Pivoting from war. Trying mightily to put his unpopular war with Iran in voters’ rear-view mirrors, Mr. Trump held a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania where he touted economic progress and falling oil prices.

The president’s message is that the war is over and he’s negotiating a “fair” deal to prevent Iran from ever developing nuclear weapons. He said the U.S. economy will soar again because of the recent deal.

Mr. Trump also compelled the Senate to hold a do-over vote on a measure to curb his authority to wage war in Iran. His pressure worked, persuading two Republican senators who had helped pass the war-powers resolution to change their votes, resulting in the measure failing on the second vote. The change of hearts came after a closed-door meeting between Mr. Trump and Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol that at times turned into a shouting match.

“This vote puts Iran on notice!” Mr. Trump exulted later on social media. He said curbing his war powers would undercut his leverage in the peace negotiations. Mr. Trump still needs leverage, after Iran again insisted it controls commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and a ship was attacked.

The White House asked Congress to approve nearly $88 billion in emergency funding, the vast majority of it for the Pentagon’s needs due to the costs of the war.

The president ordered the Justice Department to investigate price-gouging because gas prices are not falling as fast as oil prices, which plunged to their lowest levels since the start of the Iran war on Feb. 28.

Mr. Trump accused Big Oil of refusing to slash gas prices “commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for oil” after the U.S. and Iran entered the 60-day truce to finalize the Middle East conflict.

The move takes a page from the playbook of then-President Biden, who routinely cited corporate greed as the reason prices did not fall fast enough. Mr. Biden even directed the Justice Department to investigate whether the oil industry was manipulating gas prices shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Holding a hostage. Mr. Trump abruptly canceled a bill-signing ceremony for legislation to make housing more affordable, vowing not to sign any bills until Congress approves his long-sought election-integrity proposal called the SAVE America Act.

He said the election bill, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and ID to cast a ballot, is a “national emergency.” Lawmakers in both parties desperately want the housing bill, which passed with strong bipartisan support, to become law in an election year in which voters are concerned about the high cost of living.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he expects Mr. Trump to sign the housing bill within the 10-day window the Constitution provides for a president to sign or veto legislation. Meanwhile, the president and his allies in the House are ramping up their efforts to pass the SAVE America Act.

Democrats condemned Mr. Trump’s decision.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said Mr. Trump was “running away from one of the very few accomplishments that could actually help the American people.”

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating why the IRS and other federal agencies haven’t cracked down harder on tax scofflaws within their ranks or moved to seize their wages and pensions.

In a letter to IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano, the GOP-led panel asked the agency to turn over data showing the IRS’s efforts to recover unpaid taxes, whether they’ve used wage and pension garnishment, and if they were successful at bringing any of the money into the Treasury.

More than 571,000 current and retired federal employees owe $6.3 billion in taxes, a delinquency rate that has been increasing steadily despite threatening letters from the IRS.

A recent report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) paints a bleak picture of enforcement when it comes to federal workers.

It found the number of federal employees delinquent on their taxes had increased by a staggering 43% since 2021 and that 215,000 U.S. government workers — 6.9% of the total workforce — were delinquent on their federal taxes in 2024 alone.

Immigration win for Trump. The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the Department of Homeland Security to wind down a deportation amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, ruling that Mr. Trump’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status wasn’t motivated by racism.

The decision is a significant victory for presidential power and a severe rebuke to lower-court judges, particularly Democratic appointees, who had adopted the racism argument and moved to block the president.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the 6-3 majority, said those judges had been too eager to step in and oppose Mr. Trump, even though the law specifically bars courts from interfering in these sorts of decisions.

TPS is a humanitarian protection granted to migrants from countries that have suffered war, famine, natural disaster, epidemics or instability. But previous administrations have used it for decades as a workaround of immigration law.

The Trump administration scored other major immigration victories in district court, circuit court and the Supreme Court, winning rulings that make it easier to deport migrants — and to do so faster.

The federal appeals court in the District of Columbia led the way with a ruling backing the Department of Homeland Security’s expansion of expedited removal, a speedy deportation that can be carried out by immigration officials within hours or days.

Gun rights activists were granted a victory by the Supreme Court when it struck down a Hawaii law that tried to restrict the carrying of a gun by lawful individuals to places traditionally open to the public.

A leftist playbook for fighting immigration enforcement has emerged in a Justice Department indictment of 15 people accused of violently harassing federal officers as they arrest and deport foreign criminals.

The document lists several shadowy antifa-linked groups of anarchists and anti-capitalists. The street thugs try to exploit their hatred of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers for their ultimate endgame: no more America as we know it.

The crimes revolve around the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, where ICE maintains a field office that led the 2025 crackdown on illegal alien criminals in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler argues that the White House’s attacks on critics of the Iran deal signal weakness, not strength.

Clifford D. May urges first lady Melania Trump to use her position to help Iranian women oppressed by the current regime.

The National Mall’s Reflecting Pool is the perfect image for the Trump administration, writes Joseph Curl.