Friday, May 30, 2025
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Now, he's a bitter, deranged man shouting into the wind, desperately trying to get the attention of a young woman with athletic prowess and the intellect to understand when a man is pretending to be a woman to improve their athletic careers.
Rumors of That Ugly Trump-Musk Feud Appear to Be 'Greatly Exaggerated' As President Drops Big News
Are Trump and Musk now going to be mortal enemies, a notion that leftist pundits are openly salivating over?
Not so much, according to someone who might know what he’s talking about—President Donald Trump.
Karma Comes for Jake Tapper With Latest Show Ratings
Tapper is probably making a lot of money, even if it is a book about Biden.
But the book may have hurt his main job with CNN if he's losing what little audience they have left.
Trending Across Townhall Media
Chinese Invention Shows Problem With 'In Common Use'
This could be very bad as the military and police embrace the new technology while we're relegated to relics of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Florida Appellate Court to Pulitzer Board: Stand Up And Take Your Medicine in Trump Defamation Case
Either the corrupt Pulitzer board will have to try to settle the case with Trump or risk a very expensive beating in a trial on Trump's home turf.
Whose Fault Is the Gaza Aid Fiasco?
The UN and other "humanitarian" aid groups don't want outsiders horning in on their aid distribution racket. That's not very humanitarian of them, is it?
Top Trump Aide Just Dropped a Dire Warning If the Courts Aren't Reined in
The courts are undemocratically halting an agenda that the American people voted for.
That Ain't America: John Mellencamp Scolds Pacers Fans for Booing Visiting Knicks Celebrity Fans
We hate (love) to be the ones to tell you this, Mr. Little Pink Houses, but saying fans aren't allowed to boo other fans, particularly celebrity fans of the visiting team, is NOT America.
Today on Capitol Hill...
One more critter-free day on the Hill. They'll be back at it next week. Here's a little preview of what comes next on the reconciliation front:
However, Johnson’s work on reconciliation is far from done. This next stage may be just as difficult. When the House returns Tuesday, the chamber has just 13 days in session until Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised to have a reconciliation package on Trump’s desk.
The Senate will have to move extremely quickly under this timeline. And Johnson will have to work overtime to defend the House’s equities in this package – not only from Senate Republicans, but also from Trump, who has expressed openness to changing the House product.
The speaker will seek to protect House-crafted provisions on everything from SALT to the rapid rollback of IRA clean-energy tax credits to steep Medicaid spending cuts. Some GOP senators will want more, some won’t be comfortable going this far.
But every change the Senate makes will impact Johnson’s vote count when the reconciliation bill comes back to the House. At some point during the next few weeks, Johnson will almost certainly be forced to plead with skittish House Republicans to pass a revised reconciliation package with the debt-limit deadline looming around the corner in mid-July.
White House What's Up
President Trump will participate in a press conference with Elon Musk at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Then he heads out to U.S. Steel at the Irvin Works facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, where he'll deliver remarks on the U.S. Steel deal.
Vice President JD Vance shared his own thoughts about Musk's contributions to the administration and the country.
Full Court Press...
Thursday was yo-yo central on the tariff front with the courts. We had the Court of International Trade (CIT) decision late Wednesday, placing a hold on many of the tariffs enacted by the Trump administration, followed by a similar decision out of the D.C. District Court Thursday morning. And then an administrative stay from the Federal Circuit on the CIT's decision. The D.C. District Court decision has been appealed as well — we'll see what the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals does with that one.
READ MORE: Federal Trade Court Strikes Down Trump’s 'Liberation Day' Tariffs, Citing Overreach
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There was also another concerning ruling out of Massachusetts regarding the Trump administration's actions ending the Biden parole program.
And the Supreme Court issued one opinion — this one having to do with environmental review requirements.
As noted, Congress will be back in session next week.
The Supreme Court will issue additional opinions next Thursday.
I'm often asked if I miss the practice of law — I don't, to be quite honest. It had its moments, and I'm grateful for the experience I gained in almost three decades of litigating. But I don't really miss it — plus, I get more than my fill of law-related fun just writing on it here!
I do miss the people, though — co-workers who became friends and, really, like family. The nice thing about that is that we're still able to get together from time to time. I did just that Thursday evening with friends from my early days of lawyering. We all were in agreement that there's no way it's been 30 years (plus) since we were young pups fresh out of law school. (Even though it has.)
The topic of politics did come up, particularly as it relates to my present career. And some of us most definitely are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. You would think with a bunch of lawyers, that might turn a bit contentious. But it didn't — because we were old friends, talking face to face over drinks and enjoying one another's company.
I'd be willing to bet a good chunk of the animosity that seems to plague our public discourse these days would evaporate if people spent less time face-to-screen and more time face-to-face with one another.
How do you hold a sunbeam in your...paw? ????
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