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What Happened Today – March 23, 2026

The facade of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts showing the name changed to The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

The Kennedy Center facade bears Donald Trump's name above John F. Kennedy's after his appointees voted to add it; eight architecture and preservation groups sued this week to block renovations that lack congressional approval. (Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Donald Trump cast a mail ballot for a Florida special election while demanding Congress pass a law to make mail voting illegal. He never solves problems he can still use. Republican senators pitched him a plan Sunday night to end the five-week DHS shutdown by funding everything except ICE. Trump rejected it. No deal until … Read more

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