Summarizing Trump’s Second Term Moves—Bigly!

July 22, 2025

Day of Trump's Second Term

CNN  —  In the hours after Iran launched a missile attack on a US base in Qatar, President Donald Trump and a group of his top diplomatic and security officials worked furiously behind-the-scenes to try to broker a peace deal to end the conflict between Iran and Israel. While Trump communicated directly with Israeli Prime
CNN  —  Republican senators left a Monday evening meeting pointing to several key outstanding issues that must be addressed in their sweeping domestic policy bill as Congress closes in on the July 4th recess, raising questions about whether the Senate can finish it by the end of the week. GOP leadership has been bullish it’s
CNN  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made clear she is at odds with the president and other Republicans who support an aggressive posture against Iran, acknowledging that there’s a “very big divide” in the party over the issue and that her position opposing foreign wars is becoming “more popular” among the base. “I got elected
CNN  —  Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness” by backing its latest emergency appeal. Sotomayor’s scathing, 19-page dissent came in a case in which the court’s majority backed the administration’s move to deport
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here . CNN  —  Most members of President Donald Trump’s administration have tried to stay on message: Strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities do not signal the beginning of a war, and the US is
CNN  —  The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice. The decision is a significant win for the Trump administration, which had argued that a lower court usurped its authority by ordering the Department
CNN  —  President Donald Trump’s order to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities presents a new test of the Constitution and the extent of presidential powers to conduct war despite a lack of congressional approval. The administration is relying on the president’s authority under Article II of the Constitution, two senior administration officials told CNN, which says
CNN  —  President Donald Trump’s onslaught of Iran’s nuclear plants was the most violent moment of his two terms and America’s 46-year showdown with the Islamic Republic. Flush with the spoils of battle, he already seems to be toying with the idea of regime change. But the reality of whether Trump truly destroyed Iran’s nuclear
CNN  —  President Donald Trump’s MAGA sphere of conservative media and influencers — many of whom had expressed skepticism before his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities — is divided over the president’s dramatic move to strike. Many of its most prominent figures rallied around Trump. But others sharply criticized the decision, said they want
CNN  —  By the time President Donald Trump was milling about his golf club in New Jersey on Friday evening, the planes were about to be in the air. To onlookers at the club, Trump showed little anxiety about his decision to authorize airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities that could have profound ramifications both
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