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AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib President Donald Trump is so incensed about funding for his ballroom project being dropped from the budget bill that he is trying to badger Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) into firing the Senate Parliamentarian, according to several media reports. The ballroom has been a pet project for the president, who boasted last September that it would be “absolutely magnificent construction” and “one of the best anywhere in the world,” but it has sparked significant controversy, chiefly Trump’s broken promise that the construction “won’t interfere with the current building” and would be “near [the East Wing] but not touching it.” Very soon after Trump said that, the façade was demolished, then an additional major section, and eventually the East Wing was demolished in its entirety. The president also initially touted projects as being funded by private donors, but the specifics remained murky, and the endeavor has raised ethical questions about conflicts of interest. After the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump and other Republicans pushed for taxpayer funding for the ballroom. The budget reconciliation bill, which is being pushed forward on a party-line vote by the GOP majority, includes $1 billion in funding for the Secret Service, with several hundred million dedicated to “modernization” and security upgrades to the ballroom project. However, on Saturday, this plan hit a snag when the Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, made a determination that the budget rules blocked this $1 billion from being included in this bill. It’s rare for the parliamentarian to attract any media attention. It’s a nonpartisan gig responsible for keeping track of the Senate’s myriad and arcane rules, and issuing determinations on their interpretation and application. On Saturday, MacDonough ruled that Trump’s ballroom budget ran afoul of the “Byrd Rule,” which says non-budget items cannot pass with a simple majority. Republicans do not have enough of a majority in the Senate to beat a filibuster. Senate Republicans said they would try again and revise the provision to comply with the Byrd Rule. That is not enough to satisfy the president, who is pushing for MacDonough to be fired, and called Thune about it, according to a report by Burgess Everett and Shelby Talcott at Semafor. Taylor Giorno and Al Weaver at NOTUS confirmed the Semafor report with their own sources, citing three people familiar with the request. Trump called Thune “to express his frustrations with [MacDonough’s]… [TheTopNews] Read More.17 mins ago - Hannity Tells Embattled Kash Patel, ‘Obviously, You’re Doing an Incredible J...
Fox News host Sean Hannity praised FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday night, telling him, “Obviously, you’re doing an incredible job.” Patel has come under scrutiny after reports about his alleged excessive drinking and use of the FBI’s jet. Last month, The Atlantic published an explosive report saying Patel had thought President Donald Trump fired him after he believed he had been locked out of an FBI computer system. That report also stated that “members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” In one instance, members of the detail called for “breaching equipment” because Patel was unavailable behind locked doors. The report came on the heels of a controversial viral video of Patel chugging beer in the U.S. men’s hockey team’s locker room after winning the gold medal. Patel is suing The Atlantic for $250 million. The director appeared on Monday’s Hannity, just hours after two gunmen opened fire at a mosque in San Diego, killing three. Police say the gunmen, two teenagers, later killed themselves. The host briefly mentioned the mosque shooting during his show, but when interviewing Patel, he asked why churches and synagogues are being attacked. “Director, I know a lot of pastors, I know a lot of rabbis around the country,” Hannity said. “Without exception, they have all upped their security level to the highest levels they’ve ever had to before. Why does it appear that churches and synagogues are being targeted like never before?” “Because these people are pure evil,” Patel replied. “These people wish to target Americans based on their faith because they are intolerant of the way America operates. They are jealous of the American democracy that we have here, and they choose to be cowards and target us from afar based on our institutions and our houses of worship and our faith. And that’s what separates America from the rest of the world.” “Americans deserve law and order and safety and security,” Hannity replied. “Obviously, you’re doing an incredible job. The numbers do speak for themselves.” Last week, it was reported that Patel had gone on a “VIP snorkel” excursion at the USS Arizona, which sank during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Watch above via Fox News.The post Hannity Tells Embattled Kash Patel, ‘Obviously, You’re Doing an Incredible Job’ first appeared… [TheTopNews] Read More.28 mins ago - Paramount Considering Yanking Some Control From Bari Weiss to Give To ‘More Ex...
