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President Donald Trump is setting his sights on Washington, D.C.’s public golf courses, with a particular focus on East Potomac Golf Links – situated on a prime stretch of riverfront real estate – according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal report.

The push grew out of an unusual logistical problem: what to do with the dirt generated by Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing. While aides floated dumping it on the Ellipse, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum pitched a more strategic idea – hauling the soil to East Potomac, the public golf complex Trump hoped to renovate, which sits on low ground and would need fill to rise above the Potomac River floodplain for any major redesign.

Top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill came together this week to praise a prominent law firm and government watchdog group – even as the firm remains locked in a bitter legal fight with President Donald Trump’s administration.

According to a new report in Politico, lawmakers from both parties attended a bipartisan event celebrating the release of “When Congress Comes Calling,” a newly updated handbook on congressional investigations published by Jenner & Block in partnership with the Project on Government Oversight.

President Donald Trump has already discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning key aides and officials who could face criminal investigations under a future Democratic administration, according to a new report in Zeteo.

Sources with knowledge of the discussions say the conversations have been sporadic and preliminary, and have included Trump, his senior aides, federal appointees, and Republicans close to the White House. Any sweeping preemptive pardon, the sources told Zeteo, would likely occur shortly before the inauguration of a Democratic president-elect, though it is unclear how long the potential presidential list might run.

Chaos is mounting inside the Department of Homeland Security as rising tensions over Trump’s deportation agenda have sparked internal finger-pointing and threatened to derail top leadership, with officials even fearing their emails and messages are being monitored, according to a new NBC News exclusive.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski, have reportedly pinned blame on subordinates for falling short of White House deportation goals. Acting ICE Director Todd Lloyd and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott have found themselves at the center of criticism, with Scott expressing concern to colleagues that Lewandowski may be monitoring his emails.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun drew the ire of the Wall Street Journal on Friday after threatening political payback against Republicans who torpedoed a Trump-backed plan to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.

“Political principle has been out of fashion, but it had a good day in Indiana on Thursday,” the Journal wrote in an editorial that praised Hoosier Republicans who rejected the proposal before criticizing Braun.

President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter in the Oval Office on Friday after being pressed on what millions of Americans should expect as enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire – a change projected to raise premiums for roughly 24 million people.

During an event honoring the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team – the famed “Miracle on Ice” – a reporter asked Trump directly: “What’s your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up?"

President Donald Trump may have just suffered his "most significant blow yet," an analyst wrote Friday.

When Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature rebuffed his redistricting scheme despite intense pressure from MAGA allies, the implications extended well beyond electoral calculations. The 31-19 vote represented a coordinated challenge to the president's grip over his own party and his vision for consolidating power during his second term, The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait argued in his piece.