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Subject: Day 1899: "We can't take care of day care. We’re fighting wars."
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Day 1899: "We can't take care of day care. We’re fighting wars."
Thursday, Apr 2, 2026
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Today in one sentence: Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general; in a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks after starting it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks; the U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages”; Trump said it was "not possible" for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars”; Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who've missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown; and an appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election.
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1/ Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general, abruptly ending a 14-month tenure derailed by Bondi’s mishandling of the Epstein files and failure to win cases against Trump’s perceived political enemies. Trump called Bondi “a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend,” saying “We love Pam.” Bondi had claimed an Epstein “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” but the Justice Department later said the list didn’t exist. The House Oversight Committee, meanwhile, had already subpoenaed Bondi and still expects her to testify. Blanche, a former Trump defense lawyer, said Bondi led the department with “strength and conviction” and promised to keep “doing everything in our power to keep America safe.” (Reuters [7] / Associated Press [8]
26d2d2c3fd41cadff91dd75b) / NPR [9] / Politico [10] / New York Times [11] / NBC News [12] / CNN [13] / Bloomberg [14] / Wall Street Journal [15] / Washington Post [16] / Axios [17]
* The Justice Department said Trump doesn’t have to comply the 1978 Presidential Records Act, claiming that the post-Watergate law requiring presidents to preserve official records and turn them over to the National Archives is unconstitutional. The law clarifies that presidential records belong to the government, not the president. (CBS News [18] / NBC News [19]
* Trump privately asked advisers whether he should replace Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The White House said Trump still has confidence in Gabbard, while Trump said she was “a little bit different” and “softer” than him on Iran, but still “available to serve.” (The Guardian [20] / Reuters [21]
2/ In a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks into it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks to “bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.” He called the war a success, said U.S. forces had delivered “swift, decisive, overwhelming victories,” and claimed “never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks,” even as Iran continued firing missiles and drones across the region. But he offered no clear path to end the war and dismissed the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping route through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, as a problem for others while insisting that it would “open up naturally.” (New York Times [22] / Washington Post [23]
.com/politics/2026/04/01/trump-speech-iran-war/) / Wall Street Journal [24] / CBS News [25] / NPR [26] / ABC News [27] / NBC News [28] / Bloomberg [29] / Semafor [30] / Axios [31] / Politico[32]
* Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forced out Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, ending his term about a year early. The Pentagon said George would retire immediately, but didn’t explain the move. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the Army’s vice chief and Hegseth’s former military aide, is expected to take over in an acting role. George, a career infantry officer nominated by Biden and confirmed in 2023, would normally have remained in the job until 2027. The move came days after Hegseth publicly overruled the Army and blocked the punishment of a helicopter crew that flew by Kid Rock’s house. (Washington Post [33] / Politico [34] / Associated Press [35] / Bloomberg[36]
3/ The U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages.” Trump celebrated the strike and warned that “much more” would follow unless Iran made a deal. The attack expanded the war to infrastructure that Iran claimed was civilian, but U.S. officials, without evidence, described as a military supply route. It’s unclear whether the bridge was open to civilian traffic or used by Iran’s military at the time. (Axios [37] / The Guardian [38] / New York Times [39]
4/ Trump said it was “not possible” for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars” and “we have to take care of one thing: military protection,” adding that the U.S. “can’t take care of day care” and that states “should pay for it too.” Trump suggested states “have to raise their taxes” to cover the costs and that maybe the federal government “could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up” for it. He added that he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought: “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people.” The White House later said Trump was referring to fraud in those programs, despite his earlier promises to protect Medicare and make child care more affordable. (NBC News [40]
trump/trump-says-not-possible-us-pay-medicaid-medicare-daycare-re-fighting-w-rcna266381) / New York Times [41] / Washington Post [42] / New Republic [43] / The Hill [44]
5/ Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who’ve missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown. The move comes as Republican leaders have settled on a two-step plan to first pass a Senate bill to reopen most of DHS, and then later use reconciliation to fund ICE and Border Patrol separately. The House, however, hasn’t acted on the Senate-passed bill as conservatives oppose funding DHS without ICE and Border Patrol. It’s not clear how the administration would pay all DHS workers, though White House guidance suggested it could draw on existing funds, as it did for TSA employees last week. (Associated Press [45] / CBS News [46] / ABC News [47] / Wall Street Journal[48] / New York Times [49] / Reuters [50] / CNBC [51] / Semafor [52]
6/ An appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election. Tina Peters’ conviction still stands and the judges ordered her to be resentenced, saying the trial court improperly considered her protected speech when imposing the sentence. The panel also rejected Trump’s attempt to pardon her, saying a president’s clemency power doesn’t apply to state crimes. Peters will remain in prison for now while the case returns to the trial court where a judge will decide her new sentence. (Colorado Sun [53] / Associated Press [54] / New York Times [55] / Washington Post[56] / NBC News [57]
* * Previously on WTFJHT – Oct. 3, 2024 [58] : Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for tampering with voting machines under her control during the 2020 election.
* * Previously on WTFJHT – Aug. 21, 2025 [59] : Trump demanded that Colorado release Peters from prison.
