• Trump persuades House GOP to drop voter-ID demand: A group of House Republicans, led by Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett, backed off their demand to include the SAVE America Act in the government funding package after President Donald Trump spoke with them on Monday. Trump is seeking to get the House to end the partial government shutdown by passing the funding package from the Senate, and while he is in agreement with the Republicans on the SAVE America Act — a bill that would require voter ID and proof of citizenship for all federal elections — he needs the government to be funded. Furthermore, Luna explained, “There is something called a standing filibuster that would effectively allow Sen. [John] Thune to put voter ID on the floor of the Senate. We are hearing that that is going well, and that he is considering that.” The House is reportedly now on track to vote on the funding package today.

• Clintons agree to testify: Under threat of being held in contempt of Congress, Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to comply with subpoenas, forcing their testimony before the House. The former president and first lady announced their intention to appear before Congress on Monday night, but Rep. James Comer said he will not drop the criminal contempt of Congress charges yet, saying, “We don’t have anything in writing.” Former presidents have never before been forced to testify before Congress — although some have done so willingly — and this would represent the first time a president was held in criminal contempt. No former president had ever had his home raided by the FBI, either, until 2022.

• Noem announces body cameras: The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will wear body cameras in the field, effective immediately. Surely Black Lives Matter and leftists everywhere are cheering! Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Ron Johnson, have signaled their support. Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer pushed for body cameras and a few other reforms during his negotiations on DHS funding, which led to a partial government shutdown that is expected to end today. If Congress advances the proposed changes and the two-week DHS funding, then funding for the rest of Fiscal Year 2026 can be discussed. Leftists have begun to realize that, rather than showing the police brutality they expected, body cameras have instead demonstrated the extraordinary abuse law enforcement officers regularly put up with.

• DC crime drops: Crime in the nation’s capital has continued to drop since President Trump aggressively addressed the issue last year, when he deployed the National Guard. In the first month of 2026, the Metropolitan Police Department’s crime data showed its lowest crime level in a decade, with just two recorded homicides, representing one of the lowest monthly totals on record. DC started 2026 with no homicides for over three weeks, a span not seen in over 30 years. By this time last year, there had already been nine homicides. Furthermore, violent and property crimes overall have dropped by 600 points from last January. The data demonstrate that Trump’s crime-fighting efforts have been highly effective and are making Washington, DC, a safer place.

• U.S.-India trade deal: President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have announced a new trade deal whereby the U.S. will slash tariffs to 18% and India will invest $500 billion in the U.S. Trump also announced that Modi has agreed to “stop buying Russian Oil,” although India has yet to confirm that detail. If India divests from Russian oil, it would, as Trump says, “help END THE WAR in Ukraine.” Trump’s willingness to lower tariffs from 25% to 18% indicates that India has committed to change, since these tariffs were imposed because of its purchase and resale of Russian oil.

• Epstein victims’ complaints lead to thousands of files pulled: Several thousand of the 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files that the Justice Department released on Friday have since been pulled down. The pulling of these pages was in response to complaints raised by Jeffrey Epstein’s victims over their identities and other information being revealed in the massive document dump. U.S. Attorney in Manhattan Jay Clayton admitted in a letter to U.S. District Judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer that these victims’ identities should not have been exposed and blamed it on “technical or human error.” He noted that the Department was taking steps to review and identify any additional missed redactions.

• Haiti flip-flop: In his first term, President Trump’s comments about Haiti being a “hellhole” country or other even more impolite terms were so offensive to celebrity leftists that many were pictured wearing shirts saying “Haiti is great already.” Of course, Haiti has never been great and has always been a failed state. President Trump is just among the few willing to say these things clearly. Now, however, Democrats insist that Haiti is so dangerous and such a failed state that deporting Haitian nationals back to their homes is a “death sentence.” In fact, U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes indefinitely paused the termination of the Temporary Protected Status of Haitians that was set to send some 350,000 Haitians who fled because of an earthquake over a decade ago back to Haiti. The Trump administration has promised to elevate this case to the Supreme Court.

• DNC is $100M behind RNC: While Democrats appear to have the momentum going into the midterm elections later this year, there is one significant factor in which they currently find themselves on the losing end. The Republican National Committee has significantly outpaced the Democratic National Committee in fundraising. Currently, Republicans hold an almost $100 million advantage over Democrats, with the RNC pulling in $172 million in 2025 with $95 million cash on hand, versus the DNC accumulating $145 million last year with only $14 million in cash on hand, as well as holding $17 million in debt. The two parties’ congressional election committees also show a Republican lead in fundraising, with Speaker Mike Johnson noting that “we’re going to have a war chest to run on.”

• French authorities raid X offices in Paris: French cybercrime authorities have executed a search of X’s Paris offices, and the Paris prosecutor has summoned both X owner Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear before French authorities to answer questions. The French investigation into X claims that the algorithm is not in compliance with French laws, that it could lead to political interference, and, as CBS News reports, that “X was allowing users to share nonconsensual, AI-generated sexually explicit imagery, and holocaust denial content.” Musk called the investigation “baseless” and simply a political attack on free speech. In response to CBS’s request for comment, Musk’s xAI auto-reply stated, “Legacy media lies.” EU regulators have also launched an investigation into X’s “bikini-fy” tool, which they are calling on Musk to block. With all of France’s nude beaches, this isn’t about blocking bikinis, but rather censoring “far-right” speech and labeling it “political interference.”

Headlines

• Bondi announces two more arrests in Minnesota church invasion (NY Post)

• U.S. Olympic officials alter name of “Ice House” hospitality space amid protests against federal agents (Fox Sports)

• Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech (CNBC)

• Panama blocks Chinese-linked company from operating ports at either end of the canal (Washington Times)

The Executive News Summary is compiled daily by Jordan Candler, Thomas Gallatin, Sterling Henry, and Sophie Starkova. For the archive, click here.