Trump Drops Name For Next Supreme Court Nominee..
On Friday, President Donald Trump mentioned that he was considering nominating Republican Senator Ted Cruz for a future position on the U.S. Supreme Court. However, Cruz had previously stated last month that he was not interested in the nomination.
At a rally in Corpus Christi, Trump referred to Cruz as “an amazing guy” and joked that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress would easily confirm him because they would want to see him leave the Senate,
Reuters reported.
“He’s the only guy I know, he’ll get 100% of the Democrat vote, 100% of the Republican vote. They want to get him out of there. He is such a pain in the ass, but he’s so good and so talented,” Trump quipped.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s global tariff authority earlier this week under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act on Friday in a 6–3 ruling. Within hours, Trump signed a new order
from the Oval Office imposing a 10 percent global tariff under separate legal authority.
The ruling was immediately followed by action from the White House, Fox News reported. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., addressed the decision during an appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
Kennedy argued the ruling could prove politically insignificant given the timing and the revenue already collected under the tariffs. He cited $300 billion in tariff revenue collected under Trump’s trade authority.
According to Kennedy, that revenue is already in federal coffers and the trade agreements negotiated under the tariff structure have been completed.
“My Democratic peeps better be careful what they ask for because if he gives back $300 billion worth of tariff money to the business community in America, this economy’s [going to] roar, man, and the midterms are only a few months off,” Kennedy said. “Stevie Wonder could see this decision coming,”
Tariff revenue reached $30.4 billion in January alone, a 275 percent increase compared to January 2025.
Kennedy said the Supreme Court ruled on the legality of the mechanism used to impose the tariffs, but noted that the authority had already been exercised.
“The president didn’t just sit around admiring that trade authority, that tariff authority, sucking on his teeth,” Kennedy said.
“He used it, and he used it to negotiate trade agreements,” he added.
Trump declared the country’s trade deficit a national emergency in 2025 and asserted tariff authority under IEEPA.
Trade agreements negotiated during that period remain in place. Last week, Trump announced the new tariff order on Truth Social. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.
The White House said the revenue generated from the tariffs could help fund domestic initiatives and reduce the national debt.
The new 10 percent global tariff remains in effect under separate authority. The trade agreements negotiated prior to the ruling remain intact.
Democrats praised the Court’s decision, arguing that tariffs increase costs for consumers. The administration moved quickly to implement an alternative mechanism before the end of the day.
President Trump kept complaining on Monday about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to block his wide-ranging tariffs. Since the decision on Friday, Trump has posted at least six messages on Truth Social criticizing the Supreme Court.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the court “accidentally and unknowingly” gave him “far more powers and strength” than before the “internationally divisive” ruling. He also hinted that he expects to lose another legal battle after the court hears arguments about his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
“I can use Licenses to do absolutely ‘terrible’ things to foreign countries, especially those countries that have been RIPPING US OFF for many decades, but incomprehensibly, according to the ruling, can’t charge them a License fee — BUT ALL LICENSES CHARGE FEES, why can’t the United States do so?” Trump said in his post.
Trump later raised the global tariff to 15 percent.
Ilhan Omar Challenger Alleges Ties To Growing Minn. Fraud Scandal
Republican challenger John Nagel is accusing Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of being deeply tied to the $1 billion Feeding Our Future fraud scandal centered in her Minneapolis-based congressional district. Nagel, who is running against Omar in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, alleged that legislation introduced by Omar helped create the conditions that allowed the fraud to occur.
“Where did this actually start?” Nagel said, Townhall reported. “She passed legislation. Her legislation actually started it, and it allowed people to get into Feeding Our Future.”
Nagel pointed to the geographic concentration of the fraud.
“If you look at where the fraud is, it’s primarily her district, the district that I’m running in against her,” he said. “And it’s really odd to think that all the fraud just happened in a particular area.”
Omar introduced the Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students Act, known as the MEALS Act, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill allowed states to provide free meals to children during school closures through alternative methods such as grab-and-go distribution and eased eligibility requirements.
The legislation was passed by Congress with bipartisan support.
Nagel alleged that individuals within Omar’s political orbit financially benefited from the fraud scheme.
He said Omar held campaign events at Safari Restaurant, a business linked to the scandal, had personal familiarity with one of its now-convicted owners, and employed a staffer who was later convicted in connection with the case.
“If you’re going to be in politics, you need to go through the people at the Safari Land restaurant,” Nagel said. “They kind of control the politics. That was her hangout. That’s where she spent money and got donations.”
Nagel said multiple individuals convicted in the case donated money to Omar’s campaign.
“Omar says that she gave the money back,” he said. “Public records show she gave some money back, but there’s a whole lot more money there that she didn’t report.”
“There’s just too much circumstantial evidence to look at this and say she had to have known something,” Nagel added. “Or at least someone on her staff knew something.”
Nagel criticized Omar’s public response to the scandal, accusing her of deflecting scrutiny.
“She made statements about how terrible it is to steal food from children,” Nagel said. “That’s a nice thing to say, but you have way too many people you’re associated with who actually did that.”
Omar said last week that the fraud stemmed from weaknesses in emergency pandemic programs.
“When you have these kinds of new programs that are designed to help people, you’re oftentimes relying on third parties to facilitate,” Omar said. “A lot of the COVID programs were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.”
Nagel said the solution is a change in leadership.
“We get rid of Ilhan Omar, and we put people in Minnesota who actually want to do the right thing,” he said. “You’re going to have to entirely root out the Democratic Party and anyone who’s been letting things slide.”
Omar has not been charged or accused of wrongdoing by law enforcement, and no criminal case has been brought against her in connection with the fraud investigation.
President Donald Trump this month ripped Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as “garbage” and said Somalis should “go back to where they came from.”
“I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, OK. Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason,” he said.
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“Their country stinks, and we don’t want them in our country,” Trump said of the historically failed nation.
“With Somalia, which is barely a country, you know, they have no, they have no anything. They just run around killing each other. There’s no structure,” the president added.
