1 Minute Political Update

In Rome yesterday, 50,000 people saw Pope Francis lying in state while Donald Trump spent the day lying in the White House.

Democrats in Congress say it’s time for Pete Hegseth to go as defense secretary for two reasons. One, he shared classified information with his wife and brother. And two, he needs them to explain what that classified information means. 

The Supreme Court will hear a case that has the potential to kill free preventive-care services under the ACA and, in turn, make millions of Americans DOA.

The visit to mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador by Senator Chris Van Hollen was called disgusting by the White House. (Spoiler alert: That’s like the pot calling the kettle black.)

While Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen visits illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvador prison, Donald Trump’s DOJ snaps into action—and sues the state of Maine for allowing transgender athletes to play women’s sports. 

The president of El Salvador has refused to return the Salvadoran man from Maryland who had been mistakenly deported, citing Trump’s 50% tariff on returned innocent migrants as the reason.

The Supreme Court has followed a district court’s ruling, instructing the government to return a Salvadoran migrant it wrongly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison. Of course, the Supreme Court added that the district court also needed to respect the foreign policy initiatives of the executive branch. In other words: never mind.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to lift its ban on the Associated Press, allowing it to rejoin the White House press pool. Although with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in charge, it’s more like a cesspool.

Donald Trump lowered the tariff boom on 180 countries and regions, including an island inhabited by penguins. In retaliation, the penguins placed their own tariffs on U.S. imports, including crustaceans and tuxedos.

Donald Trump is set to hit Canada with extreme tariffs that will raise prices on American consumers while at the same time piss off our neighbor to the north. He sees it as a win-win, which it is (if you’re a sado-masochist).