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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ouster of Gen. Chris Donahue, the commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, has put congressional Republicans at odds. While some are reluctant to comment as they wait for more details on the departure of the respected leader, others are upbraiding Hegseth for turning military leadership upside down.
“Strong leaders are not threatened by accomplished commanders. Weak ones are. His paranoid micromanagement of senior military leaders and promotion lists is pure insecurity dressed up as reform,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) commented on X on Thursday.
President Trump on Friday will address the “Road to the Majority” Faith & Freedom Coalition event in D.C. — returning to the Washington Hilton for the first time since the White House Correspondents’ dinner in April, when a gunman was stopped outside the ballroom.
On Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans are trying to find a path forward for Trump’s SAVE America Act, which does not have enough votes to pass in its current form in the Senate.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Trump at the White House on Thursday to figure out the lower chamber’s approach, particularly as hard-liner Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has said she would oppose procedural votes until the Senate passes the bill, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration.
After his Johnson meeting, Trump told Luna and others to stop “grandstanding” over the legislation.
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) secured a campaign promise as the city’s Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved his two-year rent freeze proposal for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. It caps a big week for the mayor, whose backed candidates won big in primary elections.
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