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Today in Politics, Bulletin 320. 3/3/26
… Kristi Noem was absolutely destroyed in a senate hearing today, as one senator after another unloaded on the immoral, corrupt, and incompetent accessory to murders, kidnappings, unlawful detentions and depravations of civil rights.
… This is a wild Bulletin with tons of big news, so buckle up. I don’t normally do this, but I have to start out this one with a full airing of Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R-NC) epic rant, which has been playing in my office on a loop for the last 5 hours straight:
“Why am I disappointed in Secretary Noem? We’re running numbers that Stephen Miller wants out of the WH. We just want numbers! We want 1,000 a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day. Because numbers matter, right? No they don’t matter. Quality matters, not quantity. What we’ve seen is a disaster under your leadership, Ms. Noem.
What we’ve seen are innocent people getting detained who turn out to be American citizens. The culture that’s been created here with Stephen Miller aiding and abetting. I don’t know if we will have time for you to respond because I’m giving you a performance evaluation here, I’m not looking for a response.
Time after time after time I’ve been disappointed, Ms. Noem. I want to talk about FEMA. You have a policy that anything over $100,000 has to be personally approved by you. NC had a $60 billion disaster. Your biggest disaster in SD when you were governor was only $500 million. Thousands of people are hurting in NC and you are just now catching up.”
Then it got even better.
“I read your book last week. Some of it distresses me. I’ll give you a good example of one that does - the passage where you talk about killing a dog that was 14 months old. I train dogs. And you are a farmer. You should know better, you should know if you go to a hunting lodge and you’re putting dogs out and you’re putting pheasants out, you don’t take a puppy out there.
You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to write in your book that it is a leadership lesson about tough choices! During that same lunch hour you killed a goat. And you killed the goat because you said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer - you should know that if you don’t castrate a goat they behave badly you should have know that!”
This is also true of some men.
… “My point is that those are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment, not unlike what happened in Minneapolis. We are an exceptional nation so we expect exceptional leadership. And you have demonstrated anything but that in the time I’ve seen you.
Mr. Chairman, I want to submit this letter from the Office of IG that cites 10 different instances under Noem’s leadership where they’ve been misled and not allowed to pursue investigations that they think are critically important. Does anybody have any idea how bad it has to be for the OIG in this agency to do this publicly!? That is stonewalling. That is a failure of leadership. And that is why I’m calling for your resignation.
I am submitting a list of questions for you to answer. As of today, I’m informing leadership that I’m putting any nominations on hold until I get a response. If I don’t get a response in 2 weeks, I’m going to deny quorum and markup in as many committees as I can until I get a response.”
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… Sen. Whitehouse: “Can you explain this photo? Noem: I'm looking at a picture of an interior, it looks like a bedroom. Whitehouse: Of an airplane. You're not familiar with that? Noem: These photos are not accurate if you're referring to the airplanes DHS is purchasing. We're using them for long range command and control. Whitehouse: You did not use a luxury jet with a bedroom in it? Noem: I've been on it once. It's being used by other admin officials. Whitehouse: What kind of deportee justifies being flown out of the country in a luxury jet with a bedroom?”
… Sen. Welch: “Do you want apologize to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, that you characterized them as engaged in domestic terrorism? Noem: I certainly offer my condolences to these families for their loss. Welch: Do you want to apologize for that characterization that they were domestic terrorists? Noem: I will continue to work hard.”
… Sen. Schiff: “The $220 million DHS ad campaign, many of which features you prominently. An ad campaign that is more expensive than the budget for any Hollywood blockbuster film. You claim Trump approved this. Did he approve of this to you personally? Noem: We had conversations.”
… Noem: “It was a competitive process. Schiff: This contract went to a company that did not exist two weeks before they got the contract. Are you saying that it’s a coincidence that $143 million went to a subcontractor that you worked with extensively as governor in SD during your campaign? Noem: I had nothing to do with it.”
