Trump Admin Plans Overhaul of Endangered Species Act
Philip Wegmann, Real Clear Politics
The Trump administration intends to overhaul the Endangered Species Act by changing what it means to harm an endangered or threatened species as part of the larger White House campaign to spur economic growth through deregulation. The president has long loathed red tape of the green variety, and one White House official predicted that overhauling the act “will have a seismic, real-world effect on the ability to build.” “Environmental is the biggest tool for stopping growth,” Trump said during an interview with Joe Rogan last October.

Dem Lawmakers Planning Trip to El Salvador in Effort to Bring Back Illegal Alien Gang Member
Debra Heine, American Greatness
Senator Chris Van Hollen said that if Garcia was not in the United States by “midweek,” he would “travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release.” Several Democrat lawmakers have expressed interest in joining him on the trip. “We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador,” Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said on X, tagging Van Hollen. “Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same.”

Europe fear: China will do to us what it did to the United States
Byron York, Washington Examiner
China cheats on trade, and can flood a country with cheap goods, undercutting the industries in that country. What had been a vital local economy becomes one saturated with Chinese goods. Could there be a more compelling reason for the measures that Trump is taking against China? Why shouldn’t the U.S. fight back against China’s “job-killing” strategy that has “battered” American workers? Yes, of course Europe needs to protect itself against China too. Maybe they will realize that it would be better to trade more with the U.S.

The People Who Came for Your Plastic Bag and Straw Now Want Your Dog
Daniel J. Flynn, The American Spectator
Dogs rank somewhere between yoga pants and the beach in popularity. So, this ideological crusade against them looks like a lost cause. This dog won’t hunt. Or will he? Consider that the people long pushing to mandate electric vehicles (EVs) suddenly just started to firebomb the most popular EVs in the United States. With God ideology, anything is possible. And when ideologues criticize anything, how long before they advocate a ban on it? Count on it somewhere, someday in the future. Yes, some people cheer when Old Yeller dies.

Conservative School Districts Beg Trump to Save Them from Blue State’s Gender Identity Mandates
Just the News (Greg Piper), The Star News Network
Deep-blue states and school districts are facing scrutiny from the feds for using gender identity to determine access to intimate spaces, sex-segregated sports and parental rights, with billions in education funding on the line. School districts in eastern Washington state, a world away from the boundary-pushing social liberalism of the state capital, each asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon to stop the state and Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction from forcing them to violate President Trump’s executive orders.

Washington’s latest tax assault on private equity and venture capital industries
Stephen Moore, Washington Times
Private equity and venture capital track records in picking future gazelles and helping them sprint faster are almost a uniquely American success story. Now, thanks to the industry’s winning track record in saving companies and jobs, Washington thinks they are doing too well and wants to raise the tax rate on the industry by nearly 50%. They want to slay the goose that has been laying golden eggs for decades. Some Democrats want to charge the investors personal income tax rates of up to 39.6% instead of the 24% capital gains tax.
 

Boasberg's Coincidental Contempt Timeline
Julie Kelly, Substack
The Trump administration insists Boasberg’s verbal orders are not controlling; case law and common practice appear to support the administration’s argument. But Boasberg, of course, is the sketchy one. Since setting the contempt trap on March 15, he has publicly advanced the notion the administration did not obey his orders, going so far as to recently demand the names of Trump officials who may have listened to the March 15 hearing and suggest he would seek depositions to determine who knew what when. Talk about contempt.