The Department of Labor’s historic threat to withhold funding from states’ unemployment insurance programs didn’t quite land with the weight the government apparently intended: Several states said they didn’t know much about the new directive.
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- The use of AI in military operations has prompted fierce discourse: Does the U.S. government have the appropriate guardrails in place to drop bombs using AI? A relatively obscure Pentagon policy document is now at the center of that debate.
- NOTUS repostedSenate Republicans are becoming increasingly frustrated with Trump after he tanked Jay Clayton’s DNI confirmation hearing today and hopes of renewing FISA this week. “He made a colossal mistake,” Sen. Thom Tillis said. w @alweaver22
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- President Trump torched the Senate’s chances of expeditiously confirming Jay Clayton to become the next director of national intelligence, effectively grinding the chamber to a halt as members try to pick up the pieces following the presidential blockade.
- Congress turned down President Trump’s request for funding for his modernization efforts at the White House – mainly out of concern that he would tap taxpayer dollars for his proposed ballroom. Now, the president is turning to a pot of money Congress approved last year for the
- NOTUS repostedNews: Senators suspect the White House is trying to stealth fund Trump’s ballroom Last week, OMB quietly shifted $350M from the Big Beautiful Bill for “White House security” OMB says this is needed for security upgrades and is consistent with the law, but senators are
- Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he is “kicking the tires” on a 2028 presidential bid.
- NOTUS repostedScooplet: Republicans quietly killed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's amendment to bar DOD from investing in companies tied to President Donald Trump, his Cabinet and their families. It failed in a party-line vote last week during SASC’s closed-door NDAA markup
- President Trump’s preliminary deal with Iran would give Tehran a path to oil sales, frozen funds and sanctions relief before a final agreement is reached. But Trump’s warning to Iranian leaders about what could happen if talks fail was blunt: The U.S. would bomb Iran again.
- Senate Republicans quietly killed an effort to bar the Pentagon from investing in companies tied to President Trump, his Cabinet or their families, rejecting a Democratic amendment targeting conflict-of-interest concerns.
- NOTUS repostedNew: Van Hollen, back from NH, tells me he’s "kicking the tires" on a 2028 run. “It’s pretty clear operating from within the confines or the halls of Congress is not a successful recipe for actually getting change.”