… Sen. Kennedy: “How do you square the concern for waste when you have spent $220 million dollars on commercials that feature you prominently? Noem: It would be helpful to know how effective it has been. Kennedy: They were effective for your name recognition, but it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot. I don’t think Russ Vought would’ve agreed to that. It’s something we have to defend. It troubles me. A quarter of a billion in taxpayer money when we’re scratching for every penny.”
… Homeland Security Committee Dems: “Kristi Noem gave hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to the husband of her own chief spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin as well as other top Trump campaign vendors. If she thinks Democrats will forget about this, she’s badly mistaken.”
… Kennedy: “What got my attention was you blamed your 'domestic terrorist' statements on Stephen Miller. Noem: No I did not. Where you saw that was in a news article of anonymous sources, and they say a lot of things. But I never said that. Kennedy: Well here's what you said on the record. 'Everything I've done I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen.’ Did I read your words accurately?
Noem: I enjoy working with the president and Stephen Miller.”
… Sen. Welch: “Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? Noem: Yes. Welch: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143 million. Any dispute about that? Noem: No.”
… Welch: “Will you ask Corey Lewandowski if he got any compensation, directly or indirectly, from these contracts? Noem: Are you asking me to ask him? Welch: Yes I am. Go ask your ‘special’ government adviser.”
… Sen. Coons: “Does DHS operate with arrest quotas? Noem: No, we do not. We do targeted enforcement. Coons: I would prefer if you did, but just last year Stephen Miller went on Fox and said, 'We're setting a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day.’ Noem: There is no quotas.”
… Sen. Blumenthal: “Is the agent who shot Ms. Martinez still on the job? Noem: Our law enforcement officers conduct operations every day. Blumenthal: Is he still on the job carrying a gun? Noem: I don't know the details. Blumenthal: Would you agree he shouldn't be? Noem: I'll get back to you. Blumenthal: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying that agent is still on the job carrying a gun.”
… Sen. Padilla: “If Trump or Stephen Miller directed you to send ICE agents to polling places, would you say 'no'? Noem: There is no plan to send ICE officers to polling locations. Are you planning on sending illegal aliens to vote? Padilla: No. That's already illegal.”
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… CBS: “The first American service members to die in the US-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait. At least 6 Americans were killed in a strike on a tactical operations center at the Shuaiba port in Kuwait, one of several US-allied countries in the Persian Gulf region that have faced intense Iranian missile and drone attacks.”
… “But 3 US military officials questioned the assertion that the building was adequately fortified. They said the operations center was a triple-wide trailer made into an office space. The trailer’s only fortifications were T-walls, which are 12-foot-tall, steel-reinforced concrete barriers used to protect military personnel from explosions, rocket attacks and shrapnel. But T-walls could not protect the facility from an overhead strike.”
… Prior to the attack, there were discussions on the ground about whether the tactical operations center in question should not have been used, as it concentrated too many US troops in a location that wasn’t defendable. Preliminary battle damage assessments suggest the operations center in Kuwait was attacked by a one-way drone. Fire engulfed the buildings, which made recovery of the bodies difficult in the immediate aftermath of the strike.”
… “2 of the 3 sources told CBS they did not recall hearing the warning sirens that are commonly associated with counter-battery systems designed to detect incoming enemy ordnance that ultimately killed the service members. Additionally, there was no American counter-rocket, artillery and mortar system at Shuaiba port that could be used to bring down incoming drones or other deadly munitions.”
… “Requests were made for more capabilities to defeat incoming drones, but those additional resources never came. One source told CBS: ‘We basically had no drone defeat capability.’”
… 4 days after the Iran War started, the State Dept announced it was evacuating embassy personnel from 14 different countries in the Middle East and advised all Americans in those countries to leave immediately. However, due to DOGE cuts, the State Dept budget to evacuate Americans was slashed and the US govt has no ability to help anyone get out.
… US Embassy in Israel: “The US Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel. The US Embassy cannot make any recommendation (for or against) the Ministry of Tourism’s shuttle. If you choose to avail yourself of this option to depart, the US govt cannot guarantee your safety. The information is provided as a courtesy to those wishing to leave Israel.”
