What to Know
- The appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th century wartime law.
- of tax breaks and spending cuts for the president's agenda through the Budget Committee, as a handful of conservatives joined all Democrats in a stunning vote against it.
- Trump ended his Middle East trip after inking a massive AI data center project with the United Arab Emirates.
- The Secret Service was set to interview former FBI Director James Comey tonight over a now-deleted social media post that several U.S. officials interpreted as calling for Trump's assassination.
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