The Patriot Post® · Friday Top Headlines

• Senate passes $4 trillion budget in crucial step for Trump’s tax overhaul (The Washington Times)

• Bush slams bigotry, nativism in speech (National Review)

• Federal court rules World War I memorial cross must be torn down (Fox News)

• A huge win for cronyism: Scott Pruitt assures Republicans he won’t harm ethanol mandate (Washington Examiner)

• Grassley calls on DOJ to lift gag order on FBI informant in Russia-uranium-Clinton probe (CNS News)

• Foiled terror plot raises number of plots, attacks to 98 since 9/11 (The Daily Signal)

• Transgender charged with raping 10-year-old girl in bathroom (The Daily Wire)

• ACLU aims to stop transgender bathroom initiative in Montana (Fox News)

• Sanders to visit Puerto Rico, skip Women’s Convention after backlash (The Hill)

• Humor: Hollywood confirms plans to continue saying conservatives hate women (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: We live in the dystopia young adult fiction warns us about (The Federalist)

• Policy: The GOP’s bump-stock cop-out (The Washington Post)

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