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Trump administration puts key Biden-era immigration policy on notice: ‘Unsustainable cycle’

The Supreme Court has not yet indicated whether it will take up the case for consideration.

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Published March 11, 2026 6:57pm EDT

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Haiti leader says country is ‘helpless’ if United States ends TPS

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The Trump administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow it to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the U.S.

It’s the latest effort by the administration to unwind Biden-era protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. as part of the president’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court Wednesday to immediately intervene and overturn a lower court order that blocked the administration’s effort to immediately revoke the temporary protected status designation for some 350,000 Haitian migrants living in the U.S.

A majority of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end the program, citing the “substantial” and “well-documented harms” the migrants would likely face as a result, clearing the way for the administration to appeal the case to the high court.

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In his filing Wednesday, Sauer urged the Supreme Court to review more broadly the issue of whether the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for other migrants living in the U.S.

“Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges — issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide — this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim orders,” Sauer said Wednesday. “This court should break that cycle.”

The TPS program in question allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

Haitians were first granted TPS status in 2010 after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left some 1.5 million in the country homeless.

The protections were extended several times, including under the Biden administration in 2021 after the July assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s last democratically elected president.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaks from a podium as assembled DHS staff watch.(Al Drago/Getty Images)

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced in November that the U.S. would be ending TPS protections for Haitians in the U.S., prompting a group of individuals living in the U.S. with protected status to file suit.

The Trump administration’s Supreme Court filing marks the second time this year the administration has asked the high court to immediately intervene and allow it to strip TPS protections for certain migrants.

Lawyers for the Justice Department also asked the Supreme Court last month to allow it to revoke TPS designations for Syrian migrants in the U.S., though the high court has yet to rule on that request.

The appeal comes just weeks after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Department of Homeland Security from immediately revoking the TPS designations for Haitians in the U.S.

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D. John Sauer, nominee to be solicitor general, testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building Feb. 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Reyes described the administration’s effort to abruptly wind down the designation as “arbitrary and capricious” and accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of failing to consider the “overwhelming evidence of present danger” in Haiti, which she noted had prompted the Biden administration to extend TPS protections for Haitians in the first place.

“The government cannot name a single concrete harm from maintaining the status quo,” Reyes said. “And so instead it argues that the court’s decision is ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the government.’”

The appeal comes as the Trump administration has sought to wind down most TPS designations, arguing the programs have been extended for too long under Democratic presidents.

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Trump officials have also taken aim at lower courts that have sought to block or pause their efforts to wind down TPS protections, accusing the lower court judges of exceeding their authority and unlawfully intruding on the executive branch’s authority on immigration policy.

Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI and other national news. She previously covered national politics at the Washington Examiner and The Washington Post, with additional bylines in Politico Magazine, the Colorado Gazette and others. You can send tips to Breanne at Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com, or follow her on X at @breanne_dep.

After Trump called for GOP Rep. Massie’s defeat, conservative groups spending over $5 million to try to oust him in May primary

Updated on: March 11, 2026 / 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News

Outside groups are already spending more than $5 million in hopes of unseating GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a May primary after President Trump called for his defeat.

So far, federal campaign finance records show that anti-Massie forces have dominated much of the outside spending picture in the Kentucky contest where the congressman is facing a pro-Trump challenge from Ed Gallrein, whose campaign website describes him as a farmer who has also served in the U.S. Navy. Spending disclosures show that a Super PAC has directed more than $2.8 million towards the contest since late February, while the group MAGA KY has spent around $2.7 million this cycle.

Since he arrived in Congress back in 2012, the Libertarian-minded Massie has taken lonely political stands on Capitol Hill, including voting against spending on the Iron Dome missile defense system for Israel, which has put him at odds with members of his own party. He was also one of the only House Republicans who voted against Mr. Trump’s massive spending and policy bill, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. His opposition towards high-profile GOP issues put him on a collision course with Mr. Trump last year, one that appeared to only accelerate after he helped push through a hard-fought transparency bill that forced the Justice Department to release an enormous amount of records from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

But Massie has benefited from some outside support, too, in his re-election run to the tune of around $1.18 million. Yet that figure is overshadowed by the cash attempting to help his opponent. Massie’s northern Kentucky district is reliably Republican and not expected to be competitive in the general election. This year isn’t the first time Massie has faced a primary challenge, but it is expected to be his toughest race to date, given the national dynamics and the attention of the president.

