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axios.com | Alex Isenstadt
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/AxiosPresident Trump and billionaire sports team owners are locked in an under-the-radar fight over Trump's push to significantly limit a tax break the owners have enjoyed for two decades.
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axios.com | Alex Isenstadt
Sen. John Cornyn (left) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Photos: Via Getty ImagesA new private GOP poll is showing Republicans facing a growing problem in the Texas Senate race, the third such survey in just a month. Why it matters: Republicans haven't lost a statewide race in Texas in more than three decades, but party officials concede they may need to spend millions to keep the seat this year.
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axios.com | Brittany Gibson |Alex Isenstadt |David Lindsey
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/AxiosFor months, Trump administration officials have been adamant about targeting all the millions of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, regardless of their work or taxpaying status. But now Trump is making a huge exception: those working at hotels, farms, meatpacking plants and restaurants.
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flipboard.com | Brittany Gibson |Alex Isenstadt |David Lindsey
9 hours agoThe Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond CompanyEight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears among some Angolans that they will be squeezed out by the new arrivals.
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2 weeks ago | 
axios.com | Alex Isenstadt |Marc Caputo
Elon Musk and President Trump in the Oval Office on May 30. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesElon Musk's early morning tweet Wednesday saying he regretted going "too far" in criticizing President Trump came after a private phone call with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Vice President Vance last Friday, sources tell Axios.
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Image credit Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg, Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register, Brendan Smialowski/AFP, John Moore via Getty ImagesTroops deployed to Los Angeles. Paratroopers dropping from the sky before a partisan speech to troops at Fort Bragg. A military parade in D.C. that will coincide with the president's birthday. Call it President Trump's Strongman Week.
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flipboard.com | Marc Caputo |Alex Isenstadt
NowTrump’s China ‘truce’ is nothing of the sortCNN — At long last, the United States has reached a trade agreement with China.
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axios.com | Alex Isenstadt
A trailer towing an Army tank passes by the Washington Monument during a Memorial Day parade last month. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesArmy officials are preparing to display rocket launchers and missiles along with more than a hundred military aircraft and vehicles next weekend at the D.C. parade celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary, Axios has learned.
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axios.com | Alex Isenstadt
Illustration: Aïda Amer/AxiosRepublicans are increasingly worried that budget cuts by Elon Musk's DOGE could cost them dearly in November's vote for Virginia governor — an early electoral test of President Trump's policies. Why it matters: Virginia has one of the highest percentages of federal employees in the country — of the state's workforce by some estimates — and Republicans' internal polls are starting to show the damage from tens of thousands of federal layoffs.
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axios.com | Alex Isenstadt
Susie Wiles, second from left, is acknowledged by Chris LaCivita during election night events on Nov. 6, 2024. Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSenior Trump political adviser Chris LaCivita is joining a super PAC bolstering Florida Sen. Ashley Moody in next year's midterm election, Axios has learned. Why it matters: LaCivita gives Moody, who has filled the seat formerly held by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the imprimatur of support from President Trump's orbit.
