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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Hertel
The GOP Continued Attack on Medicare
Trump’s Record-Setting Corruption
✹ Congresswoman Haley Stevens
U.S. Senate Candidate
In the News
Attorney General Resouce Guide – Attorney General Dana Nessel
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Haley Stevens’ delicate primary dance – Punchbowl News
- DeVos Family Gives John James a $5 million contribution – Detroit News
- Michigan Congressman John James backs plan to strip healthcare from his constituents – The ‘Gander
- Senate Democrats Introduce the “Building Blocks” Needed to Cut Costs, Create Opportunity – MI Senate Democrats
- Trump tariffs prompt nearly $1B reduction in state revenue projection – Detroit Free Press
- Former legislative aide charged with embezzlement in $25M Clare earmark scandal – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan Court rules multiple state abortion regulations ‘unconstitutional’ – WILX TV
- In west Michigan, library that survived LGBTQ book flap closes as staffers quit – Bridge Michigan
- Thanedar pushes Trump impeachment but backs down from vote – AP News
- Former state House Speaker Joe Tate jumps into US Senate race – Detroit Free Press
- Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Moss announces run for U.S. House – Detroit Free Press
- Washtenaw Prosecutor Eli Savit joins Michigan attorney general race – Detroit Free Press
- Trott mulling a new campaign for Congress but not as a Republican – Detroit News
- VIDEO: Trump Just Sold Out Michigan. I Spoke With Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist About It. – Meidas+
Trump Corruption
- Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like – The Washington Post
- You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year – The New Republic
- America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt – The New Republic
- Opinion | There Are Conflicts of Interest. And Then There’s Trump. – The New York Times
- Trump’s Family Is Rapidly Striking Business Deals in the Mideast – Wall Street Journal
- Trump’s Middle East visit comes as his family business ties there grow – AP News
- ‘An Ethics Nightmare’: Trump’s Memecoin Dinner to Draw Crypto High Rollers – Wall Street Journal
- The Trump Memecoin Dinner Winners Are Getting Rid of Their Coins – WIRED
- White House Freaks Out at Don Jr. Being Compared to Hunter – Daily Beast
- Why Qatar is bribing Trump – Judd Legum/Popular Information Substack
- Why Qatar Is So Excited to Dump That Private Jet on Trump – The New Republic
- Among the problems with Trump’s ‘free’ luxury jet from Qatar: It’s not actually free – Maddow Blog
- Trump’s Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns – The New York Times
- GOP heavyweights join bipartisan bashing of Trump Qatar jet deal – POLITICO
- Elon Musk’s regulatory issues have begun to melt away in Trump’s second term – NBC News
- Senate Democrats want investigation into whether Trump administration helping Musk make Starlink deals – ABC News
- Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink — ProPublica
- Past Presidents Have Tested the Emoluments Clause — This Time is Different – Brennan Center for Justice
- A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million – WIRED
- Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds – The New York Times
- Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous president – AP News
Trump’s Economic Meltdown
- Moody’s lowers U.S. credit rating to ‘Aa1’ – CNBC
- Trump takes credit for Middle East deals that predate his presidency – The Washington Post
- Three-quarters of Americans oppose Medicaid cuts, poll shows – News From The States
- Debbie Dingell: GOP Medicaid cuts would devastate Michigan – Detroit Free Press
- GOP Unveils Sweeping, Brutal Medicaid Cuts – Mother Jones
- Trump’s Prized Tax Bill Doesn’t Do Anything He Promised – The New Republic
- What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero. – The New York Times
Trump/Musk Administration’s Assault on Government, the Constitution and Truth
- Oklahoma will teach high school students debunked 2020 election-fraud theories as fact – Snopes.com
- FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove ingestible fluoride products used to protect kids’ teeth – AP News
- Florida Just Banned Fluoride From Public Water. Here’s What to Know. – The New York Times
The Nation
- Dems Must Not Let Media Make 2026/28 About Biden – Meidas+
- California’s EV Mandate Faces Automakers Pushing Hard to Tank It – Wall Street Journal
- GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs – WIRED
- Democrats just flipped Nebraska’s biggest city – The Downballot
- Exclusive: Trump’s Losing the Latino Voters He Won in ’24 – The Bulwark
- Voters Strongly Oppose Sending Immigrants With Lawful Status — or U.S. Citizens — to Foreign Prisons – Data for Progress
- ‘Get out sooner rather than later’: Yale professors flee U.S. over fascism concerns – MSNBC
- Who are Afrikaners? Why Trump is welcoming white South Africans to US. – USA Today
- Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels – WIRED
- On major matters, Trump often seems unaware and uninvolved – The Washington Post