Massie is at risk of becoming another House Republican to fall in a primary. Earlier this month in Texas, incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was defeated in a contest that saw State Rep. Steve Toth primary the congressman from the right.

Crenshaw failed to secure Mr. Trump’s endorsement, though the president did not publicly side against the incumbent. Around a week before his win, Toth was endorsed by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in a warning signal of the way the race was going for Crenshaw. More than $3.8 million in outside spending went into that primary, a mark already far eclipsed in Kentucky.

The president has crusaded against Massie over the last year, a push that only grew as he prepared to head Wednesday to Hebron, Kentucky, which is in Massie’s district. Writing on Truth Social before his trip, Mr. Trump doubled down on his support of Gallrein, and later in a separate post predicted that “Massie will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress.”

Massie responded Wednesday morning, saying in a post on X, “I predict “President” DJT will begrudgingly sign my beautiful Epstein Files Transparency Act, causing beleaguered princes and ambassadors and prime ministers and CEOs around the world to be arrested or resign in total shame. Oh wait, that already happened.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/massie-on-fbi-doj-leaders-being-criminally-liable-if-trump-doesnt-release-all-epstein-files/

How the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute over AI safeguards escalated

By Reuters
March 11, 2026 8:35 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

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March 11 (Reuters) – A standoff erupted between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic in January after the AI lab refused to loosen safety guardrails on its systems, prompting the Pentagon to label it a ‘supply-chain risk,’ and putting the company’s government contracts in jeopardy.

The Claude maker’s executives warned that the designation, ​which they view as retaliation for opposing the use of their technology in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, could slash their ‌2026 revenue by billions of dollars.

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Legal experts suggest the government’s case may be undermined by a mismatch between the law invoked and Anthropic’s conduct, internal contradictions in the Pentagon’s behavior and evidence that its decision may have been driven by animus rather than security.

Here is a timeline of the ongoing conflict:

January 29 The Pentagon and Anthropic clash over eliminating safeguards that could allow the ​government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance
February 11 The Pentagon pushes AI companies, including Anthropic, to make their ​AI tools available in classified settings without many of the standard restrictions that the companies apply to other users
February ⁠14 The Pentagon considers ending its ties with Anthropic over the AI lab’s insistence on keeping some limits on how the U.S. military uses its models
February 23 U.S. ​Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for talks on the military use of Claude
February 24 The Pentagon asks Anthropic to get on board, ​or risk consequences, including being labeled a supply-chain risk
February 25 The Pentagon asks defense contractors, including Boeing (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), to assess their reliance on Anthropic
February 26 Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell asks Anthropic to allow the Pentagon to use its technology for all lawful purposes, giving the company until 5:01 p.m. ET on February 27 to decide
February 26 Anthropic says it will not accede to ​the Pentagon’s request to eliminate safeguards from its AI systems
February 27 U.S. President Donald Trump directs every federal agency to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology
February ​27 Hegseth directs the U.S. DoD to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security”
February 27 Anthropic says it will challenge in court the Pentagon’s decision
February 27 OpenAI announces deal to deploy technology in the ‌DoD’s classified ⁠network
February 28 OpenAI says its latest agreement with the Pentagon includes three red lines: its technology cannot be used for mass domestic surveillance, to direct autonomous weapons systems or for any high-stakes automated decisions
March 2 The U.S. Departments of State, Treasury and Health and Human Services move to cease using Anthropic’s Claude
March 3 Lockheed Martin pledges to follow the DoD’s direction, signaling a likely exodus of defense contractors removing Anthropic’s tools from their supply chains to protect their federal contracts, legal experts say
March 4 U.S. ​Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells CNBC that the ​agency will remove Anthropic from ⁠its government systems within days
March 4 Big tech industry group pushes to de-escalate the clash, saying a supply-chain risk designation creates uncertainty for companies and could threaten the military’s access to the best products and services
March 5 The U.S. DoD formally designates Anthropic ​as a supply-chain risk
March 6 Amazon says it is helping customers transition DoD workloads to alternative models on its ​cloud, while customers and ⁠partners could continue using Claude for all non‑Pentagon workloads
March 6 The U.S. General Services Administration draws up strict rules for civilian artificial-intelligence contracts and terminates Anthropic’s OneGov deal, which made Claude available to the federal government
March 9 Anthropic sues to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, saying the designation is unlawful and violates ⁠its free ​speech and due process rights
March 9 Anthropic executives say the U.S. government’s blacklisting of the AI firm ​could cut its 2026 revenue by multiple billions of dollars and cause reputational harm
March 10 Microsoft (MSFT.O)files a brief backing Anthropic’s lawsuit, saying the DoD designation directly affects it and that a temporary restraining ​order is needed to avoid costly supplier disruptions and rushed rebuilding of products that depend on Anthropic

