Gavin Newsom slams Trump over “disgusting lie” about what happened to him on 9/11 – Page 2

What began as a private joke between a father and his children has become a public referendum on grief, taste, and who controls the final word on a life. To his family, the acrostic isn’t vandalism; it’s a tiny, mischievous spark of the man they lost, preserved in stone when his voice is gone. Their grief is laced with defiance: erasing the joke, they feel, would erase a piece of him.

Across the cemetery boardroom table, the trustees see something else entirely: a precedent. If one profanity is allowed, what comes next? They fear a slow erosion of solemnity, of shared norms that make a cemetery feel safe for every mourner who walks its rows. Between those two visions—personal authenticity and public decorum—lies a question no lawyer can fully settle: who owns a legacy, the loved ones who remember, or the community that must live with what’s left behind?

With roughly 90 days remaining before voters head to the polls in the midterm elections, pressure is building within the Republican Party to advance more of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.

Several Republican senators are now publicly urging Senate leadership to move more quickly, arguing that there is little time left to deliver on several key priorities before lawmakers leave Washington for the campaign season.

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has pushed his GOP colleagues for months to fall behind his plan to pass the SAVE America Act.

The MAGA megaphone has used his 700,000 followers to blast doomed proposals to push the bill’s voting restrictions through a daily barrage of social media posts.

Lee’s favored alternatives, like forcing the act through the budget process or returning to a talking filibuster, have not gained traction.

His efforts, which have picked up recently, are not gaining any traction in a caucus that is eager to turn its attention to other priorities ahead of its upcoming monthlong recess.

Even the senator’s recent appeal to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose assassination in Utah had brought Republicans together last year, is not resonating among the frustrated GOP ranks.

“I suspect Charlie Kirk would want us to remain in session and either (1) pass the SAVE America Act through budget reconciliation, or (2) require filibustering senators to speak, and keep debating it until it passes,” Lee wrote in a Monday X post.

Senate Republicans remain unconvinced. Majority Leader John Thune has insisted the bill lacks support in the chamber and rejected Lee’s approaches to overcoming Democratic obstruction.

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