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/ February 10, 2026

The Truth About Interracial Intimacy

In a new memoir, author Dorothy Roberts explores why interracial attraction can’t be disentangled from the larger forces of race, gender, and power that govern our world.

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The acclaimed author can’t ignore what she has spent years studying: the undeniable ways unequal structures shape our preferences, even the most intimate ones.
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Copyright © 2026 by Dorothy Roberts. From The Mixed Marriage Project, by Dorothy Roberts, published by One Signal/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by permission.

I grew up in Chicago believing the book on interracial marriage my father, a white anthropologist, worked on throughout my childhood sprang from his love for my Black Jamaican mother. But when I finally opened the boxes of papers I had inherited, I discovered he had begun interviewing Black-white couples as a 21-year-old graduate student in the 1930s, long before he met her. In notes from his bachelor-era interviews in the 1950s, he described a wild party for mixed-race couples only. Reading these papers left me uneasy about desire that’s racialized—when race itself becomes the attraction.

I can picture clearly the first time I was unsettled by this type of attraction. The moment plays back like a haunting scene from a movie.

It is the month before my eighth-grade graduation from my integrated school in Kenwood, as the chilly Chicago spring slowly warms into summer. I am barely thirteen years old. During recess or when school lets out, I notice two white girls in my grade leaning casually against the school wall as Black boys bend toward each one, playfully chatting.

The girls pose with an unaccustomed demeanor as they look up at the boys, seeming to hold their attention effortlessly. They are dressed in miniskirts that had become shorter than the year before, knee-high socks, and fitted blouses. I can tell they fancy themselves more mature than our classmates for talking with the boys in this manner. In hindsight, I suspect that the boys were students at the high school, who crossed the park separating our schools for a chance to share this momentary exchange.

That was my first awareness of the dynamic of white girls and Black boys expressing a distinctive attraction toward each other. The sight of those boys and girls interacting was unlike anything I had seen or experienced before. It felt unfamiliar, a sharp contrast to the behavior I was used to from my classmates.

In my little autograph book, with a blue cover and multicolored pages, where my classmates wrote playful farewells as we departed for …

Progressives notch another win over Democratic moderates as Sanders-AOC ally nears Congress
Trust is earned, not demanded.

A progressive organizer backed by left-wing champions Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one step away from winning a seat in Congress.
Analilia Mejia, who has made rebuilding the Democratic Party a central pillar of her campaign, is the front-runner in an April special congressional election for a blue-leaning district in New Jersey after pulling off a major upset in last week's Democratic primary.
The ballot box showdown, where Mejia narrowly edged out front-runner former Rep. Tom Malinowski, was the latest face-off between progressives and more mainstream Democrats. Mejia ultimately beat 10 other Democrats for the chance to fill the seat left vacant after now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who stepped down after winning last November's gubernatorial election.
While Mejia was the clear choice of the left flank of the party's base, the rest of the field appeared to divide the more moderate and center-left vote. And Malinowski was battered by a slew of attack ads put out by a group affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which opposed Malinowski because he said he supports conditions on aid to Israel.
‘ABOLISH ICE’—WHERE SANDERS AND AOC-BACKED MEJIA STANDS ON THE ISSUES 
Trailing by nearly 900 votes five days after the primary, Malinowski conceded on Tuesday.
Regardless of how she won, Mejia is getting showered with praise from national progressive leaders.
"She stands for a progressive populist economic agenda," Rep. Ro Khanna of California, who also backed Mejia, emphasized Friday in a social media post. "She is the future!" 
And the victory by Mejia, who worked as national political director on Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, is the latest boost for the left against the establishment since socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent shock waves across the nation with his Democratic primary victory in June 2025.
'FULL-BLOWN BATTLE' BREWING IN DEM PARTY AS MAMDANI-STYLE CANDIDATES RISE IN KEY RACES
Mamdani's primary win, followed by his double-digit general election triumph, was far from a one-off for the left last year.
Transit advocate and progressive organizer Katie Wilson narrowly edged out incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell in Seattle's mayoral election.
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield, who is known for her focus on housing justice, won the showdown for Detroit mayor in a landslide, succeeding longtime Mayor Mike Duggan.
DEMOCRATS HAD MAJOR ELECTION VICTORIES IN 2025, BUT WINS DON’T ERASE PARTY’S CRITICAL WEAKNESSES
It wasn't just city hall battles.
Progressive candidates over performed …

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Bad Bunny’s Stunning Redefinition of “America”

His joyous, internationalist, worker-centered vision was a declaration of war against Trumpism.

