The System Is Working - Just Not for You

Send us a message!!! The Chairman of Chaos and Manny held it down this week, and this one covers alot.

RECONCILIATION 2.0 | The Senate passed a $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding bill at 4:47 AM after an 18-hour Voterama. 52-47. Lisa Murkowski voted no.

Democrats got nothing they asked for: no judicial warrant requirements before ICE can enter homes, no mandatory body cameras, and no SAVE Act block. The $1.8B anti-weaponization fund got stripped.

ICE is now funded through January 2029, the largest ICE recruitment appropriation in the agency's history. And it still has to clear the House.

TODD BLANCHE FOR AG | Trump's personal criminal defense attorney, the man who represented him through 34 felony charges, is now the nominee for Attorney General. Tom Tillis is on the Judiciary Committee and has zero equivocation.

Pam Bondi said in her own hearing that she let Blanche handle everything. Dead cases are about to come back to life.

BILL PULTE, ACTING DNI | No intelligence experience. No military background.

No security clearance history. The FHFA Director and social media personality is your next Director of National Intelligence.

John Thune, the Republican Majority Leader, has already publicly said that the DNI needs professionals. Manny and Chuck prayed on it.

Literally. CHAIRMAN'S MOMENT OF CHAOS | Jared Kushner and Ivanka's $1.4 billion euro eco-resort on Albania's only undeveloped island has put hundreds of thousands in the streets on consecutive days.

They're calling it the Flamingo Revolution. It makes the No Kings protests look like a field trip.

SPOTLIGHTS | Chuck breaks down the SpaceX IPO $1.75 trillion valuation, $2.6 billion loss in 2025, Elon retains 85% voting control, and the regulatory guardrails have been rolled back. Manny covers the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966, that just crossed the Texas border.

DOGE cut the monitoring program. Canada already blocked Texas livestock imports.

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