… US Ambassador Mike Huckabee: “For American who are currently in Israel I want to share this update on options for departing. There are VERY LIMITED options. As of now, the best is utilizing Israel’s Ministry of Tourism shuttle bus to Taba, Egypt and getting flights from there or going on to Cairo for flights back to the US.”
… “Not sure when Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv will reopen. Hopefully soon, but even when it does, there will be VERY limited flights with priorities to those who already were ticketed by El Al. Doubtful that other airlines will fly in/out for a while.”
… “The Ministry of Tourism is operating buses to Taba. There are some flights from Taba, but there are also options to get to Cairo and it’s operating normally except to Middle Eastern countries. To get out, it’s the best option for now. Praying your safe passage!
… Thoughts and prayers!
… Former Rep. Marge Greene: “American taxpayers are forced to give Israel $3.8 BILLION every single year, and here is our own US Embassy in Jerusalem telling Americans good luck getting out, you are on your own. The betrayal is unbelievable.”
… Former US Ambassador Luis Moreno: “Having been through several evacuations, and even helping direct a couple - this is simply mind boggling incompetence. This should have been done weeks ago, now total chaos. Maybe it was a mistake to have DOGE eliminate so many career officers in key embassies, you think?”
… Former CIA agent Marc Polymerdopous: “It’s stunning to me, having worked in embassies for years, how late this order has come. Absolute negligence by Marco Rubio, lack of planning and assessment by State. Nothing like previous conflicts. A first grader could have told you the embassy would be under significant threat from the immediate onset of hostilities.”
Super crazy day today with multiple hearings going on in Congress at the same time Trump was doing a press gaggle in the Oval Office. I did my best to keep up with everything and get as much as I could included here so you don’t miss anything important.
We also have the huge Texas primaries tonight - the results will happen after this is published. It looks like Cornyn and Paxton will advance to a runoff in their 3-way race. An expensive runoff ending in a Paxton win is the perfect scenario for Dems. Then there is Talarico/Crockett on the Dem side. UNITY after that one is a high priority. Hopefully we will have it, because the Republicans certainly don’t.
Two other races I’m watching are Rep. Tony Gonzales, who is embroiled in a major scandal over pressuring his staffer to have an affair which resulted in her suicide. Rep. Dan Crenshaw is also in big trouble in his primary.
Reminder that there is no Bulletin tomorrow because I will be doing my podcast Uncovered where I do a deeper dive into the top stories happening right now. Iran and the Texas election will certainly be at the top of the list of topics. If you missed yesterday’s Bulletin, you can find it here.
… Trump was asked about the evacuation debacle: Q - “Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan? Trump: Well, because it happened all very quickly, we thought, and I thought maybe more so than most. I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack.”
… He continued to take questions while meeting with German Chancellor Merz in the
Oval Office:
Q - “What's the worst case scenario that you have planned for in Iran? Trump: I don’t know if there’s a worst case. I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen.”
Q - “Reza Pahlavi, is he an option at all in your mind? Trump: It would seem to me that somebody from within maybe would be more appropriate. I've said that he looks like a very nice person, but it would seem to me that somebody that's there, that's currently popular if there's such a person.”
Q - “Do you have someone in mind right now because you said all the people you did have in mind have been taken out? Trump: We had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in. Pretty soon, we're not going to know anybody.”
“I have never had more compliments on something I did. So if we have a little high oil prices for a little while … but as soon as this is over I believe those prices will drop.”
“Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain actually said that we can't use their bases for Iran. And that's all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it.”
Trump on Iran: “If we don't stop them or if we didn't stop them or if we didn't start, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have taken out many countries because you know what? They're sick people. They're angry, they're sick.”
“This is not the age of Churchill. I will say the UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have that they gave away and took 100 year lease having to do with perhaps indigenous people claiming the island that never even saw the island before. What's that all about?”
… Dep. Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby at a Senate hearing: Sen. Warren: “The Trump admin's national defense strategy: ‘No longer will the dept be distracted by interventionism, endless wars, regime change, and nation building. Colby: This is not nation building. Warren: So this is not interventionism? Colby: No. Interventionism is more a responsibility to protect. Warren: Really? And we didn’t do this to try to protect Israel? Colby: That’s one of the goals. Warren: So it is interventionism.”
