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What comes next after the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Happy Friday! The weekend is upon us, unless you're a member of the U.S. Senate who's set to spend the next couple days working on the 'big, beautiful bill.' Today also marks the one-year anniversary of the now-infamous presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. In today's edition, our legal team breaks down what comes next after the Supreme Court's major ruling in the birthright citizenship case. Plus, Kristen Welker previews her exclusive interview this weekend with Zohran Mamdani. — Adam Wollner — Adam Wollner Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling sparks new round of legal fights By Lawrence Hurley and Gary Grumbach Almost as soon as the Supreme Court released its ruling limiting the ability of judges to block President Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship, challengers brought new legal claims seeking the same result by a different means. While the Supreme Court said judges cannot issue sweeping 'universal injunctions' that can apply nationwide in many cases, it left open the option of plaintiffs seeking broad relief via class action lawsuits. The American Civil Liberties Union filed such a lawsuit in New Hampshire on behalf of immigrants whose children may not obtain U.S. citizenship at birth if Trump's order was to go into effect. In a separate case in Maryland, in which groups had previously obtained a nationwide injunction, lawyers filed an amended complaint seeking similar class-wide relief for anyone affected by Trump's plan within hours of the ruling authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Under Trump's plan, birthright citizenship would be limited to those who have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. That is at odds with the widely accepted understanding of the Constitution's 14th Amendment — that it grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., with a few minor exceptions. Samuel Bray, a critic of nationwide injunctions at Notre Dame Law School whose work was cited in the ruling, said both the states and individual plaintiffs can still get broad injunctions against the birthright citizenship executive order, potentially even on a nationwide basis. 'I don't expect the executive order will ever go into effect,' he added. How Trump is responding: At a news conference, Trump made it clear the administration would proactively use the Supreme Court ruling not just to bolster its birthright citizenship proposal but also to push forward on other policies that have been blocked by judges on a nationwide basis. 'Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis,' the president said. Steve Bannon urges Republicans to take Zohran Mamdani's rise 'seriously' By Kristen Welker Zohran Mamdani pulled off a stunning upset in New York City's mayoral primary this week, sending shock waves through the Democratic Party. A little-known state lawmaker, Mamdani ran a campaign that energized key Democratic constituencies and ultimately forced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to concede. And now, even Republicans are starting to pay attention. Steve Bannon, a close ally to President Donald Trump, told me the GOP should take Mamdani's rise seriously. 'He did something that AOC and Bernie haven't been able to do — he connected populism to affordability,' Bannon told me. 'Republicans better start taking this guy seriously and they better stop wishing that he wins, and they will automatically run against his policies in 2026. This guy is a very skilled politician. He's clearly had a lot of training. He's got radical ideas, but he presents them in a sunny upbeat way and people feel like he's fighting for them, particularly on an issue that Republicans haven't connected on yet: affordability.' Mamdani has the momentum at the moment, but if elected mayor this fall, he would face immediate questions about whether he and his fellow democratic socialists can effectively govern the nation's largest city. He would oversee a $115 billion budget, more than 300,000 city employees and the country's largest police force. Mamdani has pledged to expand affordable housing, make city buses free and lower the cost of living by raising taxes on large corporations and the top 1% of earners. But his record in Albany offers limited evidence of legislative success: The New York Times reported that only three relatively minor bills he sponsored became law. Delivering on his promises would be difficult. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul — who has said she's not ready to back Mamdani yet — already rejected his proposed tax hikes on the wealthy, and making public buses free would require state approval. So, if given the opportunity to govern, how would Mamdani do it, given these challenges? I'll talk to Mamdani about all of this in an exclusive interview on 'Meet the Press' this Sunday. 🎙️ Here's the Scoop This week, NBC News launched ' Here's the Scoop,' a new evening podcast that brings you a fresh take on the day's top stories in 15 minutes or less. In today's episode, host Yasmin Vossoughian discusses the Supreme Court's ruling in the birthright citizenship case with NBC News senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett and senior Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley. ✉️ Mailbag: Is Trump delivering on his deportation promises? Thanks to everyone who emailed us! This week's reader question is about Trump's mass deportation agenda. 