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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says war with Iran has been “effective”

March 11, 2026 / 7:24 PM EDT / CBS News

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Wednesday he believes the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has been “effective” and is moving toward an “appropriate outcome.”

“I think, overall, what’s accomplished is remarkable,” Fetterman told CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett in an interview Wednesday.

Pressed on whether the war was going “well,” Fetterman responded, “Yes, absolutely. I mean, I’m not sure it’s the right word I would choose for war, but I do think it’s very effective. And then I do think it’s moving towards the kinds of appropriate outcome.”

Fetterman argued that the conflict has shown Iran’s military capabilities to be weak, saying it’s “undeniable that Iran really never had the kind of capabilities to respond.”

“Overall, they have been unable to inflict any significant damage on American assets or in Israel,” Fetterman said, adding that Iran has been forced “to resort” to launching strikes on Gulf nations and disrupting the regional oil trade.

Iran has launched missiles and drones at Israel and at several U.S.-allied Arab states, including American bases in those countries — though the Trump administration says the volume of incoming strikes has dropped as Iranian missile launchers are bombed.

Seven U.S. service members have been killed and around 140 have been wounded since the war began, according to the Pentagon. In one attack on a U.S. facility in Kuwait, six Americans were killed and dozens suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, CBS News has previously reported.

Ship traffic through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which normally accounts for the passage of about 20% of global oil, has been crippled by the war, sending oil prices spiking.

Fetterman told Garrett he’s the “only Democrat in the Senate” that supports the war, later adding he was “aware of how punishing it is as a Democrat to agree with him [President Trump] on anything.”

On March 4, a Senate resolution that would have blocked Mr. Trump from continuing to use military force against Iran failed in a 53-47 vote, with Fetterman the only Democrat to cross the aisle and vote against it.

Last summer, Fetterman also joined his Republican colleagues to vote against a measure that would have blocked Mr. Trump from using military force against Iran, the only Democrat to do so.

On Feb. 28, hours after the U.S. and Israel launched their attack, Fetterman took to social media to express his support for the war effort, writing that Mr. Trump was “willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.”

The senator said Wednesday that it is “very clear that” acquiring nuclear weapons is Iran’s “ambition.”

He also alleged that attempts by previous administrations to negotiate with Iran on its nuclear program failed, making the war “necessary.”

“Multiple presidents, through their administrations, have tried this, negotiation, treaties, all other kinds of techniques to work through our other allies in the region and cajole them, no incentives,” Fetterman said.

In 2018, Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an Iran nuclear deal that had been negotiated in 2015 by his predecessor, then-President Barack Obama.

At the time, Mr. Trump claimed Iran was “on the cusp” of acquiring nuclear weapons. Since the war began earlier this month, the White House and Israeli officials have reiterated their belief that Iran was developing nuclear weapons, though neither the U.S. nor Israel has provided evidence to back up their claims.

In a March 2025 report, the U.S. intelligence community determined that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. While Iran has long said its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes, it enriches uranium to near weapons-grade levels.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-john-fetterman-support-iran-war-being-at-odds-with-democrats-more/

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House Oversight Committee demands depositions from Bondi and Lutnick in Epstein probe

By Louis Casiano | Fox News
Published March 11, 2026 7:43pm EDT

The House Oversight Committee has issued a 30-day deadline for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear for a formal deposition

The House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation wants U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear in 30 days for a deposition, Fox News has learned.

The committee also wants Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to appear for a deposition “within the next ten days,” a source close to the committee said.

This story is breaking. Please check back for updates.

Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.