… NYT: “The US and Israeli bombing of Iran, and Iranian reprisals throughout the region, set dangers in motion that pose a substantial threat to global economic fortunes. The most alarming fears centered on the possibility that the Iranian govt - pushed to the brink of elimination - might unleash more aggressive retaliation, accepting the near-certainty of the intensified bombing of its own territory as the cost of fighting another day.”
… “The Iranians would presumably seek to damage the capacity to produce oil and gas in regional powers like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Any event that extends the conflict or threatens sources of oil and gas is likely to lift energy prices to levels that would sow inflation. That could prompt central banks worldwide to raise interest rates, pushing up the costs of mortgages, car loans and other borrowing. And that would choke off consumer spending and business investment - a classic pathway to a downturn.”
… Gas market analyst Patrick De Haan: “Oil prices surging again today, crude oil up $4.75/bbl another 7%, with gas up 5.2%, national average likely now to head closer to $3.30/gal and beyond over next few weeks. Brent crude oil hit its highest level since July 2024 this morning, touching nearly $85/bbl.”
… “National average price of gas yesterday saw its largest single day rise since March 4, 2022, rising 12c/gal. Nat avg price of diesel continues to jump, $3.863/gal, now the highest tally since May 25, 2024 and will head toward $4/gal.”
… CNN-SSRS poll: 59% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s decision to take military action in Iran. 60% do not think Trump has a clear plan for handling the situation. 62% say Trump should get congressional approval for any further military action.
… Bloomberg: “The ability of the US, Israel and Gulf Arab states to weather Iran’s retaliatory strikes will depend on how many missile interceptors they have - and stocks are most likely dangerously low after intense combat with the Islamic Republic last year. Tehran’s main means of offensive operations is long-range attacks with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones, all of which it launched after Israeli strikes in June 2025.”
… “This time around, Iran reacted to US and Israeli attacks by almost immediately firing on Israel and countries including Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Defending against such weapons requires an even bigger number of interceptors - typical military doctrine calls for firing 2-3 at each incoming target to maximize the chances of hitting it. Stocks of missile interceptors could be in danger of running low within days if the intensity of current Iranian attacks persists.”
… Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center: “Missile interceptors are a big concern, particularly anti-ballistic interceptors. We are using these interceptors faster than we can make them.”
… “The US fired about 150 THAAD interceptors last June to defend Israel during the 12-day war against Iran. Those weapons are the highest-end ground-based missile defense system in the American inventory, with each interceptor costing about $15 million. But only a few dozen were purchased last year.”
… Eyal Pinko, a former naval commander who does research at Bar Ilan Univ outside Tel Aviv: “A lot more attacks are coming. They have thousands of missiles and drones, huge stocks. They will do everything to maintain the regime. This is now an all-out war for their survival.”
… Caroline Sunshine, 2024 Trump campaign Dep. Comms Director, on Fox: “6 months ago, Iran's nuclear program was completely obliterated and anybody that said otherwise was fake news. Now we have been told that somehow, they were able to restart the program. Now we are told that we have completely destroyed it again. If all of that has been done, why are we still there?”
… Sunshine: “This quote from the Chair of the Joint Chiefs: ‘We expect to take additional losses. This is a major combat operation.’ I voted for and worked for Trump because I didn't want to hear statements like that for my govt again regarding American involvement in the Middle East.”
… Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox: “Bibi and Trump are the modern Roosevelt/Churchill combination.”
… Sen. Tommy Tuberville on NewsNation: “This is not your Democrat war. This is President Trump’s war. And he’s not going in to be politically correct.”
… Benjamin Netayahu was on Sean Hannity’s Fox show last night talking about the US/Israel war against Iran. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI): “Why is the PM of Israel going on TV to explain this war and not the President of the US?”
… Netanyahu: “I have spoken about this for decades, and I tried to persuade successive American admins to take action and Trump did. There’s never been a president like Donald J. Trump. We’re very lucky to have him as the leader of the free world - I think the whole world.”
