Monday, May 19, 2025 – Missouri political news headlines
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Fox News: Tornadoes in Missouri are ‘pretty devastating,’ says Sen. Eric Schmitt
P-D: St. Louis mayor doesn’t know reason for ‘holdup’ in federal emergency response to tornado (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)
KFRU (Columbia): Missouri native Jean Becker, a former top aide to President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush, shares about her time working with the Bushes (Apple Podcasts version here)
Missouri Independent’s Jason Hancocks: Winners and losers of Missouri’s 2025 legislative session
Washington Missourian: MoDOT endorses Highway 47 cost share (avoid Washington Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Allysia Finley: Democrats find an ally in “Trump counterfeit” Josh Hawley; in 2018 he filed a lawsuit to overturn ObamaCare and now he’s fighting against any Medicaid reform (avoid Wall Street Journal paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)
The Marshall Project’s Jess Bogan, via KC Star: Rural Missouri jails see windfall in Trump’s mass deportation effort (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)
NY Times letters: Readers react to Hawley’s defense of Medicaid spending (avoid NY Times paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)
P-D letter: Maplewood septuagenarian complains about Trump’s Project 2025 and GOP state lawmakers, says Republicans might change state laws on gay and minority topics (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)