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In today’s edition, we analyze the latest campaign financing reports that show the most vocal democratic opponents of President Donald Trump who experience financial profits. In addition, Andrea Mitchell examines a recent immigration decision of little less than the administration.
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Anti-Trump progressives see a boom of fundraising
The energy to the left during the first months of the second administration of President Donald Trump has not matched the “resistance” levels of his first. But that energy is still available, and as the first 2025 campaign financing reports reveal, Washington’s most open Democrats are benefiting from it.
As Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman and Joe Murphy report, a handful of Vocal Anti-Trump progressives published massive fundraising sets during the first three months of the year, although they are not ready for re-election in 2026 or will not face competitive careers.
Senator Bernie Sanders, i-vt., He led the pack, raising $ 11.5 million in that period, including almost $ 10 million of donations of less than $ 200. He spent $ 3.2 million and had a whopping $ 19 million in the bank.
Sanders has just won re -election in November. And at 83, it seems unlikely to mount a third presidential offer in 2028 or look for another Senate mandate in 2030.
But he has been celebrating demonstrations throughout the country in recent weeks that have attracted great crowds along with another progressive star, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.Y. He raised $ 9.6 million in the first quarter of 2025 while spent $ 5 million, leaving it with $ 8.2 million by hand. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, will face the re-election next year in a safe seat of the House of Representatives, but some members of the party already encourage it to look for the seat in the Senate of Chuck Schumer in 2028, but in the White House.
As for the other promising democrats seeking to fill the leadership of the empty party, Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. He raised $ 8 million from January to the end of March. He also spent $ 4 million and had $ 9.6 million available. Like Sanders, Murphy, 51, only won another mandate in the Senate last fall, but may have an eye on a higher position.
Those total fundraising are very out of the ordinary for candidates in non -electoral years without high profile races on the horizon. In comparison, Eclipsan the Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Murphy numbers published during the same period in 2023.
Part of this cash has flumed to the main candidates of the party in 2026 Battlegrounds as well. Jon Ossoff Senator, D-GA.The main objective of the Republicans for defeat on the Senate map next year, raised the striking $ 11.2 million.
One thing that the four Democrats have in common: they were among the main speakers of the party in fundraising announcements on Facebook and Instagram during the first quarter, notes of the decision writing of NBC News.
Read more conclusions of the new campaign financing reports →
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What to know about Trump’s presidency today
- The American district judge James Boasberg said in an order that he has found a probable cause to keep the Trump administration in contempt for deportation flights that he sent to El Salvador.
- Senator Chris van Hollen, D-Md., Flew to El Salvador to boost the release of Kilmar Abrego García, who was mistakenly deported by the United States government.
- The Trump administration sued Maine for not fulfilling his impulse to prohibit transgender athletes in women’s sports.
- California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, sued the Trump administration for its radical tariffs on US business partners, arguing that it was illegal to use certain emergency powers to impose them.
- The NAACP is also taking Trump administration to the courts, demanding the Department of Education for taking advantage of funds to boost schools to reduce diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
- A federal judge blocked a new executive order from Trump punishing a prominent law firm who successfully demanded Fox News for promoting false claims of electoral fraud.
- The Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, said he has not had Trump’s news since the fire caused at home on Sunday. The man accused of burning the residence of the governor of Early Pennsylvania on Sunday 911 after the attack and suggested that he was upset by Shapiro’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to recently released search orders.
The Trump immigration movement that flew under the radar
By Andrea Mitchell
Many people throughout the country are galvanized in the case of Maryland’s resident, Kilmar Abrego García, who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, such as Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, discovered when angry participants confronted him in a town hall.
Almost unnoticed in the middle of the fury there was an order from the National Security Department that issued on Friday night to send tens of thousands of people to Afghanistan and Cameroon, where they could face hunger, imprisonment or death.
It is a family tactic when the administrations of both parties want to “bury” the unfavorable news: release decisions just before the weekend. (Script writers in “The West Wing” used to call it “serve the garbage day”).
The DHS movement canceled a program that offers a temporary protected status in the United States for almost all Afghan and cameunes asylum seekers who qualified. At the end of last year, 9,000 Afghan and 3,000 people from Cameroon were in the program, according to the Congress Research Service. According to the program, they can remain in the United States temporarily and get work. Many of the Afghan are women, attacked by the Taliban for their gender, especially those linked to the US Army., The State Department or civic organizations for decades of war and US occupation.
In Cameroon, many of those affected are minorities in a country devastated by racial and ethnic violence. It is estimated that 900,000 people in Cameroon are internally displaced, and 60,000 have fled the country. The United Nations reports that Camerún is also harboring refugees from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and the Central Republic of Africa, countries that also suffer from extreme poverty and ethnic struggle.
James Sussman, from the International Rescue Committee, told NBC News that sending these people to their countries of origin is a violation of federal and international law, even when asylum seekers already face one year delays due to the tardadas. And last week, the State Department canceled humanitarian aid programs in Afghanistan provided by what used to be the United States Agency for International Development.
Sussman said: “People who come to the United States are supposed to be protected from being protected from being sent back to agitation in the countries that have come.”
Critics say that a common thread connects the treatment of the administration of those about to lose their temporary protected state with their abrupt cancellations of students’ visas and deportations of people such as Abrego García. In all these cases, they say, there is a lack of due process and humanitarian concern that has exceeded the republican and democratic administrations beyond.
🗞️ The other main stories today
- 👀 Next steps: The representative of the Republican Party, Elise Stefanik, is exploring an offer for the governor of New York, according to two sources familiar with the matter, after Trump achieved his nomination to be an ambassador of the United States before the United Nations. Read more →
- 🗳️ Jump: Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has drawn his first 2026 Democratic challenger: Nathan Sage, a military veteran, mechanical and broadcaster of Sports Radio. Read more →
- 🔵 Party Crasher: David Hogg, the vice president of the 25 -year -old Democratic National Committee, is launching a separate organization to support young primary challengers against party legislators, reports the New York Times. Read more →
- 💲 Tax Man: Republicans are discussing an unexpected idea while elaborating a bill for Trump’s agenda: increase taxes on the rich. Read more →
- ➡️ City Council tensions: Several members of the Court were escorted outside a City Council on Tuesday night in the Georgia district of the Republican representative of the Republican Party representative, with the Georgia Police, with the impressive police for two attendees. Read more →
- 🎤 He has returned: Former President Joe Biden used his first public comments since he left the position to rebuke the Trump administration approach to Social Security. Read more →
That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s bulletin was compiled by Adam Wollner.
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