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Did Trump Just Empty America’s Missile Arsenal on Iran?
Two months into Donald Trump’s war on Iran, the Pentagon is running on fumes. The military has fired off more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, roughly ten times the number we buy each year. We’ve burned through around 1,100 long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to our entire remaining stockpile. More than 1,200 Patriot interceptors are gone. Up to half of our THAAD interceptors used. We’re yanking missiles from South Korea and bombs from Europe just to feed this war. Pentagon officials say we spent $5.6 billion in munitions in the first two days alone. Senator Jack Reed says it could take years to rebuild. Trump started this war without Congress. He’s handed China and Russia a gift, and working Americans will pay the bill.
Is the Pentagon Now a Cash Machine for Trump’s Kids?
It’s absurd. It’s disgusting. And they’re bragging on Fox. Eric Trump went on Maria Bartiromo’s show Thursday to boast, yes boast, that his robotics company Foundation Future Industries just landed a $24 million Pentagon contract. A son of the president who’s never worked a day in defense or robotics, suddenly rolling in Pentagon cash. This comes on top of a $620 million Pentagon loan that went to a rare earth company backed by Don Junior’s venture fund. Elizabeth Warren calls it corruption in plain sight. Ilhan Omar calls them the most corrupt first family of all time. A professor at St. Andrews said the U.S. government is now one of the most corrupt governments on earth. American kids are dying in Iran. Trump’s kids are cashing in. This is banana republic stuff, and Republicans in Congress say nothing.
Why Is Trump’s EPA Hunting Abortion Pills in Your Drinking Water?
Lee Zeldin’s EPA just told states to start testing drinking water for abortion pills and birth control pills. 374 drugs on the new list. It includes misoprostol, methotrexate, daily contraceptive pills, and the NuvaRing. Here’s the thing. There’s no scientific evidence these medications are polluting our water. None. So why is Trump’s team doing this? Because they’ve lost in the courts. They’ve lost at the FDA. They’ve lost in Congress. Now they’re weaponizing environmental law to go after reproductive freedom through the back door. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon calls it uterus surveillance, and he’s right. If they can flag abortion pills as water contaminants, they lay the groundwork to ban them. Two-thirds of abortions in this country use these pills. Birth control protects millions of women. Trump’s people want to treat it all like toxic waste.
Republicans Tank in Their Own Fox News Poll
The numbers are in, and they’re ugly for the GOP. A brand new Fox News poll, Fox News, found Democrats now lead Republicans on handling the economy for the first time since 2010. Trump’s approval sits at 42 percent. Seventy percent of voters say the economy feels worse for their family. A separate Cook Political Report poll of 36 battleground districts that Trump himself carried in 2024 shows Democrats now leading by six points. One elections expert called it really astonishing, noting Democrats are winning independents by 25 points. Trump’s disapproval among independents hit 70 percent. Translation. Working people are waking up. The war is unpopular, prices are climbing, the corruption is obvious, and voters are getting ready to deliver a verdict. November 2026 is coming fast, and the MAGA coalition is cracking.
Why Are Americans Walking Away from the Spring Housing Market?
This is supposed to be the hot season for real estate. It isn’t. Existing home sales just hit a nine-month low. Mortgage rates, which had dipped near six percent in February, spiked above 6.6 percent in March after Trump’s Iran war spooked the bond markets. Pending sales are down. Contract cancellations are up. Buyers are sitting on the sidelines, and sellers are refusing to give up the low rates they locked in during the pandemic. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index just hit a record low. Gas is up a buck a gallon. The median home price sits at a record $408,800. For young families, the dream of buying a first home keeps slipping further out of reach. This is what happens when reckless war and cratering confidence collide with working people’s biggest purchase.
The Best Sleep of Her Life
And finally, some good sleep news. Astronaut Christina Koch, just back from her Artemis II trip around the Moon, says the best sleep of her life happened in space. In zero gravity, she said, your body floats into the exact position it wants. No rolling over. No stiffness. No flipping the pillow to the cool side. Just peaceful, weightless rest. For everyone out there staring at the ceiling at three in the morning, wouldn’t that be something. A night where your body just lets go. May we, and I’m thinking me, all find that kind of rest, even here on Earth.
And that’s the way it is, Today Friday, April 24, 2026. I’m Thom Hartmann.
