🇺🇸 Trump Bill Rejected By Senate

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President Trump is turning up the pressure on Canada, warning he will block the opening of the massive U.S.–Canada bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor unless Ottawa comes to the table on trade.

Trump says Canada has taken advantage of America for years, shut U.S. products out of its markets, and built the Gordie Howe International Bridge with virtually no American content. Now, he’s drawing a hard line.

The president is demanding fair trade, real reciprocity, and immediate negotiations — while slamming Canada’s growing ties with China as a serious threat to U.S. interests.

No more one-sided deals. No more giveaways. Trump is once again using American leverage to put workers, businesses, and national interests first.

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🔔 Senate Rejects Trump Bill as Shutdown Nears
🌎 Trump to Host Anti-China Summit 
🏈 Trump Pardons 5 Former NFL Stars
⛏️ Trump's $12B Rare Earth Plan
🕊️ Trump to Announce Gaza Reconstruction Plan

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Congress left town without funding the Department of Homeland Security, setting up another partial government shutdown. Senate Democrats blocked multiple Republican attempts to keep DHS open, demanding major reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement before agreeing to any deal. Both chambers are now on weeklong recess, though Senate Majority Leader John Thune told lawmakers to stay ready for a 24-hour callback if negotiations break through.

In other news, Trump will unveil a multi-billion dollar Gaza reconstruction plan at the first formal meeting of his Board of Peace next week, with delegations from at least 20 countries expected to attend the Washington gathering he'll chair.

Check out all the latest developments and more below!

🔔 Senate Rejects Trump Bill as Shutdown Nears🔔

Lawmakers left Washington without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown after the Senate failed to send a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security to President Trump's desk. Senate Democrats doubled down on their demands for stringent reforms to immigration enforcement and blocked multiple attempts to keep the agency open. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his caucus rejected both the original DHS funding bill and a subsequent two-week funding extension offered by Republicans. Their resistance came after the White House unveiled legislative text of the administration's counteroffer, which several Senate Democrats dismissed as insufficient.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune made the call to send lawmakers home and noted that if negotiations made a breakthrough, they would be on 24-hour notice to return, though talks appear stagnated. Democrats have demanded a stringent list of reforms to ICE, including restrictions on immigration agents wearing masks, requirements for body cameras and identification, and standardized uniforms and equipment. The demands also include bans on racial profiling, requirements for judicial warrants to enter private property, and bars on immigration enforcement at medical facilities, schools, churches, polling places and courts.

Democrats pushed to impose use-of-force standards, allow state and local jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute excessive force, and introduce safeguards into the detention system. Schumer said Democrats will not support a continuing resolution to extend the status quo, declaring that Republicans have not gotten serious about negotiating a solution that reins in ICE. Thune repeatedly tried to peel Democrats away from Schumer during votes but failed to break their unified blockade, echoing a similar dynamic from the 43-day shutdown earlier this year. A senior White House official said Democrats are going to shut the department down and deprive Americans of critical services such as FEMA and TSA in what will be the third partial government shutdown of this Congress.

The shutdown affects only DHS since Congress has already funded roughly 97% of the government through the end of fiscal year 2026. When funding lapses at midnight Friday, around 95% of TSA employees—roughly 61,000 people—will be forced to work without pay, potentially causing delays or cancellations at busy airports if agents call out or take second jobs. TSA paychecks due March 3 could see reduced pay depending on the shutdown's length, with agents not at risk of missing a full paycheck until March 17.

The Coast Guard will suspend all missions except those for national security or the protection of life and property, with 56,000 active duty, reserve and civilian personnel working without pay. The Secret Service's core functions will be largely unaffected, though 94% of its roughly 8,000 employees will work without pay, and the shutdown could hurt progress on improvements following the July assassination attempt against Trump.

ICE operations will go on largely unimpeded despite being the main driver of the standoff, with nearly 20,000 of ICE's roughly 21,000 employees deemed essential and required to work without pay. ICE has already received an injection of some $75 billion over four years from Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, meaning many of its core functions retain funding even during a shutdown. FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund has roughly $7 billion remaining from past appropriations, though this could become problematic if the shutdown exceeds a month or a catastrophic disaster occurs. T

he Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would reduce operations to active threat mitigation and activities essential to protecting life and property, significantly reducing its capacity to proactively monitor for potential threats from foreign adversaries. Both chambers are scheduled to be on recess next week, with several House and Senate members expected to travel to Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference. Senate Democrat Brian Schatz said he thinks Republicans are in a bubble and do not understand the depth of anger, suggesting the break will allow them to go home and get yelled at by constituents who think the agency is out of control.

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📊 Gallup announced it will cease publishing presidential approval and favorability ratings after 88 years of tracking public opinion of presidents. The polling agency said the change reflects an evolution in how it focuses its public research and thought leadership, shifting toward methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people's lives rather than individual political figures. When asked whether the White House or Trump administration provided feedback before the decision, a Gallup spokesperson said the strategic shift is based solely on the agency's research goals and priorities.

⚖️ The White House fired Donald Kinsella as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York the same day a board of judges swore him in for the role. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted bluntly on X that judges don't pick U.S. attorneys and the president does, citing Article II of the Constitution. Kinsella was tapped by the court to fill a vacancy after a judge ruled in January that John Sarcone III was serving in the role illegally past the 120-day limit for unconfirmed U.S. attorneys.

🏪 President Trump commented Friday on the Nancy Guthrie case while departing the White House. Reporters questioned the president why the FBI has not taken over the case as the lead investigator. "Well, they took it over originally. You know, it was a local case originally, and, they didn't want to let go of it, which is fine," Trump said. "It's up to them. It's really up to the communities. But ultimately, when the FBI got involved, I think, you know, progress has been made."

⚖️ U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to the federal supermax prison in Colorado, ruling the move likely violated their Fifth Amendment due process rights. The inmates, whose death sentences Biden commuted in his final month, were not given a meaningful opportunity to challenge the transfer to ADX Florence, known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." Kelly, a Trump appointee, stressed his ruling had no bearing on the nature of the inmates' crimes but focused on whether they received adequate process before the transfer.

💼 Former NBC News chairman Andy Lack revealed that Jeff Bezos confronted him at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, demanding to know when the network would "stand up to Trump" and accusing NBC of "letting him off the hook." Lack now criticizes Bezos for "tearing the paper apart" with layoffs of more than 300 Washington Post employees after what he called "insanely stupid leadership." The revelation comes as Bezos faces backlash for blocking the Post's planned Harris endorsement and attending Trump's inauguration.

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