Officials downplay risk of Iranian drone attacks off California after FBI memo, but Newsom says state is “prepared”

March 11, 2026 / 7:39 PM EDT / CBS News

An FBI memo warning that Iran may try to launch drones at California in a seaborne “surprise attack” raised concern Wednesday — but law enforcement officials and homeland security experts have cautioned that it may not point to an immediate threat.

Multiple U.S. and California law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CBS News there is no known, specific threat underpinning the memo, which was issued a week ago and distributed to local law enforcement by the FBI’s Los Angeles office.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on X: “While we are not aware of any imminent threats at this time, we remain prepared for any emergency in our state.”

The memo, which was obtained by CBS News on Wednesday, stems from an apparent tip that surfaced prior to the Iranian conflict.

It said the FBI received “unverified” information that early last month, Iran “allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran.”

The memo added that the FBI had no additional information on the potential “timing, method, target, or perpetrators.”

The warning was issued several days into the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, prompting concerns that Iran could seek to retaliate on American soil. Some homeland security experts have pointed to the risk of cyberattacks and to Iran’s alleged history of murder-for-hire plots against dissidents based in the U.S. and prominent American officials.

Samantha Vinograd, a CBS News contributor and former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat protection, noted that the “Iranian regime has a vast and diverse arsenal of drones that it has deployed throughout the Middle East.”

Iran’s retaliatory strikes on U.S. military bases in the Middle East in recent weeks have included drone attacks. The Iranian military is known for its Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drones.

Vinograd also said the U.S. government has sought to prevent malicious drone activity by drug cartels.

Warning is “unverified” and “not actionable,” officials say

A California-based federal law enforcement official told CBS News the warning that was distributed last week about Iranian drones “is not actionable.”

“This is unverified,” another federal law enforcement official told CBS News. “There has been no information given on the timing, source, method or target of any such attack… since then, we have seen no further indications of this.”

Another California law enforcement official said: “All this means is we got this information and we want to get it out to law enforcement executives to make sure they’re up to speed on it. … There is absolutely nothing more to it.”

A law enforcement source familiar with the matter told CBS News that the FBI regularly shares with local law enforcement any intelligence that is gathered. The information suggesting that Iran may be interested in launching drone attacks in California was a component among the information shared last week.

But the source said there is no known specific threat.

The FBI and the White House did not comment to CBS News on the memo.

Vinograd said: “We have no indication that the FBI was sharing information on an imminent threat.”

“It is standard operating procedure — and prudent — for the FBI to share information with its partners to ensure partners are aware of the broader threat landscape,” she said. “Context on credibility and imminence is helpful as a part of these information sharing mechanisms.”

Jeff Harp, a former FBI special agent, said in an interview with CBS News that “there is a directive to over-communicate with all the different agencies out there” about potential threats.

“If they have any inkling that there is information out there, they’re going to broadcast it,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be 100% accurate. But what they want to get out there is at least a warning to make sure that there is some preparation and notice that goes out.”

Officials in California have said they are vigilant but aren’t aware of any immediate threats.

In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department said: “At this time, there are no known or specific threats to Los Angeles.” It added that it “continues to monitor global events and any potential related threats that could impact Los Angeles.”

Newsom’s office told CBS News the memo was “one of numerous security updates the state receives from federal partners daily and disseminates to local law enforcement and emergency responders.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/no-known-specific-threat-underpinning-fbi-alert-iran-targeting-california-officials/

Joe Rogan keeps highlighting Trump’s biggest liabilities

Analysis by Aaron Blake
1 hr 17 min ago
PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2026, 6:34 PM ET

Joe Rogan looks on during UFC 316 at the Prudential Center on June 7 in Newark.

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If there’s one figure who epitomized President Donald Trump’s ability to cobble together a winning coalition in 2024, it might have been Joe Rogan — the influential podcaster who made big news by endorsing Trump on the eve of the election after interviewing him.

(On the flipside, much ink has been spilled about the Kamala Harris campaign not booking a date with Rogan’s podcast and the detrimental effect that might have had on her bid to become president.)

Sixteen months later, Rogan epitomizes Trump’s problems in holding that coalition together.

Rogan has broken with Trump on several major issues since mid-2025. And polling shows the issues he’s picked happen to be some of Trump’s biggest political liabilities – including the war with Iran, the Jeffrey Epstein files and immigration enforcement.

