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Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) announced on Tuesday that she's launching a primary challenge to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), just days after President Trump preemptively backed her for a Senate run in Louisiana. "I have fought alongside President Trump to put America first, standing up for our parents, securing our borders, supporting law enforcement, rooting out waste, fraud and abuse that drives up inflation and fighting to fix an education system too focused on woke ideology instead of teaching," she said in a two-minute launch ad. "A state as conservative as ours, we shouldn't have to wonder how our senator will vote when the pressure's on," she continued, not mentioning Cassidy by name. "Louisiana deserves conservative champions, leaders who will not flinch." Cassidy wrote on X that Letlow, who's represented Louisiana's 5th Congressional District since 2021, had called him earlier on Tuesday to let him know of her candidacy.

Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana said on Tuesday that she was officially running for Senate, challenging Senator Bill Cassidy in a Republican primary contest days after President Trump said he would back her. "RUN JULIA RUN!!!" Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday night. Ms. Letlow made her announcement at a breakfast of business leaders on Tuesday, according to a report in the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, and she later posted a video online.

Three days after President Donald Trump exploded a political bomb in Louisiana's Senate race by endorsing Republican Rep. Julia Letlow over incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, Letlow announced her campaign. Letlow declared her candidacy at a closed-door business breakfast in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Tuesday morning, according to Republican sources. And in a social media post and video that shortly followed, Letlow emphasized that "Louisiana deserves a conservative Senator who will not waver. I am honored to have President Trump's endorsement and trust."

Greenland is of obvious strategic importance in the event of another world war (and to prevent one), or even in the calculus of modern international relations. Americans have known this at least since the end of World War II, which is why President Harry S. Truman's administration made an offer to buy the island in 1946 for $100 million in gold. But it's equally obvious that the NATO alliance is even more important than Greenland. The United States needs the strength and unity of a free Europe to withstand the militaries and expansionist adventurism of the enemies of freedom.

Apparently, the Constitution now comes with a permission slip. According to Minnesota's political class—and the federal judge they are hoping will indulge them—federal immigration law is binding except when local officials find it inconvenient, uncomfortable, or politically risky. In those moments, the thinking goes, the state can simply ask a court to restrain Immigration and Customs Enforcement and call it "constitutional balance." Thankfully, the Trump administration is having none of it. In a sharply worded filing this week, the Department of Justice warned that any judicial order limiting ICE operations inside Minnesota would amount to an "unprecedented overreach." That phrasing is not hyperbole. It is the legal equivalent of asking whether we have collectively forgotten how the country works.

President Donald Trump has said over the last year that money brought in from his increased tariffs would pay for at least half a dozen initiatives — from reducing the national debt to providing dividend checks to "moderate income patriots" — but the revenue raised so far can't deliver all of them. In fact, that revenue would be able to cover only a fraction of what the president has proposed. Trump recently highlighted three initiatives that he claimed would be "easily" paid for because of the tariff revenue: an increase in the defense budget, dividend checks for Americans and paying down the debt. It would take several years for the estimated revenue from Trump's tariffs to cover the cost of those first two proposals, if the tariff rates remain in effect. "Tariffs fall very short of funding all the priorities the President has suggested they can pay for," Erica York, vice president of federal tax policy at the Tax Foundation, told us.