There is a reason that the United States has not gone to war with Iran before. The overwhelming consensus of military and intelligence officials and experts has been that doing so would be a disaster. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Get out the popcorn for this Roundtable! With @sudeepreddy.bsky.social‬, Senior Managing Editor ‪@politico.com, ‬@sarahdwire.bsky.social‬, Senior National Political Correspondent at @usatoday.com‬ and ‪@kirk-bado.bsky.social‬, Editor ‪@nationaljournal.com‬ Hotline.‬‬‬ bit.ly/Click-2-Listen

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@sudeepreddy.bsky.social hired by @msnbc.com to be DC bureau chief: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/m...

@msnbc.com is honored to welcome Sudeep Reddy (@sudeepreddy.bsky.social) as the network’s Washington Bureau Chief. In his role, Sudeep will be charged with leading MSNBC’s D.C.-based newsgathering operation, including building a team of reporters to cover every corner of the nation’s capital.

“The Taco (for Trump Always Chickens Out) trade notched up its latest win yesterday” www.ft.com/content/0006...

Hundreds of millions of $$$ from taxpayers “You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One. It’s a massive undertaking — and an unfunded one at that.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“Even Teflon Don can’t outrun economic reality.” >>> The manufacturing sector, watching order books dry up, has been shrinking its workforce. Ports are warning of a plunge in shipments. Economists have been calculating significant odds of a recession. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Even after Trump caved on his China tariffs, American consumers still face an overall average effective tariff rate of 17.8%, the highest since 1934. And even after consumption shifts, the average tariff rate will be 16.4%, the highest since 1937. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

Unless the president soon finds a face-saving retreat in his trade war, conditions are in place for a recession that Americans will feel viscerally. My latest in @politico.com’s The Nightly www.politico.com/newsletters/...