Daniel Paik via AP Paramount seems to be running out of patience with how Bari Weiss is running CBS News, with the parent company considering taking some control away from her to hand over to a “more experienced” television executive, according to a report by Puck’s Dylan Byers. Skydance CEO and founder David Ellison was reportedly courting Weiss for a key role even before his company’s merger with Paramount was completed, and quickly bought her media company and named her CBS News editor-in-chief. Weiss had written for The New York Times for years before launching The Free Press, but had no broadcast journalism experience. Many observers have characterized Weiss’ tenure so far as rocky. SCOOP: Paramount leadership has had informal discussions about changing Bari Weiss’s mandate at CBS News (and, eventually, CNN) in ways that would give her less control over TV. New tonight at @PuckNews: https://t.co/SRvm2zX4iD — Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) May 19, 2026 Weiss has thus far “endured her role as media punching bag with relative aplomb,” Byers wrote, and has had the support of Ellison and other top Paramount execs. “But there are signs that the dynamics are starting to shift,” Byers added, sharing conversations he had had about people on Paramount’s senior leadership team having “informal discussions about changing Bari’s mandate at CBS News—and, eventually, CNN—in ways that would give her less control over the linear product.” Instead, wrote Byers, “Paramount would look to bring in an executive who could manage that business.” Nothing has been decided or formalized yet, but “sources with knowledge of the conversations” told Byers that Weiss “would likely cede day-to-day control over Evening News, CBS Mornings, and 60 Minutes to this more experienced, as-yet-unnamed executive, shifting her focus to the news division’s digital growth while maintaining broad editorial influence across all the company’s platforms.” The motivation, reported Byers, is a sense among Paramount’s top brass that Weiss “was given too broad a mandate for someone without previous experience in television, as well as some irritation with the ceaseless barrage of negative press,” and sources inside CBS News “complain[ing] that Bari is drastically overstretched, and lacks the experience and managerial skills necessary to run the network.” Byers commented that it was “entirely unfair to pin this misadventure” of CBS News’ woes totally on Weiss, as the merger created an “unprecedented situation” and Ellison “may have been working through his own… [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago - Dozens of Polymarket Bets Show Signs of Insider Trading, The Times Finds
Dozens of long-shot bets on Polymarket, from the war with Iran to the cryptocurrency market, have defied the odds, according to a New York Times examination. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - BREAKING: San Diego Mosque Shooters ID’ed
AP Photo/Gregory Bull Officials have identified Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, as the suspects in Monday’s shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, NBC News reported, citing senior law enforcement officials. The suspects killed three people, including a security guard at San Diego’s largest mosque, before killing themselves, police said. While early reports suggested the suspects had been killed by law enforcement, officials now say they died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Clark reportedly took three weapons from his mother’s home and her car to carry out the attack. Investigators are looking into hate speech found at the scene. “There was no specific threat, especially no specific threat to the Islamic Center,” Police Chief Scott Wahl said of the rhetoric being investigated. “It was just general hate kind of speech that I think covered a wide gamut. Again, we are still actively investigating this as we speak, but it was more generalized.”The post BREAKING: San Diego Mosque Shooters ID’ed first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘F***ing Idiot’: Cuban Deletes Post Slamming People Who Criticized Him Over ...
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson Billionaire Mark Cuban deleted an X post branding anyone who criticized him a “f*cking idiot” after he attended a press conference with President Donald Trump. The president spoke to the press about TrumpRx.gov, a program aimed at offering discounted pricing for medication, and announced that it would offer 600 low-cost generic drugs in partnership with Amazon, GoodRx and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs. The latter, Cuban’s company, sells pharmaceutical drugs at cost with a 15 percent markup and a fixed $5 fee, plus $5 for shipping. Cuban has previously been a staunch critic of Trump and ardently endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. His presence behind Trump at the lectern, and his subsequent refusal to comment on his politics while standing outside the White House, drew ire and sarcastic snubs from Trump critics on social media. In a now-deleted post, Cuban appeared to respond directly to the criticism. “If anyone thinks I’m going to put politics ahead of helping Americans reduce their cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, they are f*cking idiot,” he wrote. “Tell me one person who thinks that healthcare economics are well run in this country. It’s the biggest affordability issue, and, the greatest fear of most families is that they won’t be able to afford a significant healthcare or medication cost. The goal is the goal. And that goal is to change healthcare. I’ve been saying it for years and will continue to work on this.” Cuban took to X in a subsequent post, claiming he deleted the former as the cursing hindered his message. “Deleted the last post because I decided cursing didn’t make my point,” he wrote. “It hurt it. And I rarely care about cursing.”The post ‘F***ing Idiot’: Cuban Deletes Post Slamming People Who Criticized Him Over Trump Meeting first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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