAKE NEWS’: DHS pushes back against claims of immigration enforcement at elementary schools
MILITARY MESS: Billions spent, warfighters wait: Inside the Pentagon’s broken buying system and the plan to fix it
‘100 DAYS’: Buttigieg ‘got nothing done,’ Duffy declares: ‘Pete appears unburdened by no longer being a cabinet secretary’
TRUMP V COURTS: Trump asks SCOTUS to strip protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants
Capitol Hill
GOP CLAPS BACK: ‘Protect’ the majority: Senate GOP’s campaign arm takes opposite tact to DNC’s Hogg
‘OUT OF CONTROL’: Trump dubs Dems ‘out of control,’ suggests GOP consider kicking them out of Congress for ‘REAL crimes’
CAMPAIGN BUZZ: AOC draws spotlight with Queens town hall as 2028 White House talk swirls
‘GREEN NEW SCAM’: Trump’s tax overhaul hits GOP turbulence over Biden-era green incentives
Across America
TAKE A NUMBER: REAL ID renews America’s age-old dread of the DMV
‘MANUFACTURING BOOM’: ‘Mississippi’s moment’: Gov Tate Reeves on economic growth from eliminating state income tax
‘SLAP IN THE FACE’: California lawmaker demands ‘accountability’ after illegal immigrant’s planned early release stopped by feds
IMMIGRATION BATTLE: Fla. AG to rebuff judge who ordered halt to state immigration enforcement: ‘The court has overstepped’
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