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An estimated 135 million viewers in the United States watched Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka Bad Bunny, perform live at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Many millions more all over the world later caught the show online. What they saw was a stunning redefinition of what it means to be an American.

It took about five seconds to realize this was no ordinary halftime show. And another 30 for Bad Bunny to overrun the trench work of the US culture war, and the schisms of race, gender, class, and sexuality so easily manipulated both by MAGA nationalists and bad-faith centrists. He showed all kinds of people working and playing, creating a universal joy that excluded none.

Bad Bunny jammed over a century of history into his 13-minute performance. He started where all good history should: with labor, walking through a sugar plantation set as workers cut the cane that, over the decades, has generated incalculable profits, mostly channeled to Europe and the United States from the Caribbean, including Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican homeland. And even as the show moved on to other themes—and the other performers, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin—the sugar cane remained, surrounding scenes of urban streets, Puerto Rican casitas, Bronx bodegas, and those ubiquitous cheap plastic chairs. The whole extravaganza—its monumental scale, cultural storytelling, and celebration of hard-working men and women—seemed like a WPA mural jolted alive by the rhythm of perreo.

That Bad Bunny sang mostly in reggaeton Spanish was an unabashedly defiant act. But most of the show’s politics, however obvious to some, was largely muted by the lush pageantry. Was the woman in the couple who married on stage pregnant? If so, was this a symbolic thumbing of the nose atTrump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship? (We’ll have this baby right here on the 50-yard-line, and it will be American and a US citizen!) Similarly, when Bad Bunny gave a Grammy he recently won to a young boy, viewers immediately speculated that the boy was Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old seized by ICE in Minneapolis. He wasn’t, but the point felt clear: He could have been; according to The Guardian, ICE has captured roughly 3,800 minors between January and October 2025.

And the sexualized …

White House stands by Howard Lutnick as Epstein file fallout grows
What's the administration thinking here?

President Donald Trump’s administration is defending Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick against bipartisan calls for the Cabinet secretary to resign due to his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The latest trove of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice showed that Lutnick planned to visit Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands in December 2012 after claiming that he and his wife cut ties with the disgraced financier in 2005. Uncovered emails show that Lutnick kept in touch with Epstein after his 2008 conviction in Florida.

Both men signed a document on behalf of limited liability companies to acquire stakes in the advertising technology company Adfin, which would later shutter, in December 2012.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked whether there has been any shift in how the White House is viewing the secretary, who testified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

“No,” Leavitt said during Tuesday’s press briefing. “Secretary Lutnick remains a very important member of President Trump’s team, and the president fully supports the secretary.”

Lutnick defended himself during a Tuesday morning testimony to the Senate committee on appropriations.

“To the best of my memory, I met him when he moved next door to me, and I met him two other times in 14 years, none within six years of that first meeting,” Lutnick told Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE). “And then a year and a half later, and none thereafter, and in the presence of my wife. And as [Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)] said, under no circumstances is there a single word that I’ve done anything remotely wrong in any possible regard.”

“I did not have … anything you could call a relationship, anything you call an acquaintance,” he continued. “I literally met him three times over 14 years with wide spread in between. That’s all I can remember. That’s all there is in the documents.”

Lutnick also told Van Hollen that he and his family indeed had lunch on Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands while on vacation. “My wife was with me, as were my four children and nannies. I had another couple,” he said. “They were there as well with their children, and we had lunch on the island.”

Leavitt defended Trump’s insistence that he cut ties with Epstein after a 2019 FBI report revealed Trump allegedly called a Palm Beach, Florida, police chief in 2006 to express gratitude for “stopping” Epstein.

“What I will say is that the president has always remained consistent, and that he …

‘Going to Hell’: Democrats Press DHS Officials on Immigration Action 
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

Democrats aired their grievances against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, even questioning the salvation of agency leaders.

Questioning grew so contentious that Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., slammed his gavel to remind his colleagues of House “decorum” standards.

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was questioning Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on his salvation.

“Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?” McIver asked.

“Yes, ma’am,” Lyons responded.

“Oh yes, well, how do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?”

“I’m not going to entertain that question,” Lyons answered.

“Of course not,” McIver shot back. “Do you think you’re going to hell, Mr. Lyons?”

Garbarino quickly interjected, reminding McIver and all members of “standards of decorum and debate.”

?Rep. McIver: “Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?”
 
Director Lyons: “Yes, ma'am.”
 
