What was it Ford said when Nixon resigned, “our long national nightmare is over”? Well, today “our long Minnesota nightmare” may be over: Tom Homan announced at a press conference the impending end of Operation Metro Surge.

However, D.C. remains at loggerheads over DHS funding. Last week House Democrats prepared a 10-point list of demands, but it wasn’t until last night that the White House made an offer, which Democrats said was inadequate. Today the Senate took up a vote to pass the DHS funding bill that had previously passed the house, but Democrats remained united (save for Fetterman) and the bill failed. As such funding for the TSA, FEMA, and other arms of the DHS will expire on Saturday, although ICE and the CBP will continue thanks to funding previously provided within the OBBBA.

Earlier in the week Speaker Johnson found himself unable, with his reduced legislative margin, to continue playing fast and loose with House rules in order to prevent any votes on Trump’s IEEPA tariffs. As such, there was a House vote this week to cancel Trump’s 25% tariff on Canada, and it passed, 219-211, with six Republicans defecting. The Senate had previously passed a similar measure three months ago, but one imagines Trump will veto it. Still, it is a sign of a crack in the Republicans’ Trumpist unity.

This week the House passed an election reform bill known as the SAVE Act, along largely partisan lines (218-213). The bill would require proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote; based on experience from a similar law in Kansas, the number of U.S. citizens that would likely be prevented from voting under this requirement is orders of magnitude greater than the number of non-U.S. citizens currently on the voter rolls. The bill faces a likely filibuster in the Senate.

Turning to judicial news, this week a federal grand jury in D.C. refused to return an indictment against 6 sitting members of Congress, veterans all, who had released a video in November reminding military troops that they do not need to follow illegal orders. Trump had reacted very badly to the video, referring to it as “seditious behavior” potentially punishable by death. Separately, Defense Secretary Hegseth had sought to reduce the retirement rank and pay of the most prominent of the six, Senator Kelly (D-AZ), in reaction to the video; but today a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to the senator in his lawsuit (Kelly v. Hegseth) to prevent Hegseth from taking these actions, on the grounds that they violated Kelly’s 1st Amendment rights.

This week Trump threatened to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, the new road connection between Detroit and Windsor paid for by the Canadian government. It turns out that shortly before making that threat, his Commerce Secretary was actively lobbied by the billionaire who owns the existing bridge linking the two cities, the Ambassador Bridge.

But believe it or not, that was neither the worst nor most corrupt Trump action of late in the world of transportation. Trump has frozen $16 billion in federal funding for the Hudson River train tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York; however, per reporting, he told Senator Schumer he would un-freeze the funds if both Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station were to be renamed after Donald J. Trump. Last week a federal judge ordered that funding be restored, but stayed that ruling until today; and today the 2nd Circuit declined to issue an emergency stay, putting the court ruling into force.