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In a governing milestone experts are calling 'unprecedented,' President Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill that passed 358-32 in the House and 85-5 in the Senate — both veto-proof margins — to protest the Senate's failure to pass a separate, unrelated bill. The unsigned bill will become law in ten days anyway, making this the first known case of a president vetoing his own win.
After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the military's flu-shot mandate 'overly broad and not rational' in April, roughly 300 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base contracted the flu. The Pentagon has since quietly restored the mandate, with an official emphasizing — on the record — that the reinstatement has nothing to do with the outbreak.
After spending $14 million to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 'American flag blue,' federal crews deployed hydrogen peroxide, a $1.7 million nanobubble ozone machine, and industrial vacuums — only for the paint to peel off on its own and the president to blame knife-wielding vandals. At least one person was reportedly arrested for touching a piece of paint that was already floating away.
America turns 250 this weekend, and the festivities are going great — if you ignore the 55-page congressional report alleging that donors who tried to fund the official bipartisan birthday commission were quietly handed the wrong bank account number. Two organizations with nearly identical names are now locked in a patriotic turf war over $100 million, a state fair on the National Mall, and the soul of the republic.
In a governing milestone experts are calling 'unprecedented,' President Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill that passed 358-32 in the House and 85-5 in the Senate — both veto-proof margins — to protest the Senate's failure to pass a separate, unrelated bill. The unsigned bill will become law in ten days anyway, making this the first known case of a president vetoing his own win.
After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the military's flu-shot mandate 'overly broad and not rational' in April, roughly 300 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base contracted the flu. The Pentagon has since quietly restored the mandate, with an official emphasizing — on the record — that the reinstatement has nothing to do with the outbreak.
After spending $14 million to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 'American flag blue,' federal crews deployed hydrogen peroxide, a $1.7 million nanobubble ozone machine, and industrial vacuums — only for the paint to peel off on its own and the president to blame knife-wielding vandals. At least one person was reportedly arrested for touching a piece of paint that was already floating away.
The White House unveiled plans to honor 250 American legends with larger-than-life statues on the National Mall — a project so patriotic it apparently did not have time to ask Congress, consult federal law, or verify that all 250 legends were, in fact, American. Litigation has since been filed.