Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
New: Dem Rep. LaMonica McIver Criminally Charged for Assaulting ICE Agents, and She's Already Crying
I hope she has a good lawyer because she's going to need it, and all the crying in the world from her and her counterparts won't change that.
Reese Hogan is her name, and she gave the proverbial finger to the progressive mob when—after the official ceremony was finished—she took her rightful spot atop the winner’s podium, signaling that she was the real champion.
Top Urologist Tells Megyn Kelly Biden’s Cancer Announcement Has ‘Tell’ This Isn't New
"I don't know how they will be able to give all of this information, from diagnosis to treatment, to all of that within one week. This story doesn't make any sense."
Trending Across Townhall Media
Colorado Man Blames Gun Maker for Shooting Teen in Face
[E]ven if the jurors believe that Metz's pistol suffered a mechanical failure at that precise moment they're still going to have to decide whether prosecutors have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Metz intended to terrify the teens instead of getting his gun to protect himself against an unknown threat.
Bernie Sanders Agrees That Democrats Are a Threat to Democracy
Democrats truly are a threat to democracy because they don't trust voters. Even their own.
Is AOC's Engagement Off, or Is She Just Skirting Ethics Rules?
Kendra Arnold of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust said that AOC and Roberts “are benefiting from a ‘loophole’ in congressional financial disclosure rules that provide different treatment for members’ long-term partners versus spouses.”
Sorry, the timelines don’t lie. Someone had to have known.
Flashback: Hakeem Jeffries Threatened Consequences If ICE-Clashing Dems Were Charged - Now What?
Democrats are acting like she’s being charged for protesting - she’s not. The video shows the real reason she’s being charged.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
The House GOP Conference is holding a meeting first thing, during which President Donald Trump will address the group and, no doubt, exhort them to coalesce around the Big Beautiful Bill ahead of Thursday's anticipated vote.
There are also numerous meetings/hearings set for Tuesday, including:
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Homeland Security [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to testify]
- House Appropriations, Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee — Budget Hearing – Department of the Interior [DOI Secretary Doug Burgum to testify]
- House Transportation and Infrastructure, Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee — "Federal Courthouse Design and Construction: Examining the Costs to the Taxpayer"
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee — “Mandates, Meddling, and Mismanagement: The IRA’s Threat to Energy and Medicine”
- House Energy and Commerce, Environment Subcommittee — "The Fiscal Year 2026 Environmental Protection Agency Budget" [EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to testify]
- Senate Foreign Relations — Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of State [Secretary of State Marco Rubio to testify]
- Senate Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee — Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify]
- Senate Judiciary — Hearings to examine defending against drones, focusing on setting safeguards for counter unmanned aircraft systems
- House Appropriations, Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee — Oversight Hearing – The Transportation Security Administration
- House Judiciary, Oversight Subcommittee — “Examining Threats to ICE Operations”
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee — “Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces”
- Senate Appropriations, State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee — Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of State [Secretary of State Marco Rubio to testify]
White House What's Up
As noted above, President Trump is at the Capitol this morning, delivering remarks to the House GOP Conference Meeting, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern. Here's how Punchbowl characterizes the confab:
President Donald Trump will leave the gold-gilded White House this morning to join a rambunctious and divided House Republican Conference in the dank Capitol basement.
Trump’s goal is to try to get the House Republican Conference to coalesce around the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Speaker Mike Johnson can’t close this vote out on his own. As we saw with the speaker vote, the government-funding bill and the budget resolution earlier this year, Trump remains the only person in town who can move House Republicans en masse.
Later in the morning/early afternoon, the president will participate in a "Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day Event" on the White House South Lawn.
And we have an update: President Trump is now set to make an announcement with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at 3:00 p.m. Eastern in the Oval Office.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will host a press briefing at 1:00 p.m. related to the Sons and Daughters event.
Full Court Press...
The Supreme Court made another splash on Monday, issuing an order (a stay of a lower court injunction) that effectively allowed the Trump administration to resume its revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Venezuelans.
READ MORE: Breaking: SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Revoke Protected Status for Hundreds of Thousands of Venezuelans
(Here's where I note that, again, this was a procedural ruling, not a ruling on the merits, but the practical effect of the Supreme Court's order is that the administration may proceed with its plans while the case works its way through the courts on the merits.)
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Speaking of the Supreme Court, we'll likely see additional opinions handed down this week on cases argued before it this term.
As of right now, the House is expected to vote on the Big Beautiful Bill on Thursday.
MORNING MUSING
Jim Comey wants you to know he's just a shy, retiring, unassuming grandfatherly figure who likes long walks on the beach with his wife and admiring seashell art. He's not savvy or wise to the ways of the world. It never even occurred to him that the message "86 47" he shared on his Instagram page (which he, with his 138,000 followers, barely even knows how to post to, of course) might be construed as some sort of threat or veiled call to violence against the sitting president. How on earth was he supposed to know that?!
Look, just because he graduated with honors from the College of William and Mary and received his law degree from the University of Chicago, and just because he helped prosecute the Gambino Crime Family while at the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, and just because he later served as the US Attorney for that office, and just because he then served as the Deputy Attorney General, and just because he was the director of the FBI, that doesn't mean he understands the nuances of political messaging or codes for taking someone out. Those sorts of things confuse and frighten him. He's just a simple, unfrozen caveman FBI Director, friends. He doesn't know!
— Susie Moore ⚾️🌻🐶 (@SmoosieQ) May 20, 2025
LIGHTER FARE
Moo.
Just a little baby..🐄😍 pic.twitter.com/z7C0p7JkgG
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 20, 2025
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