… Sen. John Fetterman went on Hannity after Netanyahu: “It’s a good thing for Israel. It’s good for America. And so for me I stand with the country over perhaps what the Democratic base may demand.”
… Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on MS NOW: “I remember Netanyahu coming to testify in Congress and advocating for us to invade Iraq, saying it was going to be a great result for the Middle East. I'm seeing it again now. Young American men and women are dying because of these idiots. These idiots that are just willing to sacrifice US men, US women, without any real thought about what they're doing and what the consequences are.”
… Gallego: “There's a lot of ways that we could be supportive of Israel. There's a lot of ways that we could defend Israel's existence. I'm 100% for that. But we don't need to go to war for them, especially when it's a dumb war.”
… Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) to CNN on the admin’s statement that they went to war because of Israel: “Does it make sense if we are going to outsource our foreign policy decisions to another govt? I am a strong supporter of Israel, but do I want Netanyahu making the decision of when and where Israel will strike and then bring Americans into a war?”
… Marc Polymeropoulos: “Rubio in his statement and the admin’s decision to toss this war all on Israel may have catastrophic effects on future American support for Israel. I texted an Israeli friend right after Rubio’s presser and he said that it’s a step away from essentially blaming Israel (which he did) to saying ‘blame the Jews.’ I was stunned at the abject stupidity of this tact from the admin and it left me speechless. All the anti-semitic crazies feel validated now.”
… Steve Witkoff was on Fox talking about his negotiations with Iran: “Trump sent me and Jared Kushner there to determine if they were serious about a deal. We tried to make a fair one, but by the end of the second meeting, it was clear it was impossible.”
… Republicans are already signaling that they are about to put together a massive special defense appropriations package to replace stockpiles being depleted by Trump’s many wars. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) on Fox: Q - “Is it time to use the defense production act to ramp up our missile output? Sheehy: It’s time to use every lever at our disposal to increase our industrial base for our military.”
… Trump posted: “The Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better. At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be. Much additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries. Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time, and our Country’s money, GIVING everything to P.T. Barnum (Zelensky!) of Ukraine - And, while he gave so much of the super high end away (FREE!), he didn’t bother to replace it.”
… So basically Trump is using up the entire stockpile of our most expensive weapons bombing 7 different places around the world over the past year, so now he needs a fortune from taxpayers to replace them while he blames Biden and Zelensky for it.
… Sen. Chris Murphy on CNN: “There is zero history of an air strike campaign alone toppling a dictatorship and transitioning a country to democracy. We know that air strikes do not knock out Iran’s nuclear capability. Why? Because we did air strikes last year. Trump lied to the American public.”
… CBS: “Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the ‘ongoing conflict in the Middle East.’ Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in UAE, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility.”
… Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL): “The Speaker should immediately cancel Congress recess break next week! We are only working 2 days this week and then we go on break for 10 days. But the Speaker of the House did cancel our foreign affairs committee meeting so that we didn’t discuss Iran.”
… Mike Johnson's strategy to allow the Trump admin to do whatever it wants with zero oversight or congressional authority or input is just to keep the House out of session repeatedly for extended periods of time.
… Crypto analyst on X who alerts users about scams: “The crypto industry has a massive problem: it never built anything useful. After a decade and billions in funding, most projects are just hollow shells with no real users. Insiders and VCs are sitting on mountains of tokens they can’t sell because there is no one left to buy them.”
… “This is where the Trump alliance comes in. Backing Trump was never about ‘adoption’ or ‘innovation.’ What the industry wanted was to use deregulation as a weapon. They weren’t looking for a better future; they were looking for a get out of jail free card to turn the market into a lawless extraction zone.”
… “The Strategy: Use Trump’s platform to pump the market one last time. Convince a fresh wave of retail investors that ‘the bull run is back.’ While the public is distracted by the hype, the insiders offload their worthless tokens onto the new buyers. Once they’ve cashed out into real dollars, they don’t care if the industry burns. They’ve already stripped the copper from the walls.”
