The Brutalist Report

Axios

• Trump budgets $1 trillion for Pentagon [16m]
• READ: Trump's fiscal year 2026 budget request to Congress [17m]
• Japanese finance minister says selling U.S. bonds a "card on the table" [1h]
• Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status — again [2h]
• Trump's latest name change: Veterans Day to "Victory Day for World War I" [2h]
• Americans will pay $11 billion more than they need to on mortgages this year [4h]
• CFPB's fight to survive happens to be its kind of fight [4h]
• Behind the scenes: How Waltz got the boot [5h]
• Inside the Trump family's 100 days of presidential profit [5h]
• Democrats launch pressure campaign to sink Trump's budget bill [6h]
• Trump signs order to ax federal funding for NPR and PBS [9h]
• Justice Jackson denounces "relentless attacks" on judges after Trump comments [10h]
• U.S. press freedom falls to historical low [11h]
• Trump will call for deep domestic cuts in FY 2026 budget [11h]
• RFK Jr. calls for CDC plan for alternative measles treatments [13h]
• Scoop: Pro-Paxton group courts Trump with anti-Cornyn ad [14h]
• Trump relights Signalgate with Michael Waltz nomination [14h]
• Luigi Mangione's attorneys seek dismissal of N.Y. state charges [15h]
• "This is a self-own": House Democrat's rogue Trump impeachment push sets off internal furor [18h]
• RFK Jr.'s latest vaccine plan threatens future of shots, experts say [18h]
• Replacing Elon Musk as Tesla CEO would pose a huge challenge [18h]
• Trump's next national security adviser will be his sixth [19h]
• McRecession 2025: Consumers are cutting back at McDonald's, Starbucks [19h]
• Trump nominates ousted adviser Waltz as UN ambassador [20h]
• Trump threatens massive new China sanctions over Iranian oil [20h]
• Scoop: Trump releasing 2026 budget tomorrow [20h]
• Trump-appointed judge rules using Alien Enemies Act for deportations is unlawful [21h]
• Why Trump's White House turned on Mike Waltz [21h]
• Mike Waltz on his way out as Trump's national security adviser [22h]
• Manufacturing sector shrinks again as tariffs slam industry [22h]
• When the president does, and doesn't, own the economy [23h]