McIver: “Oh yes, well how do you think judgement day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?”
 
Lyons: “I'm not going to entertain that question.”
 
McIver: "Of…
— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) February 10, 2026

The exchange took place during the over three-hour-long hearing titled, “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS.” It was one of multiple contentious moments between lawmakers and President Donald Trump’s immigration officials.

The hearing comes on the heels of the administration deploying about 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota to carry out a large immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities. Anti-ICE protests have expanded in the state after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, on Jan. 24, and an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, also 37, on Jan. 7.

After Pretti’s death, Trump deployed border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to take over the enforcement operation. Since his arrival, Homan says cooperation between state, local, and federal law enforcement has improved, leading him to decrease the number of federal agents in the Twin Cities by 700.

In addition to Lyons, Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Rodney Scott, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told members of Congress on Tuesday that under Trump’s leadership, the public is safer, the border is secure, and order has been restored to the immigration system.

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is restoring integrity, accountability, and security to America’s legal immigration system,” Edlow said.

Multiple lawmakers adamantly disagreed with Edlow’s claim during the hearing, even accusing ICE agents of acting like “secret police.”

“I have a simple suggestion: if you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one,” Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., told Lyons.

Rep. Dan Goldman to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons:
 
"I have a simple suggestion: if you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one." …

Swing-state Dem in crucial Senate race facing heat for weeks long silence on heinous illegal immigrant crime
Who's accountable for the results?

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, a vocal critic of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who is running for re-election in November, is facing heat from Georgia Republicans over his lack of public comment until today on news that ICE lodged a detainer for a Georgia illegal immigrant accused of a heinous crime. 
On Jan. 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced it placed a detainer on Mexican national Kenneth Moreno Guzman after he allegedly broke into the back door of a Georgia family’s home earlier that month and raped an 11-year-old girl while threatening her 10-year-old sister in the room with a knife. 
"Another horrific tragedy for two innocent children by the hands of a criminal illegal alien. This monster should have never been in our country in the first place," Assistant Secretary DHS Tricia McLaughlin said in a press release at the time. 
"These are the victims President Trump and Secretary Noem are fighting for and the media and sanctuary politicians ignore. We have lodged an arrest detainer to ensure ICE is notified to arrest this creep before he can prey on more innocent children." 
THIS SENATE DEMOCRAT WANTS VOTER ID FOR HIS CAMPAIGN EVENTS — BUT NOT FEDERAL ELECTIONS
A Fox News Digital search did not find any public comment from Ossoff acknowledging the crime or the importance of ICE’s involvement as of Monday. 
When reached for comment on Tuesday, Ossoff told Fox News Digital, "Instead of raiding Americans’ homes without judicial warrants, demanding Americans’ papers at checkpoints, and detaining 5-year olds, Americans want ICE to return to its purpose: arresting violent criminals like Kenneth Moreno Guzman who are here illegally, and I commend the law enforcement professionals involved in this criminal’s arrest."
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY AT RISK? A LOOK AT THE 6 GOP SENATE SEATS MOST IN JEOPARDY IN MIDTERM ELECTIONS
Over the past few weeks, Ossoff has made several public statements critical of ICE and invoked the names of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both killed during interactions with federal immigration agents in Minnesota. Several Republicans running for office in Georgia, including his Senate opponents, took issue with Ossoff’s weeks-long silence on Guzman's crime.
"It’s been utter silence from Jon Ossoff about the illegal alien who raped an 11-year-old girl and held her 10-year-old sister at knifepoint in Ossoff’s own backyard — just like his silence when Joe Biden opened the southern border four years ago," former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley, running for Senate in a Republican primary to challenge Ossoff, told Fox News …

Paramount sweetens all-cash offer to buy Warner Bros with ‘additional benefits’
Unelected doesn't mean harmless.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is once again putting full confidence behind his company’s hostile takeover bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery by sweetening the deal with what he calls “additional benefits.”

The added guarantees announced on Tuesday include a “ticking fee” that pays Warner Bros. shareholders 25 cents per share if Paramount’s deal doesn’t go through by the end of the year. The fee amounts to a payment worth roughly $650 million for every quarter after Dec. 31 until the transaction has been approved.

Paramount is also offering to pay the $2.8 billion termination fee that is required of Warner Bros. if the studio abandons its deal with Netflix.

