From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Will Jarvis in for Tracy Mumford.

Today's Friday, May 22nd.

Here's what we're covering.

Republicans have gone along with Donald Trump for so many things for so long.

But this week, they reached their breaking point.

In Washington, my colleague Luke Broadwater is covering a stunning political turn,

with President Trump suddenly facing a wall of opposition from lawmakers in his own party.

Yesterday, Republican senators abruptly hit pause on a major funding bill the president

had been pushing amid a wide range of concerns.

This is a spit-in-the-eye insult to all my taxpayers in Louisiana to spend a billion

on a ballroom. They balked at Trump insisting that the legislation designed to fund immigration enforcement

also include money for his White House reconstruction project.

Then,

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— send the signal, hey, go breach the Capitol, destroy the building, assault police officers,

and you may even get compensated for some day.

That's absurd.

There was even more outrage over the new $1.8 billion fund for people who say they were

unfairly targeted by the government, including fears that it could be used to give payouts

to January 6th rioters.

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