Iran

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The big, new one is the war with Iran. Rogan said Tuesday that Trump’s ongoing assault on the country broke his promises to his voters.

“But it just seems so insane based on what he ran on,” Rogan said. “I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right? He ran on no more wars and these stupid senseless wars, and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it.”

Rogan had also been skeptical of Trump’s plans to target Venezuela before the ouster of Nicolas Maduro back in January. But he said that operation was at least “clean.” The military engagement to bring in Maduro lasted only a few hours, as opposed to the war with Iran, which is nearly two weeks old with no clear end in sight.

“It just doesn’t make any sense to me – unless we’re acting on someone else’s interests, like particularly Israel’s interests,” Rogan added. “It just didn’t make any sense to me.”

Nearly every poll shows the war with Iran is unpopular, with a majority opposing it and independents opposing it around 2-to-1. In fact, it might be the most unpopular new military conflict in a very long time.

Joe Rogan stands for a benediction after President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda.

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Epstein

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Rogan has for months expressed incredulity about the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files.

Similar to Iran, he’s cast it as a betrayal of Trump’s supporters, even suggesting that their belief Trump would make Epstein materials public if he won the election was a part of why they backed him.

“There’s a lot of stuff about, you know, when we thought Trump was going to come in and a lot of things are going to be resolved. We’re going to drain the swamp. We’re going to figure everything out,” Rogan said in July. “And when you have this one hardcore line in the sand that everybody’s been talking about forever, and then they’re trying to gaslight you on that?”

Last month, he called the FBI’s claim that there is no evidence Epstein had clients “the gaslightiest gaslighting sh*t I’ve ever heard in my life.”

Two days later, on February 12, he took aim at the Justice Department’s strange and inconsistent redactions practices.

“Like, what is this? This is not good. None of this is good for this administration,” Rogan said. “It looks f**king terrible. It looks terrible.”

Rogan criticized Trump in particular for referring to the matter as a “hoax,” and even entertained the idea that Trump knew what Epstein had been doing.

“It looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real, this is all a hoax. This is not a hoax,” Rogan added. “Like, did you not know? Maybe he didn’t know, if you want to be charitable. But this is definitely not a hoax.”

A January CNN poll found just 6% of Americans said they were satisfied with what the federal government had released of the Epstein files to that point.

A more recent Reuters-Ipsos poll from last month showed 65% of Americans said the federal government was “probably” or “definitely” hiding information about Epstein’s death, which was ruled a suicide, and 75% said it was “probably” or “definitely” hiding information about his supposed clients.

Immigration

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Rogan has also amassed a growing volume of comments critical of Trump’s immigration crackdown.

It really kicked off in April, when he called the Trump administration’s sending undocumented migrants to a brutal El Salvador prison “horrific.”

By July, he called the administration’s targeting of immigrants without criminal records “insane.”

“Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers, just construction workers showing up in construction sites and raiding them,” Rogan said. “Gardeners. Like, really?”

Later that month, Rogan decried how US citizens were getting caught up in the raids, and how Trump was trying to deport pro-Palestinian activists with legal status.

“A bunch of people that are totally innocent are going to get caught up. They already have been,” Rogan said. “You know, they have been.”

In mid-October, he said people were right to be concerned about out-of-control border-crossings in recent years. But he added that, “The military in the street, I think, is a dangerous precedent.”

He also criticized the administration for “ripping parents out of their communities,” adding: “I did not ever anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basis.”

“I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals,” he said.

Rogan went on to criticize the administration for the killings of both Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January.

“It just seemed all kinds of wrong to me,” he said of Good’s death, adding that it “just looked horrific to me.”

And he even invoked the Gestapo, the secret police in Nazi Germany.

“And then I can also see the point of view of the people who say, ‘Yeah, but you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be US citizens,’” he said. “They just don’t have their papers on them. Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”

Trump’s approval numbers on immigration have gone from about 10 points positive a year ago to about 10 points negative today – in large part because the American people also see his administration’s enforcement operations going too far.

The killings of Good and Pretti, in particular, have resulted in the administration signaling a change of course in an election year.

Tariffs

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This has been one of Trump’s most unpopular issues for a long time. And while Rogan hasn’t spoken about it as much or as forcefully, he has called Trump’s strategy into question.

When Trump launched his tariffs against Canada a year ago, Rogan called the move “stupid.”

