The administration is mulling a plan for a massive taxpayer-funded slush fund for Trump’s closest allies.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that has never once been banned from a D.C. bar for launching into antisemitic rants directed at Irish-Italian Catholic lawmakers. Now, anti-Catholic rants directed at Jewish lawmakers? That’s a different story.
This week, we maintain our unnecessary obsession with the California governor’s race and get to work on our obituary of Sen. Bill Cassidy’s political career. Silly episodes abounded in congressional budget hearings. Plus: The mysterious case of a missing New Jersey lawmaker.
