Tracy Mumford

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill yesterday, Pentagon officials gave classified briefings to members of Congress.

But according to people familiar with the sessions, the officials declined to answer many questions about the war, including about its objectives, its costs, and whether ground troops will be deployed.

And while Republicans have largely backed the president's campaign in Iran, several GOP lawmakers came out of those meetings criticizing the lack of information.

Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said, quote, We want to know more about what's going on.

We're just not getting enough answers.

Another Republican, Representative Nancy Mace, said there's been a deeply troubling gap between how the administration has justified the war to the American public and what officials are saying behind closed doors.

A few other quick updates now on the Trump administration, from airport chaos to dramatic new numbers from the Census Bureau.

First, The Times has confirmed that at several airports across the country, ICE agents are now checking travelers' IDs and performing other screening duties.

The Trump administration deployed about 150 agents earlier this week, but until this point, they'd largely been doing things like guarding exits.

It's not clear if their deployment has had any effect on wait times for passengers, which have shot up to hours in some places, as 50,000 TSA officers go unpaid because of congressional deadlock over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood in plasma.

and taking on jobs, second jobs to make ends meet.

Speaking to lawmakers yesterday, the top TSA official warned that if funding isn't restored, wait times could get even longer and some small airports could be forced to close.

Also... They're criminals.

what they do to our country, the decisions that they hand down and hurt our country.

President Trump took his attacks on judges to a new level yesterday, calling on Republicans in Congress to put together a crime bill that, quote, cracks down on what he claims are rogue members of the judicial branch.

Trump, along with Vice President J.D.

Vance and top White House aides, have been escalating their rhetoric against judges —

in particular since the Supreme Court struck down the president's sweeping tariffs earlier this year.

After that ruling, Trump labeled the justices who ruled against him fools and lapdogs who'd been corrupted by slimeballs.