'The president says they are deporting rapists, drug dealers and child molesters. I was wondering how many of the arrests are of real criminals and how many are just illegal entry workers?' To answer this, we turned to an exclusive report this week from our colleagues Julia Ainsley and Laura Strickler. They obtained internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement data of every person booked from Oct. 1 through May 31, part of which was during the Biden administration. It shows a total of 185,042 people arrested and booked into ICE facilities during that time; 65,041 of them have been convicted of crimes. The most common categories of crimes they committed were immigration and traffic offenses. Last fall, ICE told Congress that 13,099 people convicted of homicide and 15,811 people convicted of sexual assault were on its non-detained docket, meaning it knew who they were but did not have them in custody. The new data shows that from Oct. 1 to May 31, ICE arrested 752 people convicted of homicide and 1,693 people convicted of sexual assault, meaning that at the most, the Trump administration has detained only 6% of the undocumented immigrants known to ICE to have been convicted of homicide and 11% of those known to ICE to have been convicted of sexual assault.
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How JB Pritzker's decision to run for reelection could impact his 2028 aspirations: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, Lawrence Hurley previews a major Supreme Court decision day. Plus, Natasha Korecki explores the 2028 implications of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's decision to seek a third term. — Adam Wollner How JB Pritzker's decision to run for re-election could impact his 2028 aspirations Analysis by Natasha Korecki From Chicago's South Side, JB Pritzker, who has emerged as a prominent national voice of resistance to President Donald Trump, announced today he was running — for a third term as governor of Illinois. It's no secret Pritzker has White House ambitions, with his frequent cable news interviews, political investments in national battlegrounds and visits to states likely to be early on a presidential primary calendar. Appearing on the ballot in November 2026 doesn't preclude him from running for president. But it does push Pritzker into a potentially precarious position as other Democrats begin dipping their toes into the 2028 waters. As the sure-to-be-packed field ramps up, Pritzker will be stumping in one of the bluest states in the nation. As he does, he will have to answer if he plans to stick around for all four years of his state job. If he's re-elected, he'll have to wait a requisite amount of time before shifting into White House mode. By then, will a newcomer capture the Democratic energy? Will potential opponents get a leg up on out-organizing and defining him? GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis found himself in this predicament when he first sought re-election in Florida in 2022 before announcing a 2024 bid. By the time DeSantis entered the race, Trump had already established a foothold in the contest. Of course, Democrats' dynamic heading into 2028 is markedly different from that of the GOP primary that featured a former president who led one of the biggest movements in modern politics. But already, former Chicago mayor and ex-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel — who hails from Pritzker's state — is openly exploring a presidential bid. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has spent months drawing progressive crowds on the road with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Democratic governors like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer, who are bound by term limits and will be out of office come early 2027, will be free to begin building organizations and raising money for potential White House bids. Pritzker would be far from the first politician who held office while running for president. And as a billionaire who has bankrolled his own campaigns, he is uniquely situated to shift into a national posture. A veteran Illinois political operative and Pritzker ally said running for a national post while holding state office could be an asset. 'I see it completely opposite. You're better off running with the platform as Illinois governor,' this person said. 'This is his third term, and so he can walk and chew gum. He can do events as Illinois governor. And we know that 50% of JB will make a better governor than anybody else out there. I don't see it as remotely problematic or complicated at all.' But as another Democratic strategist put it to us earlier this week: 'The minute JB announces he's running, JB would have taken himself out of the presidential conversation from June 2025 to November 2026. Do you really want to cede the field for a year and five months?' Tomorrow is shaping up to be a big day at the Supreme Court By Lawrence Hurley The Supreme Court is set to conclude its nine-month term tomorrow with a flurry of rulings. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has six cases left to decide of those in which it heard oral arguments in the current term. The one that has attracted the most attention is President Donald Trump's attempt to end automatic birthright citizenship. The case focuses not on the lawfulness of the proposal itself but whether federal judges had the power to block it nationwide while litigation continues. What the court says about so-called nationwide injunctions could have wide-ranging impacts, with judges frequently ruling against Trump on his broad use of executive power. The court also has the option of sidestepping a decision on that issue and instead taking up the merits of the plan. Birthright citizenship is conferred under the Constitution's 14th Amendment. The long-standing interpretation of the provision as understood by generations of Americans, including legal scholars on the left and right, is that anyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen with a few minor exceptions, including people who are the children of diplomats. Along with birthright citizenship, the other five cases the court has to decide concern: Whether conservative religious parents can opt their elementary school-age children out of LGBTQ-themed books in class. Long-running litigation over whether congressional districts in Louisiana are lawful. A law enacted in Texas that imposes age restrictions for using adult websites. A challenge to the Affordable Care Act's preventive care task force. A Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes phone and internet services in underserved areas. More from SCOTUS: The Supreme Court ruled today for South Carolina in its effort to defund Planned Parenthood, concluding that individual Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their right to pick a medical provider. 🎙️ Here's the Scoop This week, NBC News launched ' Here's the Scoop,' a new evening podcast that brings you a fresh take on the day's top stories in 15 minutes or less. In today's episode, host Morgan Chesky discusses the newest recommendations out of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel with NBC News medical contributor Dr. John Torres. Listen to the episode here →
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The Democratic Party's Mamdani moment: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. I n today's edition, Ben Kamisar sifts through the fallout from Zohran Mamdani's surge to the top of the Democratic primary field for New York mayor. Plus, Andrea Mitchell examines the impact of President Donald Trump's questioning of the post-Iran strike intelligence reports. — Adam Wollner What Zohran Mamdani's rise means for the Democratic Party nationally By Ben Kamisar Zohran Mamdani's dramatic, strong showing in New York's Democratic mayoral primary, in which he forced a concession from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amounts to a massive shot in the arm for progressives and other Democrats who have been imploring their party's elder statesmen to step aside for a new generation of leaders. Mamdani ran his campaign as an unapologetic progressive against an established favorite who argued his pragmatism would best meet the moment, a 33-year-old fresh face against a field of experienced candidates, a democratic socialist at a time when many Democrats worry whether that moniker alienates them from swing voters and a critic of Israel's conduct in its war against Hamas, despite criticism from moderate Democrats who accused him of stoking antisemitism. Tuesday night's primary was far from a clear test case for any one of those factors, with Cuomo's 2021 resignation as governor amid allegations of sexual harassment and Covid mismanagement also in play. And New York City voters are hardly representative of the swing-district and swing-state electorates that determine who holds power in Washington — one reason Republicans are already using Mamdani as a rhetorical foil to swing-seat Democrats. But Mamdani's surge — putting him on the precipice of the Democratic nomination, with the results of the ranked choice tabulation scheduled to come next week — is putting the rest of the Democratic Party on notice. Democratic divisions: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a Brooklyn native who endorsed Mamdani, told Ryan Nobles that Tuesday's results are an indication of where the energy is in the Democratic Party — primarily because candidates like Mamdani are focusing on the cost-of-living issues that voters care about. 'He talked to the needs of the working class,' Sanders said. 'He was prepared to take on the billionaire class and their super PACs, mobilize people at the grassroots level who knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors. That's how you win elections.' Democrats' top leaders in Congress — Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, both New Yorkers — offered more muted responses. They released statements congratulating Mamdani, but they didn't explicitly call for the party to fall in line behind him in the general election. And Reps. Laura Gillen and Tom Suozzi, two New York Democrats who are veterans of battleground congressional races, put out statements criticizing Mamdani. Gillen called him 'too extreme,' and Suozzi said his 'concerns remain' about Mamdani. Trump is on a slippery slope as he disputes intelligence on Iran strikes Analysis by Andrea Mitchell 'Obliterated' is the way President Donald Trump has described Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, both within hours of Saturday's complex B-2 strike and again today. At the NATO summit, he and his national security team are furiously disputing a preliminary Pentagon intelligence analysis that the destruction of the nuclear program was less than complete. The conflict betrays a continuing misunderstanding by the White House of the nature of intelligence. The Defense Intelligence Agency is one of 17 agencies intensely studying the results of the extraordinarily precise bombing mission. The pilots did their jobs: They flew for 37 hours and hit their targets, for the first time dropping 14 massive 'bunker buster' bombs in combat. Now analysts, using complex measuring devices of soil disturbances, atmospheric dust, debris from bomb craters and electronic intercepts of Iranian conversations, among other data, are assessing the remaining risk of a reconstituted nuclear threat. It could take months — or forever — to have absolute confidence or unanimity in a conclusion. Their job is to provide a continuous flow of intelligence to the commander in chief and his advisers so they can decide what to do next. The slippery slope here is for the president and his team to jump to conclusions that the strike 'obliterated' anything. Today Trump also said of Iran: 'I don't see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they've had it.' But the independent International Atomic Energy Agency reports Iran most likely moved its highly enriched uranium to other underground locations before the U.S. strike. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told me last Friday the United States could bomb Iran's nuclear program but not its knowledge. And now Iran is still insisting on its right to continue enriching uranium, despite never having explained why it needed to enrich nuclear fuel to near-weapons grade 60% purity — far beyond what is required for peaceful use. Late Wednesday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, in what appeared to rebalance the debate, issued a statement that the CIA can confirm 'credible intelligence' indicating Iran's nuclear program has been 'severely damaged' by the U.S. strikes, destroying several nuclear facilities that would take years to rebuild. He did not say Iran had given up its nuclear aspirations or could not rebuild. If Trump and his team want political spin instead of honest, if preliminary, intelligence, they will end up getting sources like the agent code-named ' Curveball,' who said Iraq had developed biological weapons, leading the CIA director to call it a 'slam dunk.' That is how presidents mistakenly launch forever wars. , by Dan De Luce 🎙️Here's the Scoop This week, NBC News launched ' Here's the Scoop,' a new evening podcast that brings you a fresh take on the day's top stories in 15 minutes or less. In today's episode, host Yasmin Vossoughian talks with national security correspondent Courtney Kube about the intelligence assessments after the United States' strikes on Iran. Listen to the full episode here →
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Trump ramps up pressure amid growing GOP tensions over his bill: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, our Capitol Hill team provides a status check on the 'big, beautiful bill' as Senate Republicans aim to hold a vote this week. We also have the latest from the Middle East amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran. And Steve Kornacki previews tonight's New York City mayoral primary. — Adam Wollner 🗣️ We want to hear from you! Have a question for the NBC News Politics Desk about the latest from the Trump administration, Republicans' 'big, beautiful bill,' or the New York City mayoral primary? Send your questions to politicsnewsletter@ and we may answer them in a future edition of the newsletter. Senate Republicans scramble to resolve tense divisions as Trump ramps up pressure to pass his big bill By Sahil Kapur, Julie Tsirkin, Frank Thorp V and Ryan Nobles The Senate bill's Medicaid cuts are too aggressive for politically vulnerable Republicans. Its clean energy funding cuts are too tame for conservative House Republicans, who are threatening to sink the legislation. And the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions is a nonstarter for key blue-state House Republicans. The GOP-led Congress is barreling toward its own deadline for passage of the Big Beautiful Bill Act, and it's getting messy in the final stretch as President Donald Trump ramps up the pressure on lawmakers to put it on his desk by July 4. 'To my friends in the Senate, lock yourself in a room if you must, don't go home, and GET THE DEAL DONE THIS WEEK,' Trump wrote on Truth Social. 'Work with the House so they can pick it up, and pass it, IMMEDIATELY. NO ONE GOES ON VACATION UNTIL IT'S DONE.' Passing the party-line bill through the House and Senate, where Republicans have three votes to spare in each chamber, will be a daunting task that requires bridging acrimonious divides. The toughest part will be settling on a final product that can unify Senate GOP moderates, like Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, with the far-right House Freedom Caucus. Those two factions have tended to drive the hardest bargain. After a conference lunch meeting, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters that his chamber's goal is to get the bill 'across the finish line by the end of the week,' with the goal of crafting a package that can win 51 votes in the Senate. A midterm warning: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who faces re-election in a battleground state next year, warned his party during a Tuesday meeting that they will suffer losses in the 2026 elections if they push ahead on proposed Medicaid cuts. He compared the situation to the heavy losses Democrats suffered in the 2014 midterms after a rocky Obamacare rollout, according to one source in the room. The meeting came one day after Tillis circulated a document with estimates of how much Medicaid money states would lose if the Senate bill passes, including $38.9 billion in losses for North Carolina, $16 billion for Tennessee and $6.1 billion for Missouri. By Gordon Lubold, Ken Dilanian, Julie Tsirkin, Dan De Luce and Rebecca Shabad An initial assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency concludes that the U.S. airstrikes conducted over the weekend on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites were not as effective as President Donald Trump said and only set the country's nuclear program back by three to six months, according to three people with knowledge of the report. 