President Trump clashes with Senate Republicans over his new anti-weaponization fund.

Why are Republicans rejecting the new fund?

Senator Thune, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, called up the acting attorney general to explain how this fund would work.

They were not reassured about that fund at all.

I'm Georgia Howe.

John Bickley is out today. It's Friday, May 22nd, and this is Morning Wire.

Is Cuba next on the chopping block for Trump? After the president's move to indict its former dictator,

experts say Trump is teeing up a major geopolitical move. The president's preference is always

a negotiated agreement that's peaceful. That's always our preference. That remains our preference

with Cuba. I'm just being honest with you, you know, the likelihood of that happening,

given who we're dealing with, right now is not high.

And this graduation season, almost two-thirds of higher education degrees are going to women.

We look at the gender gap trend and some of its downstream effects.

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I am looking forward to a vacation a week from now, and I was very excited to see that

Quince just dropped a vacation edit. I've talked about Quince many times before. It's an

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comparable to designer items, but at a much more affordable

price point. I'm a huge fan. This sweater is actually from Quince and this new vacation edit has a lot

of linen, cotton poplin and bathing suits, which is exactly what I need for my upcoming trip.

I'm particularly excited to try the recently launched bathing suits. I have very high hopes based on

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