Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
Watch: Sen. Kennedy's Brutal Takedown of Dem Witness During Hearing on Nationwide Injunctions
That was a savage takedown, even by Kennedy standards.
Peter Doocy Raises Excellent Question About Biden Autopen Pardons and the Signature That Looks Real
They should put everyone under oath in public hearings because it's the public's trust that was violated here by what happened, and as Leavitt said, we are the people who deserve answers.
Approximately nine people have been arrested trying to get onto the property since the Secret Service established a security zone around Mar-a-Lago following J13.
Trending Across Townhall Media
New 'Brady Permit Chart' Tells Interesting Story About Anti-Gun States
For all the fearmongering over our standards, they can't even meet the basic level for NICS exemptions, even if they don't want to allow them. Especially if they're issuing permits to people who are prohibited by federal law.
It's a bad sign for MSNBC and also probably for progressives who watch it. There's just not as much resistance energy happening as they were hoping.
Not Your Average Nightclub Raid: Inside DHS’s Shocking Discovery Near Charleston, S.C.
As it turns out, the nightclub was run by a cartel member and was both a place to hang out and have fun and a central location for cash, drugs, weapons, and human trafficking. And agents just happened to find plenty of cash, drugs, weapons, and potential victims of human trafficking on the premises.
ICE Raid in Minneapolis Devolved Into a Total Brawl Between Federal Agents and Angry Locals
It’s no longer words or empty threats when it comes from the mouth of the liberal. They’ll act on it.
Cruz engaged in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent, and the inevitable KO was brutal.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
Things are back in full swing on the Hill, with multiple meetings and hearings set for Wednesday, including:
- House Intelligence (Permanent Select), Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture — National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency FY 2026 Budget Hearing (CLOSED)
- House Foreign Affairs, Europe Subcommittee —Assessing the Challenges Facing NATO
- House Small Business — "Budgeting for Growth: Testimony from SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler"
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Government Operations Subcommittee — “Safeguarding Procurement: Examining Fraud Risk Management in the Department of Defense”
- House Judiciary, Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee — “The Elite Universities Cartel: A History of Anticompetitive Collusion Inflating the Cost of Higher Education”
- Senate Appropriations, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee — Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Commerce [Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify]
- House Education and Workforce — "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Education" [Education Secretary Linda McMahon to testify]
- House Natural Resources, Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee — Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness”
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee — “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild”
- House Appropriations, Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee — Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget [OMB Director Russ Vought to testify]
White House What's Up
President Donald Trump will receive his intelligence briefing Wednesday afternoon. He's then set to sign proclamations. In the evening, he'll participate in a "Summer Soirée" on the South Lawn.
Vice President JD Vance spoke at the American Compass Gala on Tuesday.
"I just want normal people who work hard and play by the rules to have a good life," says @VP.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2025
"That's fundamentally why Donald Trump is the President ... He was the first mainstream American politician to come along and say, 'This isn't working.'" pic.twitter.com/vpjmlgXawO
Keeping Up With the Cabinet
As noted above, several Cabinet members are testifying on the Hill on Wednesday, including SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and OMB Director Russ Vought.
Full Court Press...
The court rulings keep coming. There were a handful of interesting decisions on Tuesday, including the dismissal of the suit brought by the state of California against the Trump administration over tariffs (by a Biden-appointed judge, no less), as well as the dismissal of a suit in D.C. brought by the DNC against Trump over the assertion of executive control over independent agencies — also by a Biden-appointed judge, and one who's previously made some controversial rulings against the administration.
⚖️ In DNC v. Trump (challenging assertion of executive control over independent agencies), Judge Amir Ali (D.C.) grants administration's motion to dismiss; denies plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction as moot.https://t.co/MgfRZNGFPZ
— Susie Moore ⚾️🌻🐶 (@SmoosieQ) June 4, 2025
COMING ATTRACTIONS
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down decisions on Thursday, and, given that it is June, we can expect there will be several.
MORNING MUSING
Every so often, I have a mid-day musing come to me (in addition to my morning musing). When I do, I'll sometimes share it on X while it's top of mind. I did so yesterday amidst the growing consternation over the "Big, Beautiful Bill." I'll state up front: I'm in the "Give It a Chance" camp. I realize not everyone is. Anyway, these are my thoughts on it:
People have gotten tired - beyond tired - of being told to "trust the process." That's understandable. Particularly when "the process" is so murky that sussing out whether it will lead to success is nigh on impossible. Ideally, that needs to change. "The process" shouldn't be labyrinthine. It should be straightforward, efficient, auditable, accountable.
The question(s) is/are: How do we get from how things ARE to how they SHOULD be? How do we steer clear of allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good while ensuring we're not just being strung along for the umpteenth time? How do we embrace the art of the possible and avoid just being suckers?
I'm not sure. What I do know is that I'm a damn sight more pleased with where things stand now than where they stood a year ago. I DID vote for this - maybe not all of it, but certainly most of it. And I can be patient to a point to allow it to reach its full potential.
Maybe I'm naive. Maybe I'm dumb to hold onto my optimism.
What's the alternative? Burn it all down? Throw it all away because it's not everything you were wanting it to be RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW? Well, you do you. You were always going to anyway.
LIGHTER FARE
This just makes me smile.
Emu has a blast playing with two dogs on farm pic.twitter.com/UQZ4dTO5FP
— Stefano S. Magi (@myworld2121) June 3, 2025
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