Jet-Fueled Grift, Tariff Surrender, and Budgetary Bloodletting

Trump gets a Qatari palace in the sky, China gets what it wants, and America’s poor get the heat shut off.

Good morning! While millions of Americans brace for blackouts thanks to Trump's proposed elimination of federal heating aid, the former reality-TV-star-turned-president is preparing to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet from the nation of Qatar, a country he once accused of “funding terrorism at a very high level.” Now, they’re funding him. And in true au…