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President Donald Trump’s 2027 federal budget proposal includes a historic military budget increase alongside significant cuts to other federal programs. The Democratic National Committee criticized the defense spending plan as outsized. “Trump wants $1,500,000,000,000.00 for his military budget,” the DNC’s official account posted on X April 3. “The largest spending increase since World War II.” Trump requested military funding of $1.5 trillion for fiscal year 2027 — about $500 billion more than the U.S. allocated in fiscal year 2026. If the plan is approved, total national defense funding would increase by about 44%. Beyond Trump’s preliminary budget request, he could…
A federal judge held Friday that the Justice Department (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) likely violated the First Amendment when they coerced Apple and Facebook to take down and ban platforms used to share information on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. In a lawsuit filed against former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in February, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) accused both officials of “repeatedly threaten[ing] to prosecute individuals and entities for disseminating information…about ICE operations” in violation of the right to freedom of expression. Although both women…
Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don’t. Here’s why that’s a problem. Source link
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North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un attended the test firing of missiles with multiple reentry vehicles. “The purpose of the test-fire is to verify the characteristics and power of cluster bomb warhead and fragmentation mine warhead applied to the tactical ballistic missile,” North Korean state media reported on Sunday. “Five tactical ballistic missiles, launched towards the target area around an island about 136 km away, struck the area of 12.5~13 hectares with the very high density, fully displaying their combat might.” Kim’s teenage daughter, Kim Ju Ae, attended the launch. Kim Ju Ae has made several recent public appearances…
A sure sign of spring is the dropping of new GOP bills regulating what is taught in schools. This year’s legal seedlings are trending toward more sweeping restrictions. Missouri’s “Sunlight in Learning Act” threatens to cut half of any district’s budget found to be teaching prohibited concepts. It turns out the lights on many topics […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Timothy F.…
James Dolan, owner of Madison Square Garden, opposes moving his arena, despite a plan for a grand new station. Source link
Swalwell That Ends Well? Democrats Try To Forget Source link
By ignoring all the bright thinkers and conventional analyses the President’s genius strategy has placed us in the driver’s seat. We are now the world’s top source of oil and gas and control major distribution flows of petro supplies from around the world.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
Over at Executive Functions, Jack Goldsmith offers a sharp critique of the way that the New York Times presented and spun the content of the leaked Supreme Court memos concerning whether to stay the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. From the beginning of his post: The CPP order was unusual, but not because the Court temporarily decided a very important issue via an interim order with no explanation. That had happened quite a lot, even outside the death penalty and election contexts. See for example these two interim orders from 2014 on abortion and same-sex marriage. The CPP order was novel at the time,…