'We were assuming that the damage was going to be much more significant than this assessment is finding,' said one of the three sources. 'This assessment is already finding that these core pieces are still intact. That's a bad sign for the overall program.' The assessment's conclusions were first reported by CNN. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the reporting on the intelligence assessment was inaccurate. 'This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as 'top secret' but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community,' she said in a statement. 'The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program.' Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran: 'They don't know what the f--- they're doing,' by Megan Lebowitz Democrats struggle to come up with a unified response to Trump's Iran strikes, by Natasha Korecki, Sahil Kapur and Scott Wong , by Rebecca Shabad Breaking down the state of New York's mayoral race on primary day Analysis by Steve Kornacki The final public poll suggests the potential for an upset in Tuesday's New York Democratic mayoral primary — an outcome that would be dramatic but that also might end up resolving nothing. The Emerson College/WPIX/The Hill survey shows former Gov. Andrew Cuomo leading state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani 36% to 34% in the initial first-choice count, with Mamdani eventually overtaking Cuomo after multiple rounds of ranked choice tabulation and winning the final tally 52% to 48%. But a few caveats are in order. First, public polls in the campaign have been sparse. Only Emerson and Marist University have been regularly conducting them. And Marist's final poll found a different result, with Cuomo up by double digits at both the start and the end of ranked choice tabulation. One of those polls may be a lot more accurate than the other, although there is room for both to be right, since Marist's was taken a week earlier and the race could have shifted in that time. The composition of the electorate is uncertain, too. Both Emerson and Marist find that Cuomo has an advantage with voters who said they would cast ballots in person Tuesday, as opposed to taking part in early voting or voting by mail. But will those voters show up in the numbers pollsters expect? It's a cliché to talk about how crucial turnout is as a variable, but there it is. Moreover, ranked choice voting is still new to New York City; this is only the second mayoral contest since it was implemented. It's still uncommon elsewhere. So no polling outlet has a deep and well-established track record when it comes to measuring such races. That said, Emerson's final poll in the 2021 New York mayoral primary showed now-Mayor Eric Adams narrowly edging out Kathryn Garcia in the final ranked choice round, which almost perfectly matched the actual outcome. 🎙️ Here's the Scoop This week, NBC News launched ' Here's the Scoop,' a new evening podcast that brings you a fresh take on the day's top stories in 15 minutes or less. In today's episode, hosted by Morgan Chesky, chief international correspondent Keir Simmons discusses how the Middle East is responding to the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran. And national political correspondent Steve Kornacki explains why the rest of the country should be paying attention to New York City's mayoral race. Listen to the episode here → 🗞️ Today's other top stories 🔵 Youth movement: Democrats elected Rep. Robert Garcia of California, 47, over Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, 70, as the new ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, replacing the late Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia. Read more → 🏝️On an island: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is finding few friends on Capitol Hill in his escalating feud with Trump. Read more → ⏸️ Put it on pause: Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s picks for a vaccine advisory committee and said the next meeting shouldn't be held until members with relevant expertise can be appointed. Read more → 🏦 Fed watch: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell defended higher interest rates amid attacks from the Trump administration and the GOP during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. Read more → ⚖️ Legal showdown: The Trump administration accused a federal judge of 'unprecedented defiance' of a recent Supreme Court decision that paved the way for the government to quickly deport criminal immigrants to 'third countries.' Read more →
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The Trump-Massie feud goes to a new level: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, Scott Bland dives into President Donald Trump's escalating attacks on Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican lawmaker who has proven to be a consistent thorn in his side. Plus, we have the latest from the Middle East as Trump announces a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran. Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here. — Adam Wollner Rep. Thomas Massie has been an intraparty irritant to Donald Trump for years, but never to the point that the president decided to actually try to squash the Kentucky Republican in a primary. Until now. Two of Trump's top political advisers are launching a super PAC dedicated to opposing Massie in his 2026 primary, after Massie's criticism of the Trump-ordered U.S. strikes in Iran this weekend. Trump and Massie have also been trading barbs on social media over the past 48 hours, with Trump posting on Truth Social, 'GET THIS 'BUM' OUT OF OFFICE, ASAP!!!,' and Massie saying on X that the president's actions are not 'American First.' But the formation of the new political group is a step further than Trump has ever gone despite past annoyance with Massie, often a lonely, libertarian-inspired 'no' vote even when most of the House GOP is supporting something — like last month's vote to advance Trump's tax and spending package. It's set to be one of next year's early tests of Trump's grip on the Republican Party, the power of the political war chest he continues to accumulate despite being term-limited, and the ability of remaining holdouts against his top-down version of the GOP to maintain any traction locally. Before this election cycle, Massie had courted Trump's ire on several other high-profile occasions, including an early Covid relief effort in 2020, when Trump called him a 'third rate Grandstander' on social media. Massie was one of a handful of House Republicans who endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president over Trump in the 2024 primary, too. Once again, Trump's anger over that stopped short of an actual endorsement for a primary opponent. Now, though, it seems that the president's annoyance is going to come down on Massie along with his money and maybe even that powerful endorsement, if Team Trump can find a credible challenger this time around. Massie is using Trump's opposition as a fundraising opportunity of his own, but it's not going to measure up to whatever Trump can air-drop into Kentucky against him. As Jonathan Allen points out, Trump has targeted Republican incumbents in primaries before. Most notably, in the 2022 election cycle he sought to unseat GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach him after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ultimately, eight of the 10 House Republicans lost their primaries or declined to seek re-election. And last year, Trump backed John McGuire's successful primary challenge to Virginia's Bob Good, who was the chair of the House Freedom Caucus at the time. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social this evening that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire. 'CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED!,' Trump wrote. The announcement came hours after Iran launched a missile strike against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which stations thousands of U.S. troops, in retaliation for the U.S. bombing its nuclear sites over the weekend. Trump had said that no Americans were harmed and that 'hardly any damage was done.' He added that Iran gave 'early notice' of the attack. Catch up on our latest reporting on the conflict in the Middle East: How Trump decided to strike Iran, by Gordon Lubold, Carol E. Lee and Courtney Kube Trump said Iran's nuclear sites were 'obliterated,' but questions remain about enriched uranium, by Keir Simmons As Iran comes under attack, its Arab neighbors are largely AWOL, by Matt Bradley Presidents ordering military action without Congress' approval has become routine. Here's why, by Gary Grumbach and Carol E. Lee 'Biden didn't start any wars': Democrats sharpen their arguments against Trump's foreign policy, by Peter Nicholas Follow live updates → Today NBC News launched a new evening podcast called 'Here's the Scoop.' In each daily episode, rotating hosts Yasmin Vossoughian, Morgan Chesky and Brian Cheung bring you a fresh take on the day's top stories in 15 minutes or less. Listen to the first episode here → ⚖️ SCOTUS watch: The Supreme Court made it easier for the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to 'third countries' to which they have no previous connection. Read more → ⚖️ SCOTUS watch, cont.: The court also agreed to take up a religious claim by a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut by prison officials in Louisiana. Read more → 📊 Survey says: As Senate Republican leaders hope to begin voting on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' this week, a raft of new polling shows the party is losing the battle of public opinion on the legislation. Read more → 🚫 More on the BBB: Senate Democrats forced the removal of a provision from the bill that sought to restrict the power of courts to block federal government policies with injunctions or restraining orders. Read more → 🪧 In his own words: Mahmoud Khalil, recently released from immigration custody, described the conditions of his detention and decried the 'hypocrisy' of Columbia University, where he was a graduate student. Read more → ☑️ If it's Tuesday: Democrats are set to choose a new ranking member tomorrow for the House Oversight Committee in a four-way internal election that has broken down along generational lines. Read more → 👀 This town ain't big enough: Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff, told NBC News that the prospect of taking on Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in a 2028 presidential run 'is going to be awkward.' Read more → 🗳️ More options, more obstacles: A review of ballot records from over 150 elections shows that rejected ballots are more common in ranked-choice elections. Read more → That's all From the Politics Desk for now. Today's newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Dylan Ebs. If you have feedback — likes or dislikes — email us at politicsnewsletter@ And if you're a fan, please share with everyone and anyone. They can sign up here. This article was originally published on
