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Morning Memo - 2025
A MAGA Schism on Iran? Not So Fast.
INSIDE: The Senate Parliamentarian … Mahmoud Khalil released … the destruction of USAID
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06.23.25 | 9:56 am
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 07: United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 07: United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Supreme Court Abets Trump’s Defiance of Court Orders 
INSIDE: What's next for DOGE … the Dobbs anniversary … the misadventures of Kash Patel
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06.24.25 | 9:39 am
Polling Shows Americans Are Souring on Trump’s Big Initiatives
INSIDE: Secret police alert ... A mayoral upset in NYC ... Remembering Melissa Hortman
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06.25.25 | 10:06 am
The Trump Administration’s Assault on Federal Courts Gets More Shockingly Authoritarian
INSIDE: Mike Johnson, phone home ... RFK Jr's vaccine crisis ... Trump's Bible profits
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06.26.25 | 9:00 am
Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets?
INSIDE: Republican lawmakers vs. the Senate Parliamentarian ... Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine ... the GOP’s New Red Scare
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06.27.25 | 9:27 am
Trump Can’t Decide If Migrant Farm Worker Industry Is a Worthy Sacrifice for His Mass Deportation Agenda
INSIDE: Lisa Murkowski's whale boat pork ... Bondi targets Jan. 6 prosecutors ... Orbán's oops
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06.30.25 | 10:36 am
Trump Threatens Elon With Monster of His Own Making
INSIDE: DOJ's new denaturalization crusade ... Musk fights Trump bill ... Noem pads her salary
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07.01.25 | 10:28 am
Mike Johnson Reminds House GOP That Legislating Isn’t That Important Right Now
INSIDE: Birtherism is back ... Trump power grab defeated (for now) ... DOGE advisor launches anti-Musk PAC
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07.02.25 | 10:25 am
Trump’s Assault on Separation of Powers Made Explicit in His Megabill Vote Whipping
INSIDE: GOP 'holdouts' do what they do ... Trump nominee's trutherism ... DOJ threat to election officials
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07.03.25 | 10:16 am
On Not Losing Perspective In The Trump II Madness
INSIDE: A few words about where Morning Memo goes next
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07.07.25 | 9:30 am

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