A majority of Americans do not have passports, and those without them are disproportionately working class and non-college educated — the core of Trump's base.
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Jon Favreau lays out the facts: a bipartisan housing bill that would reduce building barriers and limit big investors' purchases of single-family homes was moments from being signed when Trump blew it up via Truth Social, demanding the SAVE Act — which requires passports or birth certificates to register to vote — first. [1] — Jon Favreau "Minutes before a bipartisan housing affordability bill signing, Trump canceled it and demanded Congress pass the SAVE Act first. The SAVE A…" 03:30 The hosts play Trump's Oval Office justification, in which he explains he made billions in housing and knows it's really about interest rates, not supply. Dan Pfeiffer calls the decision simply 'crazy,' painting the picture of a vulnerable Republican congressman who woke up expecting to claim a bipartisan win and instead got a surreal demand for a bill that has failed the Senate five times and would disproportionately harm the working-class voters that now form the GOP's core. The SAVE Act would also effectively end online and automatic voter registration. Pfeiffer notes the deepest irony: the thing Trump wants most is the one thing his own party can't give him, and it's driving him 'even more bananas than usual.' Jon flags reporting that Trump told advisers directly: 'no one gives a shit about housing,' while the SAVE Act slogan gets crowds on their feet at rallies.
After canceling the housing bill signing, Trump attended a Senate lunch where he berated Republicans over Iran and got into a shouting match with Bill Cassidy, calling him a lunatic. Cassidy refused to sit down, called Trump 'brother,' and Trump told him he wasn't his brother. Senator John Kennedy later said the meeting was a success because no one got stabbed.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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