Iran Mocked Trump on Camera — Hours Before His Deadline Hit Zero

Meanwhile, back in Washington, the news cycle didn't slow down for a single second.

**Trump signed a new executive order** directing him to reopen mental health institutions across the country — what he called "insane asylums" — saying the U.S. needs to get people off the streets.

"We are going to have to bring them back," Trump said at the signing. "Hate to build those suckers, but you've got to get the people off the streets."

That post, quoting Trump directly, pulled in over **1,400 likes and 329 retweets** on X — making it one of the most-engaged executive action posts of the weekend.

On Capitol Hill, Trump threw a grenade into the DHS funding debate.

According to Reuters, Trump told Republicans not to cut any deal on funding the Department of Homeland Security unless Democrats first pass legislation requiring **proof of citizenship to register to vote**.

It's a two-for-one demand — tie immigration enforcement funding to a voting rights fight — and it puts moderate Republicans in a difficult position heading into another budget standoff.

Speaking of DHS, Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma cleared a key procedural vote Sunday to advance his nomination as DHS Secretary — a significant step, but not yet a confirmation.

And then there's DOGE.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency dropped a bombshell of a different kind: **seven years of Medicaid spending data**, from 2018 through 2024, made publicly searchable for the first time.

The move puts hundreds of billions of dollars in federal healthcare spending under public scrutiny and signals that DOGE's next major target may be the $900 billion Medicaid program.

Newsmax reported on the release, framing it as an opportunity for the public "to see for themselves the level of fraud in the program."

Critics of the effort have been quick to push back, with some on X noting that DOGE's broader fraud claims have received multiple "False" or "Misleading" ratings from fact-checkers — and that releasing raw data without context can be used to mislead as easily as it can expose genuine waste.

The Medicaid data release comes as DOGE continues to face legal and political challenges across multiple fronts — but Musk's team is clearly shifting its focus from the Pentagon and foreign aid to **domestic entitlement spending**, which is a much larger political minefield.

And if you thought Trump was done signing executive orders for the week — he wasn't.

In a White House ceremony where he presented the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the Navy Midshipmen football team, Trump signed an order titled **"Preserving America's Game"** — directing the FCC and Commerce Department to work with the College Football Playoff, the NCAA, and broadcast partners to give the Army-Navy game an exclusive TV window every December.

No other college football games would be allowed to air at the same time.

It's a small thing on the policy scale.

But it signals something larger: that Trump is using the executive order mechanism — broadly and frequently — across every domain from military posturing to Saturday afternoon football.

Here's what today looks like from 30,000 feet.

Iran is calling Trump's bluff — or at least performing like it is — on live camera, in English, on the day his deadline expires.

DOGE is making its first serious move toward Medicaid, one of the most politically sensitive programs in the federal budget.

And Trump is using funding hostage-taking — holding DHS money over voter ID legislation — in a way that sets up a confrontation with Democrats heading into budget season.

**The stakes this week are not small.** From oil prices to healthcare spending to voting rights to potential military action in the Persian Gulf — this is one of the most consequential news cycles of the year.

And it's only Monday morning.

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