US hurdles toward shutdown fueled by immigration fight
Government funding runs out Friday night.
Government funding runs out Friday night.
The former Montana senator spoke with Semafor for a wide-ranging interview about his own political future, ICE funding, and more.
The crux of Rubio’s message: The capture of Nicolás Maduro “was an operation to aid law enforcement."
After we recorded this episode, we noticed that Axios is reporting that anger is rising at Stephen Miller inside Donald Trump’s inner circle. Some White House officials blame Miller for smearing ICE murder victim Alex Pretti. This comes as reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times suggest that other top advisers want ICE to change course in a way that is running afoul of Miller’s designs. That all this is leaking out shows internal dissatisfaction with Miller is growing. Meanwhile, a new YouGov poll finds 55 percent of Americans and 67 percent of independents have very little confidence in ICE. Both reflect large recent spikes. We think all this reflects a deeper Miller-MAGA miscalculation. So we’re talking about all this with The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, who spent time in Minneapolis and wrote a good piece on the outpouring of popular energy there. We discuss what he saw on the ground among ordinary people, why it badly undermines Miller-MAGA ideology, how we know advisers are turning on Miller, and how MAGA poses a far bigger threat to social cohesion than immigrants do. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
A bill ending qualified immunity for ICE agents is already written — and Democrats now have leverage to make it happen.
Trump’s Board of Peace is an intricate play to maintain hegemony in the face of China’s rise, sparking talk of "a new world order" — but is the rules-based international order really worth saving?