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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that has been freebasing crushed Tylenol pills ever since Donald Trump told us not to.

It was another suboptimal week for American politics news. But the good news is that the government will run out of funding next week, which means—and our reading of the literature on this is admittedly light—that all politics will stop. We’ll talk about the unusually expensive lunch that border czar Tom Homan allegedly tucked into last year, and we’ll set the picnic tables for Pete Hegseth’s military jamboree next week.

But first, even by recent standards of democratic-backsliding, this week was

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