New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander (D) was arrested Tuesday as he guided a defendant out of immigration court. The Department of Homeland Security said he had been arrested “for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer.”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) deleted a series of tweets on Tuesday that promoted unfounded conspiracy theories about the man suspected in the deadly shooting of two Minnesota Democrats and their spouses. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) confronted Lee over the messages in the Capitol on Monday, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) condemned the posts on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday morning and said she too planned to speak to Lee this week.
President Trump has spent the day back at the White House considering his options in the Israel-Iran war. The big decision may be whether to use America’s B-2 bombers to drop the GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs on the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran that is buried in a mountain.
At midday Tuesday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that there were no plans to target Iran’s supreme leader “for now,” amid signals his administration was weighing potential action against Tehran.
But there are divides within the GOP and Trump’s own MAGA movement over the wisdom of becoming even more embroiled in the Israel-Iran war.
Eyes in Congress will be on that conflict, but also on the Senate, where the Finance Committee released the final piece of the GOP’s budget puzzle on Monday evening. It sheds light on its proposed cuts to Medicaid, its tax plans and more.
Worth reading:
- What to know as Israel-Iran conflict hits fifth day
- Battle to define ‘America First’ intensifies as Israel strikes Iran
- Here’s what’s in the Senate GOP’s version of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
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