• Senator Booker sets ersatz “filibuster” record: New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker’s record-breaking 25-hour, five-minute speech on the Senate floor that began at 7 p.m. Monday and ended Tuesday night was not the longest-ever Senate filibuster. That’s because a filibuster is defined as “obstructing legislative action, especially by prolonged speechmaking.” So while this was a long speech, it didn’t obstruct any legislative action. In fact, Booker wasn’t even protesting a Senate action; he just railed against the Trump administration. Ironically, the executive branch could operate just fine while one-half of the legislative branch was held thrall to Booker’s sleep-deprived raving. The only vote delayed by his theatrics was a Democrat-led bill to undo Trump’s tariffs on Canada. Booker doesn’t seem to have accomplished anything except win a few moments in the limelight, which, of course, was the point.

• House proxy vote fight: Nine House Republicans joined with Democrats to vote against a measure that would have advanced a package of bills that included the No Rogue Rulings Act and the SAVE Act. At issue was a provision that blocked Rep. Anna Luna’s petition to allow proxy voting for members with newborns. Last week, the Freedom Caucus objected to a rules vote if it allowed Luna’s bill to come to the floor for a vote. Thus, using backroom dealing, Republican leadership included language in the procedural package that effectively killed Luna’s petition. Catching wind of the change, Luna rallied eight other Republicans to join with Democrats to derail the measure. While the vast majority of House Republicans oppose proxy voting, the manner in which Speaker Mike Johnson attempted to circumvent a vote caused consternation.

• Border Patrol registers new record low: Across America’s 1,950-mile southern border, U.S. Border Patrol detected just 7,181 illegal crossers in March. That’s an average of 230 a day and fewer than one person per eight miles of border, constituting a new record low. “I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984, which was 41 years ago. I cannot recall a single month since then that the numbers have been that low,” observed Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s border czar. To put even more perspective on this, under the Biden administration, Border Patrol was seeing more illegal border crossings in a single day than in an entire month under Trump. Clearly, the message has gotten out that those who illegally enter the U.S. will be caught and deported. Joe Biden lied that he needed legislation. As Trump noted, “All we really needed was a new president.”

• RFK begins mass layoffs at HHS: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is cleaning up the Department of Health and Human Services, starting with a mass layoff. “The FDA as we’ve known it is finished,” one former Biden FDA commissioner said. If you’re a bureaucrat advocating big government, Tuesday was yet another apocalyptic day. A partial list of Kennedy’s job cuts: 3,500 at FDA, 2,400 at CDC, 1,200 at NIH, and 300 at CMS. Critics argue that this will set back American progress on the opioid epidemic and throw the mental healthcare system into disarray. After the last few years, however, one wonders how much worse the management of those issues could get.

• Issa exposes Crockett’s judicial hypocrisy: During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett, viewed by some as a rising star, blasted Republicans for filing articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg over his despotic activism. Crockett accused Republicans of endangering the Rule of Law, claiming, “What it means to have law and order in this country is that you follow the order and you go through the appeals process even if you dislike what the judge did.” Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) was quick to set the record straight after noting that Crockett herself had cosponsored articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. He said, “It does seem interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous!”

• Court tosses charges against Mayor Adams: New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to the accusations of bribery and fraud brought against him by Joe Biden’s Justice Department last September. He went further, calling the indictment a witch hunt inspired by his stance that illegal immigration was out of control. If so, the change in administration ended that witch hunt with the Trump DOJ ordering prosecutors to drop the case. Today, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Dale Ho ruled in favor of Adams by tossing the case. Adams has three months to campaign for reelection, but he’s been absent from the campaign trail so far and trails former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the polls.

• Bondi seeks death penalty for United Healthcare assassin: Luigi Mangione is the man accused of assassinating United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. Video of the event shows the assassin waiting for Thompson’s appearance, shooting him in the back, clearing a jam, and then firing at the prone Thompson as he attempted to crawl away. For that kind of calm, premeditated assassination, Attorney General Pam Bondi wants the death sentence as she seeks to fulfill “President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.” Opponents of the death penalty will surely oppose this decision; the rest of us are left wondering: If this doesn’t deserve the death penalty, what does?

• CA and CO go pro-trans: Two bills that aimed to preserve female spaces in schools and ban males from competing in girls’ and women’s sports were voted down by California’s Democrat-controlled legislature on Tuesday. The bills failed to proceed out of committee by a 2-7 party-line vote. Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli responded, “Assembly Democrats are so committed to allowing biological boys into girls’ sports and locker rooms rather than protecting our daughters.” Meanwhile, Democrats in Colorado are pushing legislation that would make it a crime to “misgender” or “deadname” a person who identifies as “transgender” in public. Talk about a massive violation of the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech. Centennial State Democrats want to compel belief in a blatant lie by installing an anti-trans blasphemy law.

Headlines

• Trump finalizing tariff plans as U.S. trade partners brace for impact (CNBC)

• Tesla reports 13% delivery drop from a year ago (CNBC)

• Tesla owners not connected to DOGE or Musk are acceptable victims, according to 31% of Democrats (Daily Signal)

• FBI imposed “gag order” on analyst who told Twitter Hunter Biden laptop story was real (National Review)

• Fourth U.S. soldier found deceased in Lithuania after vehicle sank in swamp (Fox News)

• Humor: JD Vance sweetens deal by offering Statue of Liberty to Greenland (Babylon Bee)

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