… “They didn’t hand Trump the keys to the industry because they trusted his driving skills. They handed them over because they knew he’d likely drive the car off a cliff, and they plan to jump out with the money before it hits the ground and explodes.”
… Sen. Chris Murphy on the Trump admin terminating Anthropic’s AI contract with the govt: Q - “Are you concerned about the use of AI in mass surveillance or autonomous killing machines, which Anthropic wanted to have veto power over? Murphy: Yeah, Anthropic is right in the objections that they raised, and it should be bone-chilling that this admin is using the power of the govt to try to cripple an American corporation.”
… “What they’re saying is that if you don’t support us politically, we’re going to put you out of business. Most big corporations do business with the federal govt, and the govt always has the ability to effectively shut down a company. But we’ve never allowed that to happen based on a political difference between that company and the admin.”
… AI market analyst Aakash Gupta: “Anthropic’s Claude went from #131 on the App Store in late January to #1 this weekend. Passed ChatGPT. Free users up 60% since Jan. Paid subs doubled this year. Daily signups breaking all-time records every day this week. And Anthropic’s response to all that attention? Ship memory on the free plan. Make the free tier stickier at the exact moment millions of new users are flooding in.”
… “The math tells you everything about how they view this moment. The Pentagon contract was worth up to $200M. Anthropic pulls in $14B annually. That’s 1.4% of revenue. They traded 1.4% of revenue for the #1 app in America and a brand loyalty moment that no ad budget on earth could manufacture.”
… “The consumer market opened wide for them at the precise moment DOD’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation was supposed to shut them down. Katy Perry posted her switch to a Claude Pro subscription. Reddit organized ChatGPT cancellations. 700+ employees at Google and OpenAI signed an open letter backing Anthropic’s position.”
… “Every product leader should study this sequence. The designation was supposed to be punishment. Anthropic converted it into the largest consumer acquisition event in AI history, then immediately shipped product to retain every new user walking through the door. This team is operating at the highest of levels right now.”
… Cato Institute on Trump admin’s delays in refunding tariff money: “These delays would leave American taxpayers on the hook for billions in interest that the govt would owe importers on top of the tariff refunds - interest that the govt has already acknowledged in multiple public filings and has promised to pay. We calculate that $700 million in interest is added to the final bill every month that the govt delays tariff refunds, or around $23 million per day.”
… NY Post: “Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s top aides are resigning from the dept amid an inspector general’s probe into their alleged mistreatment of staff and misuse of taxpayer dollars for personal travel with the Cabinet official. Chief of staff Jihun Han and deputy Rebecca Wright were offered the choice of resigning or being fired by the WH.”
… “People familiar with the probe indicated that investigators had gathered sufficient evidence of a “toxic” work environment created by the pair, including verbal abuse of staffers and waste of departmental resources on personal travel. A complaint accused Chavez-DeRemer of having Han and Wright ‘make up’ official trips, seeking out conferences or speaking engagements at destinations where the secretary could also visit family members or travel for pleasure.”
… “The labor secretary also faced allegations of drinking in her office during the workday, enabling a ‘hostile’ workplace - with Han and Wright belittling and bullying staffers - and pursuing an ‘inappropriate’ relationship with a member of her security detail. Han and Wright were said to have provided cover for the secretary’s alleged misconduct, with Han having leaned on staffers to silence questions about Chavez-DeRemer’s rumored affair by instructing them to ‘leave it alone’.”
… HuffPost: “Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) announced he will not run for reelection, perhaps boosting Democrats’ chances of retaking the House in 2026. Zinke wrote in a letter to his constituents that injuries he suffered as a Navy SEAL have resulted in multiple surgeries since he returned to Congress in 2023. He will need more. Zinke endorsed a possible successor, Republican talk radio host Aaron Flint, but Democrats are targeting the district as a possibility to flip.”
… Zinke’s Democratic opponent Ryan Busse made this comment while posting 5 different polls showing he was up 5-7 points over Zinke: “Don’t buy the BS from Zinke about why he retired. I was about to beat him and he knew it.”
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