Kitchen Briefs - April 3, 2026 PM
- Update from earlier one of the two crew members who ejected from their plane over Central Iran has been rescued. Another aircraft was shot down but the pilot has been rescued
- Trump is dismantling the US Forest Service
- Trump is trying to cut $73 Billion to housing, social services, healthcare, NASA, and other domestic programs to fund $1.5 Trillion military spending in 2027
- Trump is back to obsessing over Alcatraz and wants $152M to cover the first year’s of costs to reopen it into a secure prison
- The US is willing to insure up to $40 billion in potential losses for commercial tankers willing to transit the Strait of Hormuz
- Polymarket is taking bets on the missing pilot being rescued
- AG Todd Blanche says partying or emailing Epstein isn’t a crime
- In happy news, Orca whales have been spotted in Seattle which is a first