“The additional benefits of our superior $30 per share, all-cash offer clearly underscore our strong and unwavering commitment to delivering the full value WBD shareholders deserve for their investment,” Ellison said in a statement. “We are making meaningful enhancements — backing this offer with billions of dollars, providing shareholders with certainty in value, a clear regulatory path, and protection against market volatility.”

Among the financial incentives to the hostile bid is a personal guarantee from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who previously pledged to pay $43.3 billion to cover the equity financing for Paramount’s amended offer and any damage claims against the entertainment company. Paramount says the personal guarantee made by David Ellison’s father is “irrevocable.”

Paramount intends to pay $30 per share to Warner Bros. shareholders, who now have until March 2 to back the Ellisons’ bid by tendering their shares. This marks the third time Paramount has pushed back the deadline for its tender offer.

The monetary value of Paramount’s bid remains unchanged. Warner Bros. has repeatedly rejected the hostile bidder’s efforts.

Echoing past statements, the Warner Bros. Board of Directors said it will compare Paramount’s sweetened offer to its pending agreement with Netflix. After completing its review, the board will then recommend whether Warner Bros. shareholders should either accept or reject the amended offer.

“WBD stockholders are advised not to take any action at this time with respect to the amended Paramount Skydance tender offer,” the board said on Tuesday.

Netflix modified its prevailing bid to an all-cash offer last month in order to compete with Paramount’s cash offer, but Paramount’s latest move shows it has no intent to back down.

The two bidders are currently under …

White House confirms Trump ‘floated’ renaming Penn Station and Dulles Airport after himself
Who benefits from this decision?

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump raised the idea of renaming New York’s Penn Station and Virginia’s Washington Dulles International Airport after himself in a conversation with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

During the White House press briefing, Leavitt was asked about allegations Schumer has made that Trump sought his support for renaming the two iconic transportation hubs.

“It was something the President floated in his conversation with Chuck Schumer, as for the funding, the president has addressed that separately himself,” Leavitt said.

Trump told reporters last Friday, onboard Air Force One, that it was Schumer who, in a one-on-one meeting, suggested renaming Dulles and Penn Station.

Schumer called Trump’s recounting of the conversation an “absolute lie.” The minority leader said the president linked his support to the renaming to the restoration of $16 billion in federal funds previously awarded to the Gateway rail tunnel project linking New York and New Jersey.

“Only one man can restart the project, and he can restart it with the snap of his fingers,” Schumer said.

Last Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must immediately unfreeze the Gateway tunnel funds, which the Department of Transportation had not disbursed since last year.

Transportation officials petitioned a separate judge for a stay of that previous order, which was denied on Monday. Instead, Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Federal District Court in Manhattan issued a temporary stay until Thursday, which should allow the Trump administration adequate time to file an appeal of last week’s ruling.

TRUMP’S DEPORTATIONS MAY HURT, NOT HELP, GOP’S POLITICAL MATH

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Trump’s views on NATO could spark Russian opportunities in Europe
Who's accountable for the results?

President Donald Trump’s complicated relationship with NATO will shape how far Russia goes to further fracture those ties, according to a new report from Harvard University’s Belfer Center.

Trump has pressured America’s NATO allies to increase their own defense spending and capabilities to reduce their reliance on U.S. support since returning to office, raising concerns in capitals across Europe.

European countries have accused Russia of repeatedly carrying out “hybrid” or “gray zone” attacks, which can include jamming communication systems, cyberattacks, sabotage, arson, the cutting of undersea cables, and more moves that don’t rise to the level of direct kinetic military action.

These gray zone operations have largely targeted countries along NATO’s eastern flank, closest to Russia’s borders. In recent months, these operations have appeared to come more frequently and more brazenly.

The Harvard report concludes that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “core strategic objective is to fracture the NATO alliance,” and that it will likely continue their gray zone campaign against Eastern European countries “culminating in a limited military incursion into NATO’s northeastern flank.”

Since last September, Russian drones have entered Polish and Romanian airspace, three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated Estonian airspace, a Russian jet flew over a German Navy frigate in the Baltic Sea, and airports in Denmark and Norway had to shut down temporarily due to unknown drone activity.

There is currently an “unprecedented volume and frequency of potentially lethal attacks,” Laura Cooper, who served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia during the Biden administration, said in December.

A possible option the Harvard paper identified would be for Russia to target a symbolic area near Russia or Moscow-friendly Belarus, such as the Estonian city of Narva, which is along Estonia’s border with Russia in the northeastern corner of the Baltic nation.

