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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said during a public conference this week that the so-called Trump Accounts established under the GOP’s 2025 budget law represent a viable path toward Social Security privatization—something the Texas lawmaker described as a “dirty little secret.”

During a panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California, Cruz said that “conservatives in America, for 50 years... have been trying to do Social Security personal accounts.” Cruz, who lamented the failure of Bush-era efforts to privatize Social Security, described such personal accounts as vehicles into which the payroll taxes that finance current Social Security benefits could be diverted.

A federal judge in Massachusetts fired a warning shot at a lawsuit filed by far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office against the Democratic Party fundraising platform, ActBlue.

According to Texas-based political reporter Bayliss Wagner, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns "ruled that ActBlue's countersuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton is likely to prevail on the merits, including their allegation that his lawsuit against the Dem fundraising behemoth violates the First Amendment."

Fox Business host Dagen McDowell warned that Americans had "every right to be upset" because President Donald Trump's second term had "gone the wrong way."

During a Friday panel discussion, McDowell agreed with contributor Steve Forbes that Trump was right to pursue fraud within the government. Still, she insisted that alone was not enough to turn the economy around.

President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever, according to a New York Times investigation published Friday.

Trump gave the contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a Virginia-based firm that had never previously held a federal contract. The company's website shows it specializes in waterproofing highway culverts, pipes, roofs and chemical and water storage tanks — with no mention of swimming pools anywhere.

President Donald Trump and his allies have been banking hard on the belief that his tariff policy conveys a "populist" message to American workers and shores up his coalition. But time and time again, he has been proven wrong, conservative writer Dan McLaughlin argued for the National Review in an article published on Friday — and there's a bigger picture he's utterly missing.

Trump's first set of "reciprocal tariffs" was struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year. He responded with a new 10 percent global tariff under a different statute, but that too was voided by the U.S. Court of International Trade this Thursday.

Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has submitted her resignation to Gov. Spencer Cox (R) following allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship, which may have ultimately resulted in a redistricting map that benefited Democrats.

"Today, Gov. Cox received a letter of resignation from Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen," Cox's office said in a statement on Friday. "The resignation is effective immediately. The governor appreciates Justice Hagen's years of service to the state of Utah."

Former TV personality Kari Lake, who has become a fixture in Donald Trump's orbit despite a track record of electoral failure, is actively searching for a new government position after being repeatedly passed over by the president and forced out of her previous role.

According to Vanity Fair, Lake was recently overheard at the aborted White House Correspondents' Dinner talking up her chances of landing an appointment to Trump's Shield of the Americas initiative — the same working group where former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem landed after being unceremoniously fired by the president.

A panel of three federal judges has rejected a lawsuit brought after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) halted ongoing state elections in an effort to gain Republican House seats through redistricting.

In a filing late last month, Democratic House candidate Lindsay Garcia sued Landry and other state officials on behalf of "similarly situated voters and candidates statewide."

President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon that there will be a brief pause in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, effective this weekend.

"I am pleased to announce that there will be a THREE DAY CEASEFIRE (May 9th, 10th, and 11th) in the War between Russia and Ukraine," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II. This Ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity, and also a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each Country. This request was made directly by me, and I very much appreciate its agreement by President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy."