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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Hertel
More Money for Trump, Budget Cuts for Working Americans
✹ State Representative Joe Tate
U.S. Senate Candidate
In the News
House Budget Bill increases deficit
Penn Wharton Budget Model
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Michigan Chief Justice mourns the death of her father, a former Chief Justice – WLNS TV
- Protecting Michigan’s election security – Jocelyn Benson
- DeVos family plots new strategy ahead of Michigan 2026 election – Detroit News
- Michigan advocates, politicos slam James’ vote to approve proposed Medicaid cuts • Michigan Advance
- US Supreme Court rejects Michigan GOP bid to overturn new voting rules – Bridge Michigan
- Northern travel to Michigan dips following Trump’s tariffs, threats to annex Canada -The Michigan Independent
- Michigan Senate: Give sexual assault survivors more time to sue |- Bridge Michigan
- Opinion | Trump just handed Democrats their midterm message – Rahm Emanuel/Washington Post
- Two new Democrats could challenge highly vulnerable Michigan Republican – The DownBallot
- Ranked choice voting backers plan campaign despite Trump opposition – Detroit News
- GOP lawmakers vote to hold Benson in contempt of the House over subpoena – Detroit News
- Peters Unveils New Investigative Report Finding Fired Inspectors General Identified More Savings than DOGE – Homeland Security Committee
- Reps. Borton, Martin: Senate DNR budget is dead on arrival in House – MI House Republicans
- MSU eyes $85 million in cuts, fewer staff over federal funding reductions – Bridge Michigan
- House OKs bills barring biological male athletes from women’s sports – Detroit News
- Ingham Co. clerk launches campaign to be Michigan secretary of state – Detroit News
Trump Corruption
- Trump Profits Like No Other President, as Outrage Is Muted – The New York Times
- Pentagon accepts luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One – ABC News
- Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump – Forbes
- Eric Trump Breaks Ground on $1.5B Resort in Country Desperate for Tariff Relief From His Dad – Daily Beast
- 10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement – Mother Jones
- Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster Clubs Are Taking In More Money Than Ever – Wall Street Journal
- The problem(s) with the White House’s defense of Trump’s scandalous crypto dinner – Maddow Blog
- A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner – WIRED
- The Father Pursues Trump’s Diplomatic Deals. The Son Chases Crypto Deals – Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Budget
- The ugly truth about Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” – Judd Legum/Popular Information Substack
- Trump and the power of the big (fake) number – Public Notice Substack
- Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill – The New Republic
- Voters Do Not Support the GOP Reconciliation Bill’s Tax and Spending Proposals – Data for Progress
- It’s not just Medicaid: Why the Republicans’ bill would likely force Medicare cuts, too – Maddow Blog
- Voters in Every Congressional District Oppose Cuts to SNAP – Data for Progress
- Hidden Threat to Democracy Slipped Into Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill – Daily Beast
- Trump Gets Huge Boost as GOP Slips New Court Rules Into Budget – The New Republic
- Dems Flabbergasted by Plan to Rename Baby Savings Accounts in Donald Trump’s Honor: ‘Treating Him Like a King’ – Daily Beast
Trump/Musk Administration’s Assault on Government, the Constitution and Truth
- VIDEO: Trump gives DISASTER Speech leaving ARMY STUNNED – MeidasTouch
- Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like – The Washington Post
- Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa – Reuters
- Dems Preparing to Go to War on Immigrant Detention Centers – The Bulwark
- Harvard Hits Back at Trump With Lawsuit Over International Student Ban – The New Republic
- The White House is Quietly Memory-Holing Transcripts of Donald Trump’s Words – Daily Beast
The Nation
- GOP won’t install Jan. 6 plaque honoring law enforcement, Dems say – The Washington Post
- Trump and Republicans are targeting blue states’ climate policies – The Washington Post
- Supreme Court deadlocks 4-4 on nation’s first religious charter school – NBC News