The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service released its 2026 threat report on Tuesday, in which a foreword from Director General Kaupo Rosin states: “In the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service’s assessment, Russia has no intention of militarily attacking Estonia or any other NATO member state in the coming year.”

One of the Estonian intelligence report’s top takeaways, however, is that “Russia’s immediate and more ambitious aims both serve to expand its influence and …

ICE leader Todd Lyons declines to defend Kristi Noem amid calls for her resignation
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The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to defend Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when asked if she should resign during a heated House hearing where Democrats intensified calls for Noem to step down.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons was asked by Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-NY) during the House Homeland Security Committee’s first oversight hearings of immigration agencies in more than a year if Noem should leave her post atop the government’s third-largest department. Lyons would not comment on Noem.

“The American people are angry, and they’re demanding accountability and justice from those giving the orders,” Kennedy said. “Mr. Lyons, yes or no. Do you believe that Secretary Noem should resign?”

Lyons paused for a second then said, “I’m not going to comment on that, sir.”

“So you’re going to look the families of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in the eye and tell them Secretary Noem should keep her job after their loved ones were killed?” Kennedy said.

“Sir, the loss of any life is unacceptable,” Lyons said, later adding that he would not comment on ongoing investigations into the January deaths of two U.S. citizens shot by ICE and U.S. Customs an Border Protection employees in Minneapolis.

Democrats repeatedly lamented Noem’s role in the Trump administration throughout the hearing, beginning with ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson’s (D-MS) statement at the opening of the hearing. Noem, a former congresswoman and South Dakota governor, was confirmed by the Senate in January 2025.

“Since being sworn in, Secretary Noem has enriched herself, abused the power of her office, obstructed congressional oversight, and violated her oath to the Constitution,” Thompson said. “Secretary Noem is a liar with no concern for the lives of Americans killed by the Department she runs. She must go.”

Democrats were expected to focus their questions on Lyons and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott on the shootings; the instructions that federal agents and officers in Minneapolis were given while making arrests; and what led to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s mischaracterization of the Pretti shooting.

Noem, DHS special government employee Corey Lewandowski, and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are supportive of arresting as many illegal immigrants as possible through more aggressive means, while White House border czar Tom Homan, Scott, Lyons, and other senior federal law enforcement within DHS want to focus on violent criminals and go about it …

GOP mutiny forces House Speaker Mike Johnson to delay vote on key piece of Trump’s agenda
This is performative politics again.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a key vote in the House of Representatives Tuesday as GOP leaders work to quell a burgeoning mutiny within their ranks.
House Republican leaders had planned for a measure in the early afternoon that, if successful, would block the House from voting on reversing President Donald Trump's tariffs. 
It comes after Democrats planned to force such a vote specifically targeting Trump's tariffs on Canada sometime this week.
But Johnson is dealing with a razor-thin majority and can only afford to lose one vote to still pass anything along partisan lines, which Tuesday's vote is likely to be.
THESE ARE THE 21 HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO HELD OUT AGAINST TRUMP, JOHNSON ON $1.2T SPENDING BILL
At least three House Republicans have said they are planning to vote "no" with several others still undecided. 
The vote expected to take place on Tuesday is called a "rule vote," which is a procedural mechanism that sets up terms for debate and final consideration of unrelated pieces of legislation.
Rule votes normally fall along party lines even if the underlying bills have bipartisan support.
HOUSE GOP MAJORITY SHRINKS TO JUST ONE VOTE AS JOHNSON SWEARS IN NEW HOUSE DEMOCRAT
This time, however, House GOP leaders included language in the rule that, if adopted during the rule vote, would block the chamber from considering legislation overturning Trump's tariffs through at least July.
"The rule is to bring bills to the floor and set the parameters for debate. The purpose is not to sneak in unrelated language that expands the power of leadership at the expense of our members," Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., told reporters Tuesday morning. "I will not be voting for any rule that has language of that nature."
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., confirmed to Fox News Digital he would vote against the rule over concerns with the tariff authority language.
It's a common frustration among Republicans who believe Congress has ceded too much of its authority, including on tariffs, to the administrative state. But most will not go so far as to block Trump's foreign trade agenda.
Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., meanwhile, told The Hill that she would also be a "no" vote.
Others, like Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., have not yet shared how they will vote.
Bacon did, however, share an X post Tuesday that signaled he was critical of tariffs' impact on the U.S. economy.
Multiple House Republicans told Fox News Digital the change in Tuesday's schedule is both a bid to give GOP leaders more time to corral those "no" votes and work on any …