“We got to become friends with Canada again. This is so ridiculous,” Rogan said. “I can’t believe there is anti-American, anti-Canadian sentiment going on. It’s the dumbest f**king feud.”

He added the next month: “I’m scared of this tariff stuff because it’s radical change.”

Uncharacteristically, Trump hasn’t hit back at Rogan.

Asked about Rogan’s criticisms last month by NBC News, Trump said they had spoken recently.

“I think he’s a great guy, and I think he likes me, too,” Trump said.

He added: “And, you know, liking me isn’t important. What happens is that — I think we do a phenomenal job, but I don’t think we’re good at public relations.”

Bipartisan housing push advances, but Trump-backed investor ban faces resistance

Industry groups warn Trump-backed provision could shut down build-to-rent development and reduce housing supply

By Alex Miller
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The Senate moved closer Wednesday to advancing a sweeping housing package aimed at boosting affordability, but a Trump-backed provision banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes is emerging as a flashpoint.

Lawmakers cleared another procedural hurdle for the bill on Wednesday, setting up a likely final vote before they leave Washington on Thursday.

The Housing for the 21st Century Act passed the House last month in a 390-9 bipartisan vote. The legislation includes a wide-ranging slate of measures designed to increase the supply of affordable housing.

[HOUSE PASSES BIPARTISAN HOUSING BILL AS TRUMP ZEROES IN ON AFFORDABILITY CRISIS]

President Donald Trump speaks about the military strikes against Iran, at a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida.(Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., its top Democrat, teamed up to advance and modify the bill in the Senate.

“When President Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren and Senate Republicans can all come to the same place on a housing bill, it shows that if you put partisan politics aside and focus on the issues impacting the American people, you can get results,” Scott told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

In its original form, the legislation was primarily intended to help first-time homebuyers and lower-income Americans enter the housing market or gain access to more affordable housing options.

[BIPARTISAN PLAN AIMS TO MAKE THE AMERICAN DREAM AFFORDABLE AGAIN FOR MILLIONS OF FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS]

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives for a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, February 27, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

But the initial bill lacked a key policy Trump wanted: a ban on institutional investors, such as hedge funds or large corporations, buying single-family homes. Trump earlier this year signed an executive order banning the practice and urged Congress to codify it during his State of the Union address.

“I’m asking Congress to make that ban permanent because homes for people — really, that’s what we want,” Trump said. “We want homes for people, not for corporations.”

Scott and Warren added that provision to the bill. If passed, the package would also incorporate several policies from the ROAD to Housing Act, a separate Senate housing proposal that previously stalled.

The provision would prohibit large-scale investors from purchasing single-family homes and would require companies that exceed a certain ownership threshold to divest within seven years.

[PRO-TRUMP GROUP UNLEASHES BLUEPRINT FOR CRUCIAL HOUSING INITIATIVE FEATURING TOP MAGA INFLUENCER]

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, warned that they was a “problem” with the Senate’s bipartisan housing package.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

But the institutional investor ban is drawing concerns from some Senate Democrats and industry stakeholders, who argue it could eliminate build-to-rent housing units.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said on the Senate floor that “there is a problem” with the bill. He argued the ban on corporations and hedge funds buying single-family homes was written in a way that would force “anybody who owns and rents out more than 350 units, single family or duplexes” to sell after a seven-year period.

“There’s literally no reason for this,” Schatz said. “And the problem is that it was written in such a way that it was trying to capture the hedge fund problem, but they wrote it wrong.”

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“And so the definition of institutional investor says, essentially, anyone who owns and operates more than 350 units to rent — that’s bananas,” he continued.

Several members of the housing and rental industry wrote in a letter to Scott and Warren that the seven-year clause would “effectively shut down build-to-rent development, leading to less supply and fewer options for renters.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

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Trump leaned toward endorsing Cornyn. Then the leaks started — and Paxton made a ‘genius move’

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President Donald Trump was gravitating toward endorsing Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn last week. But he and some top advisers grew frustrated after his intentions leaked to the press, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and the plan stalled.

Then Cornyn’s opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, announced on Friday that if the Senate passed the president’s voting restrictions bill — something Trump has grown particularly fixated on in recent weeks — he would [consider dropping out of the runoff race]. Paxton specified the GOP should lift the filibuster to do so, an idea many Republican senators oppose.

