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Senate Republicans are weighing their next steps after the Trump administration's announcement that it is scrapping a $1.8 billion settlement fund for the president's allies who claim to have been politically prosecuted. That announcement Tuesday could help Republicans move forward on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. GOP senators had revolted against the fund and pressured the Trump administration to change course. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in testimony Tuesday that the fund was being dropped altogether. But Democrats are still promising to force votes on the fund once the Senate takes up immigration enforcement legislation, leaving the path ahead uncertain.

President Donald Trump confirmed he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “crazy," and that he's unhappy that Israel's fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon is holding back peace talks with Iran. Meanwhile the Trump administration is sticking with a deal to permanently drop tax claims against the president. It's an extraordinary flex of executive power that could help shield him from future probes of his finances and legal conduct. And the endorser-in-chief suffered a setback in Tuesday's elections, failing to lift Rep. Randy Feenstra to victory in Iowa’s Republican primary for governor.