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Subject: Day 1899: "We can't take care of day care. We’re fighting wars."
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Day 1899: "We can't take care of day care. We’re fighting wars."
Thursday, Apr 2, 2026
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Today in one sentence: Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general; in a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks after starting it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks; the U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages”; Trump said it was "not possible" for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars”; Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who've missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown; and an appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election.
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Today's edition is 1,113 words, a 5½-minute read.
1/ Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general, abruptly ending a 14-month tenure derailed by Bondi’s mishandling of the Epstein files and failure to win cases against Trump’s perceived political enemies. Trump called Bondi “a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend,” saying “We love Pam.” Bondi had claimed an Epstein “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” but the Justice Department later said the list didn’t exist. The House Oversight Committee, meanwhile, had already subpoenaed Bondi and still expects her to testify. Blanche, a former Trump defense lawyer, said Bondi led the department with “strength and conviction” and promised to keep “doing everything in our power to keep America safe.” (Reuters [7] / Associated Press [8]
26d2d2c3fd41cadff91dd75b) / NPR [9] / Politico [10] / New York Times [11] / NBC News [12] / CNN [13] / Bloomberg [14] / Wall Street Journal [15] / Washington Post [16] / Axios [17]
* The Justice Department said Trump doesn’t have to comply the 1978 Presidential Records Act, claiming that the post-Watergate law requiring presidents to preserve official records and turn them over to the National Archives is unconstitutional. The law clarifies that presidential records belong to the government, not the president. (CBS News [18] / NBC News [19]
* Trump privately asked advisers whether he should replace Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The White House said Trump still has confidence in Gabbard, while Trump said she was “a little bit different” and “softer” than him on Iran, but still “available to serve.” (The Guardian [20] / Reuters [21]
2/ In a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks into it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks to “bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.” He called the war a success, said U.S. forces had delivered “swift, decisive, overwhelming victories,” and claimed “never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks,” even as Iran continued firing missiles and drones across the region. But he offered no clear path to end the war and dismissed the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping route through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, as a problem for others while insisting that it would “open up naturally.” (New York Times [22] / Washington Post [23]
.com/politics/2026/04/01/trump-speech-iran-war/) / Wall Street Journal [24] / CBS News [25] / NPR [26] / ABC News [27] / NBC News [28] / Bloomberg [29] / Semafor [30] / Axios [31] / Politico[32]
* Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forced out Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, ending his term about a year early. The Pentagon said George would retire immediately, but didn’t explain the move. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the Army’s vice chief and Hegseth’s former military aide, is expected to take over in an acting role. George, a career infantry officer nominated by Biden and confirmed in 2023, would normally have remained in the job until 2027. The move came days after Hegseth publicly overruled the Army and blocked the punishment of a helicopter crew that flew by Kid Rock’s house. (Washington Post [33] / Politico [34] / Associated Press [35] / Bloomberg[36]
3/ The U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages.” Trump celebrated the strike and warned that “much more” would follow unless Iran made a deal. The attack expanded the war to infrastructure that Iran claimed was civilian, but U.S. officials, without evidence, described as a military supply route. It’s unclear whether the bridge was open to civilian traffic or used by Iran’s military at the time. (Axios [37] / The Guardian [38] / New York Times [39]
4/ Trump said it was “not possible” for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars” and “we have to take care of one thing: military protection,” adding that the U.S. “can’t take care of day care” and that states “should pay for it too.” Trump suggested states “have to raise their taxes” to cover the costs and that maybe the federal government “could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up” for it. He added that he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought: “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people.” The White House later said Trump was referring to fraud in those programs, despite his earlier promises to protect Medicare and make child care more affordable. (NBC News [40]
trump/trump-says-not-possible-us-pay-medicaid-medicare-daycare-re-fighting-w-rcna266381) / New York Times [41] / Washington Post [42] / New Republic [43] / The Hill [44]
5/ Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who’ve missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown. The move comes as Republican leaders have settled on a two-step plan to first pass a Senate bill to reopen most of DHS, and then later use reconciliation to fund ICE and Border Patrol separately. The House, however, hasn’t acted on the Senate-passed bill as conservatives oppose funding DHS without ICE and Border Patrol. It’s not clear how the administration would pay all DHS workers, though White House guidance suggested it could draw on existing funds, as it did for TSA employees last week. (Associated Press [45] / CBS News [46] / ABC News [47] / Wall Street Journal[48] / New York Times [49] / Reuters [50] / CNBC [51] / Semafor [52]
6/ An appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election. Tina Peters’ conviction still stands and the judges ordered her to be resentenced, saying the trial court improperly considered her protected speech when imposing the sentence. The panel also rejected Trump’s attempt to pardon her, saying a president’s clemency power doesn’t apply to state crimes. Peters will remain in prison for now while the case returns to the trial court where a judge will decide her new sentence. (Colorado Sun [53] / Associated Press [54] / New York Times [55] / Washington Post[56] / NBC News [57]
* * Previously on WTFJHT – Oct. 3, 2024 [58] : Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for tampering with voting machines under her control during the 2020 election.
* * Previously on WTFJHT – Aug. 21, 2025 [59] : Trump demanded that Colorado release Peters from prison.
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