White House officials viewed the ploy as a “genius move,” as one Trump official described it, and it kept Paxton in the mix, at least temporarily. Now, Trump has latched onto the idea of tying his endorsement to the passage of his high-priority “SAVE America Act” — which, among other things, would impose new voter ID requirements.

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That’s a significant headache for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who sees a Cornyn primary win as an important pillar of keeping the GOP’s Senate majority, and for the larger party, which has already seen around $100 million sunk into a bruising primary campaign before the contentious, 12-week runoff has even started.

And while Trump has teased on social media that he’s endorsing in the runoff “soon,” and that he wants the other candidate to drop out once he does so, White House officials maintain that the president is not in a rush. Trump held out on an endorsement for the entire primary campaign, despite intense pressure campaigns from the Cornyn and Paxton camps as well as Senate GOP leaders.

[Cornyn narrowly edged out Paxton in the primary race] last week, but neither got the requisite 50% of votes to avoid a runoff. The deadline to withdraw from the two-man race is March 18 at 5 p.m. CT.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, and Sen. John Cornyn at their respective primary election night watch events on March 3, 2026.

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Now, egged on by Paxton’s ultimatum, Trump has found dangling a potential Cornyn endorsement to be a useful motivator for Senate GOP leaders, who have been unwilling so far to eliminate the required 60-vote threshold to advance the legislation. Since Democrats won’t back the bill, the only way it would clear the Senate is if Republicans change filibuster rules. The legislation has already passed the House.

For months, Thune and others have pushed Trump to endorse Cornyn, hoping to prevent a difficult Texas general election from siphoning away resources they want to use for other crucial Senate races. Paxton has a lot of baggage, including a since-settled securities fraud investigation, an impeachment by the state House and allegations of infidelity.

The White House and Thune’s office declined to comment. Politico first reported that [Trump wanted to use his endorsement] to pressure senators on the voting bill.

Cornyn seems willing to capitulate, at least. In an [op-ed in the New York Post] Wednesday, he said his colleagues should adopt “whatever changes … may prove necessary” to pass Trump’s voting restrictions bill — despite past comments opposing a change to filibuster rules.

“The survival instinct is a powerful one,” a GOP source who supports Cornyn told CNN, referring to the op-ed.

The Texas senator insisted Wednesday that his thinking had changed due to “the unprecedented obstruction by Democrats,” not to get Trump’s endorsement.

“I don’t know whether the president has any intention or not of making any endorsement. I would obviously welcome it. But the timeline, if or when it happens, is entirely up to him,” Cornyn said.

There’s no sign yet that Cornyn’s op-ed has moved Trump, according to the sources familiar with the matter, who is still dead set on seeing the “SAVE America Act” pass. Meanwhile, the president has grown particularly frustrated with Thune, the sources said, who has been publicly resisting Trump’s calls for Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune talks with reporters at the US Capitol on March 11, 2026.

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The dynamic has put Trump and Thune, who have grown close throughout the president’s second term in office and speak several times a week, at odds on an issue Trump views as crucial to a GOP win in the midterm elections. In addition to new voter ID requirements, Trump also wants the bill to include restrictions on mail-in voting and a ban on transgender identity surgeries for minors.

“The president is hellbent on passing the ‘SAVE America Act,’” one senior White House official told CNN. “He expects his allies in Congress to get the job done.”

Some Trump advisers view Thune’s recent comments — he has repeatedly insisted that getting rid of the filibuster is an impossible task, though he plans to put Trump’s voting bill up for a vote next week — as giving many members of his conference an out to do nothing, one source familiar with the talks said.

“Sen. Cornyn is one of 53 Republican senators and the opposition to nuking the filibuster runs very, very deep in our conference, as you know,” Thune told reporters Wednesday morning.

Others are also quick to defend Thune, arguing his position represents a [widely shared view among the Senate GOP].

“There is no path to success with a 60-vote threshold. There is no path to nuking the filibuster. So why don’t we spend our time more productively on things we can get done?” Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said.

Trump, addressing Thune’s reticence to gutting the filibuster on Wednesday, told reporters the South Dakota senator has “got to be a leader. He’s a leader, he’s got to get them.”

CNN’s Dana Bash and Arlette Saenz contributed to this report.

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