I've seen Marc Caputo's internally inconsistent story — though he leads with the "It's dead for now" quote, he later says nothing's final until announced and quotes someone as saying "nothing is final until it's final" — so I'll read it more as, "Some WH folks realize this is a no-go in Congress."

Trump may feel down in the dumps, but he's picking himself up. At least he might get so slap gold leaf all over the equestrian statues next to his planned giant-sized arch.

Absolutely epic losing streak Trump has going on his narcissistic corruption. Ballroom, Slush fund, Kennedy Center, Birthday Party Concert — all crash & burn.

Satisfied that massive credit card debt and delinquencies won’t be a problem for giant Wall Street bankers, Trump is off to meet with the Speaker about his insurrectionist slush fund.

There appears to be some serious confusion about the meaning of the word "deal" here

Oh my God, what a window into the Trump economic brain trust. Hassett gets asked about people running up credit card debt and becoming delinquent just to afford basic necessities, and he genuinely thinks the concern is that Wall Street credit card executives might suffer.

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

Stephen Miller got pushed into a lot of lockers as a kid and thinks now if he calls other people the names that people used to call him, the demons will go away. Go to therapy dude.

This is not how airports work. There are a finite number of slots and gates. You cannot take every international flight from seven of the biggest airports in the country and redistribute them to red states. That's not how any of this works.

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

Utility rates are now up **18%** since Trump came into office, and Trump and Republicans are still doing everything they can to raise them more. All of this so their oil & gas donors — who are pigs in slop with Trump’s Iran war — can get even richer. #TrumpCrimeFamily

The price of food and everything else is skyrocketing, so Trump is helping by putting his face on a new bill that will hopefully cover a bag of groceries at the end of his term.

The White House was a dignified keeper of history, the walls could talk, but Trump’s only concept of history is that you used to be able to call people offensive names and only allow white people in your buildings and it was great.

Ain't nothing worse than rejection. Morris Day just slapped Trump's face.

Maybe the most narcissistic human being the world has ever known. Good thing everything in the country is perfect, otherwise it might be a distraction from the job that he’s corruptly leveraging for billions of dollars.

Rising prices are making people rethink retirement. Trump’s working on it by covering up what his billionaire donor and DOGE did to Social Security.

It’s the New Golden Age, let the tax dollars flow like water!

Happy to share our first campaign ad!! Www.Harrydunnformd.com

Hey, I got a shoutout on Kimmel tonight! He even pronounced my name correctly 😆

Pretty wild that "most corrupt politician" is actually debatable here.

Most of us may have been pinching pennies this weekend, but when you have access to everybody’s tax dollars you can always afford to splurge.

Ballrooms and slush funds have put “government corruption” as people’s 2nd highest concern, a very close second to cost of living now. And the two of them together might be the most toxic political combination possible.

Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.

Howard Lutnick made this donation on April 1—four weeks after his Epstein testimony was on the books, but just a day after the quarterly filing deadline, ensuring the donation wouldn’t be disclosed before his testimony. (House GOP also said nothing about it fwiw) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

A consequence? In my United States? It’s more possible than you think!

lol

Fox News poll finds 51% of Americans say their finances are worse off than two years ago. Put Trump down as a “strongly disagree.”

BREAKING: On top of gas prices creeping toward $5/ gallon, new data from Trump’s own Energy Department shows utility rates have spiked *18%* since he took office.

It's all falling apart

I’m reminded of when Mike Johnson kept the House out of session for months to avoid having to vote on the Epstein files. Is the Senate just going to not do reconciliation ever again? Is Trump going to just pocket the full $1.8 billion over the next week so there’s nothing left to vote on?

Memorial Day Weekend with record beef prices and skyrocketing gas prices, and the GOP Congress is just going home because the Trump corruption is overwhelming even for them.

Hope Trump has had fun beating up Republicans in their primaries, cuz one by one states are wrapping up, and the general election is the buzzsaw now. Pennsylvania primary was yesterday, and whaddaya know…

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

BREAKING: We just won a preliminary injunction in our case with @freedom.press requiring the Trump administration to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve records for posterity. This is a huge win against their absurd stance that the law is unconstitutional.

Lindsay is brilliant and this will be a must-read for anybody who wants to engage on, and do something about, the reasons most Americans always feels like they can’t quite catch up.

18 years ago I was in Speaker Pelosi’s office helping usher the digital politics age into Congress. One new (!!) thing I did was pull video of the best House Dem floor speeches for YouTube. Barney Frank on GOP’s attempt to kill ENDA still sticks with me. RIP. youtu.be/eKYMOtODQT4?...

Morning tipsheet reviews for the Trump Affordability Tour coming in strong. From Playbook to Punchbowl, people are raving.

Blanche: "Whether an Oath Keeper applies for compensation -- anybody in this country can apply"

Blanche could’ve just said, without even fully accepting the premise here, that if you’re a known child abuser you can’t have this money. The fact that he won’t say that is horrifying

This thing is just going to stink worse and worse every day. Put ‘em on record.

“now Trump is the most explicitly corrupt leader in today’s world. After all, Vladimir Putin has obviously stolen billions, but never this brazenly. Even Third World dictators normally try to mask their corruption.”- @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump regime’s tax payer funded $1.776 billion slush fund.

This is Trump confirming that the committee chosen by Trump and Blanche will be giving money to him and his family:

The important point of “there’s no limitation on claims” obviously isn’t that Trump will award outside his circle of cronies and criminals, it’s that there’s no limitation against him just giving most of it to himself.

The sheer basic cowardice of the most ordinary GOP Members of Congress remains astounding, even if it’s no longer surprising.

"83 percent of respondents were opposed to Trump’s offer of clemency for violent criminal offenders." Giving Americans tax dollars to J6 offenders may not be the political win they think it is.

Or $10,000 a pop with $1.7B left over for Trump himself — oh how he did suffer.

A $1B ballroom to entertain his donors, a $2B taxpayer slush fund for him and his criminal friends, and he “doesn’t even think about people’s personal finances.” Trump is a stain of corruption that will stand as a warning for centuries to come if our democracy survives him.