Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics: US
Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that had a veto-proof majority, holding it hostage to the SAVE Act, leaving a staged signing ceremony abandoned on Capitol Hill.
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The main content opens mid-drama, with a Trump clip from outside the meeting room declaring it a 'really great meeting' — which Katty Kay immediately unpacks as evidence of the opposite. She describes a perfectly staged signing ceremony: the podium set, the ceremonial pens lined up, Trump on his way to the Capitol. Then, on a whim, he pulls out — refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill until Congress passes the SAVE Act, his controversial voting-eligibility legislation. The bill already had a veto-proof majority, making the gesture purely performative. [1] — Katty Kay "Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill at the last minute — after a full signing ceremony was staged at the Capitol — holding it h…" 03:03 Anthony Scaramucci, barely concealing his delight, calls this his 'I told you so' moment — Trump does whatever he wants, and he always has. The real theatre, Scaramucci says, was watching Mike Johnson face reporters with a microphone and deny being blindsided. Kay brings in the parallel drama: a full-blown shouting match between Trump and Senator Bill Cassidy, in which Cassidy refused to sit down, matched Trump's volume, and then immediately briefed reporters on every detail — including confronting Trump with the fact that the Iran war he promised would last four weeks had lasted four months. The episode is barely five minutes old and a stink bomb, as Scaramucci puts it, has already gone off in the US Congress.
Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill at the last minute — after a full signing ceremony was staged at the Capitol — holding it hostage to his SAVE Act. The bill had a veto-proof majority. This wasn't a strategic move; it was a hissy fit that left Mike Johnson holding a microphone and answering questions about being blindsided.
In a shouting match with Trump, Senator Bill Cassidy confronted the president over his claim that the Iran war would last only 4 weeks — it lasted 4 months.
Senator Bill Cassidy refused to be bullied by Trump, shouting back and then immediately telling reporters every detail. He confronted Trump directly: 'You said this war would last 4 weeks. It lasted 4 months.' When a sitting senator calls a press conference to narrate his president's meltdown, the party's discipline has collapsed.
Trump has cost Republicans the Senate seats of Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn, is blocking a veto-proof housing bill, and is refusing to renew FISA. Scaramucci's read: this isn't incompetence. Trump is deliberately burning down his own party because he only answers to himself.
Senate Majority Leader Jon Thune walked in the opposite direction of Trump after the failed Capitol signing event, a striking visual signal of Republican dissatisfaction.
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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