Trump Defunds Blue States, Rubio Hunts Communists, and Trump Bombs at the WHCD

The Energy Department admitted in court this week that it canceled 284 clean energy grants — $7.5 billion worth — based solely on whether the state voted for Kamala Harris. Not cost. Not performance. Just the election result. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio's State Department released a 100-page report naming DSA, CodePink, Hasan Piker, and Ilhan Omar as instruments of Cuban influence, and Troy Jackson won the Maine Democratic Senate nomination 566 to 5. Also this week: Zohran Mamdani asks the federal government to arrest Netanyahu, Trump bombs at the Correspondents' Dinner, measles hits a 35-year high, a judge freezes the $110 billion Paramount–Warner Bros. merger, and the Pentagon quietly subtracts four dead service members from the Iran war to reset the War Powers clock. Plus Rahm Emanuel and Gretchen Whitmer both pick a side in the Democratic Party's fight over its own future — and a question nobody asks centrist Democrats.   Get your MillRat Pack here!!