He says the way to get Putin to agree to a real peace deal is to “cut off his cash flow.”

“Putin is a pirate, he’s got Stalin’s taste for blood, that’s clear. The man’s got blood under his fingernails. He is not going to come to the table, in my opinion, until you make it more costly for him not to settle than it is to continue to prosecute the war,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said.

The reworked 19-point peace plan enticed Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials to accept the agreement — at least preliminarily — reportedly leaving some key sticking points unsettled.

The complaints from GOP senators — combined with blowback from Kyiv and across Europe — apparently spurred Trump to direct his negotiators to work more closely with Ukraine to get a balanced deal, after initially saying Ukraine had until Thanksgiving to agree to a 28-point plan that favored Russia.

Professions Trump admin says is not worthy of full student loans:

Nursing

Physical Therapy

Occupational Therapy

Social Work

Public Health

Architecture

Accounting

Special Education

Secondary Education

Music Education

World Languages Education

Integrative Chaplaincy

"Requests to transfer inmates from the Colorado Department of Corrections emanate from the state, and not from other entities. The Department is not currently seeking any transfer,” said Alondra Gonzalez, a spokesperson for CDOC.

The convicted former Mesa County clerk will remain in state custody after the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) said Tuesday night that it would not respond to a Department of Justice request to take Tina Peters into federal custody.

"We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”

“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”

She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty.

Joy-Ann Reid: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it."

“We aren’t just consumers; we’re community builders,” their website says. “We’re driving the change we want to see, and demanding respect.”

The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season, and like their predecessors of a century ago, reformers are focusing on consumers’ power to push back on the policies of the Trump administration, launching a campaign they call “We Ain’t Buying It.”

The tensions are strong enough that the White House — faced with a conservative outcry — reportedly scrapped its plans to unveil the subsidy extension Monday.

“Hoping this isn’t true,” Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.), former physician, posted Monday on X in response to reports of the plan.

If they don’t, the out-of-pocket health costs for millions of people will skyrocket heading into next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans are already at risk of losing control of the House.

The deadline has put Republican leaders into a no-win position: If they extend the tax credits, they’ll go on record for the first time augmenting a Democratic law they deem noxious while infuriating a conservative base that’s spent more than 15 years trying to kill it.

Republican lawmakers and strategists fear Trump is undermining his own credibility and ability to get anything done before the midterm election.

President Trump’s heated rhetorical attacks on Democratic lawmakers, whom he called out as “traitors” who deserve to be jailed, have left his Republican allies in Washington dumbfounded and skeptical about any bipartisan dealmaking at the end of 2025.