President Trump threatened to pause signing new legislation from Congress into law until the Senate passes the Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote.

Although the measure has cleared the House and has majority support in the GOP-led Senate, it falls short of the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster. Republicans currently lack the votes to change the filibuster.

“It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL.”

“DO NOT FAIL!!!”

The State Department announced Friday that it has approved the sale of $151.8 million worth of munitions to Israel amid Operation Epic Fury.

Israel was given the greenlight to purchase 12,000 BLU-110A/B 1,000-pound bombs, according to the State Department. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that “an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale” of the munitions to Israel without congressional review, the department said in a statement.  

“This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a strategic regional partner that has been, and continues to be, an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East,” the statement continued. “The proposed sale will improve Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serve as a deterrent to regional threats.” 

Texas-based defense contractor Repkon USA will manufacture some of the munitions and part of the order will be “transferred from stock,” the State Department said.

President Trump confirmed that he will travel to Delaware on Saturday, with first lady Melania Trump, to attend the dignified transfer of six US service members who lost their lives in Operation Epic Fury.

"I will be going to Dover Air Force Base tomorrow, with the First Lady and Members of my Cabinet, to pay our Highest Respect to our Great Warriors, who are returning home for the last time," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "GOD BLESS THEM ALL!"

Capt. Cody Khork; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor; Sgt. Declan Coady; Maj. Jeffrey R. O’Brien; and Chief Warrant Officer Three Robert Marzan were killed in Kuwait on Sunday when an Iranian drone slammed into a tactical operations center in Port Shuaiba.

President Trump warned Friday that smaller college sports were on the verge of going "down the tubes" due to an "arms race" sparked by new rules allowing athletes to be paid.

Trump railed against court decisions paving the way for the current situation and called for legislation to rein in massive new paydays that he said threatened to all-but bankrupt schools.

"We have to save our Olympic team, because so many sports that are in the Olympics will no longer be represented by people that went through college," Trump said.

Trump summoned political and sports leaders to the event in the East Room of the White House, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, NCAA President Charlie Baker and former Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, also attended, as did New York Yankees President Randy Levine.

President Bill Clinton, in his eulogy for the late Jesse Jackson, recalled the shocking phone call the reverend made during his 1998 impeachment.

"When the Congress was trying to run me out and I was in that big impeachment fight, Jesse called me one night in the White House," Clinton said, noting he has never told this story before. Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998 on charges of lying under oath and obstruction of justice. The Senate later acquitted him.

"I thought he was calling me," Clinton recalled, "but he said, I don't want to talk to you. I want you to go get Chelsea."

"He called me to talk to my daughter, to make sure she had her head in the game, and he prayed with her on the phone."

Clinton recalled that, at the time, he was at a political low point and it was unclear if he would be able to stay in office. "Those are the things you remember," he said of Jackson reaching out.

He noted of the reverend: "He hated the sin and not the sinner. He was always trying to lift people up."

"I'm here more as a friend than a former president," Clinton said. "He was my friend when I needed it."

Kamala Harris used her eulogy at Rev. Jesse Jackson's memorial service to tout her own political horn.

"Let me just say I predicted a lot about what's happening right now," she said as the crowd roared in applause.

She did not mention her 2024 rival Donald Trump but it was clear she was talking about his presidency. Trump overwhelming beat her in their election.

"But what I did not predict is that we would not have Jesse Jackson with us right now to help us get through this," Harris added.

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President Joe Biden spent most of his eulogy for the Rev. Jesse Jackson to talk about his own political career, including his fight against racism in his home town of Wilmington and his record on black rights as president.

“I know more heads of state personally than any other president in the history of the United States," he said, going on to talk about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Biden also talked about the losses he’s experience in life, recounting the car accident that took the lives of his first wife and daughter and the loss of his son Beau.

He veered on various topics but also paid tribute to Jackson.

“Jesse was an optimist at its core,” he said. “I had the opportunity to come up in politics at a time when people like Jesse around.”

Gesturing to the crowd of guests, Biden noted of Jackson: “He used his gifts to influence generations, generations of Americans and countless elected officials, including presidents, as you see here today.”

President Barack Obama used his eulogy for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson to rail at President Trump’s administration, decrying the state of country under his leadership.

“Each day we wake up to some new assault on our Democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common decency. Every day you wake up to, to things you just didn't think were possible,” he said.

Obama didn’t say Trump’s name but his meaning was clear. And the crowd at the Chicago’s House of Hope stood in applause, cheering as he spoke.

“Each day, we're told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don't even count at all,” Obama said. “Everywhere we see greed and bigotry, being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.”

“It's hard to hope in those moments,” Obama said, adding it was tempting to “maybe just put your head down and wait for the storm to pass.”

Jackson wouldn’t have wanted that, he noted. 

“But this man, Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope.”

President Barack Obama said Jesse Jackson's first White House campaign inspired his own presidential campaign 24 years later as he paid tribute to the late reverend during his memorial service in Chicago.

Obama noted he had just graduated from college when Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, saying watching him on the debate stage showed "there wasn't any place, any room where we didn't belong."

"He paved the road for so many others to follow," Obama said on Friday.

He credited Jackson with inspiring him to move to Chicago, joking: "I definitely didn't know how I was going to survive these Chicago winters, because I grew up in Hawaii."

Still, Obama said it was because of Jackson that he was taken seriously as a candidate when he made his own presidential bid in 2008.

"It was because of that path that he had laid, because of his courage, his audacity that two decades later, a young black senator from Chicago's South Side would even be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidential nomination," Obama said.

A number of public figures have gathered to pay their respects to Jesse Jackson. Former Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first lady Jill Biden are also in attendance.

President Trump claimed Friday that the Communist dictatorship on the island of Cuba is on its last legs.

"Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too," the president told CNN host Dana Bash in a phone interview.

"They want to make a deal so badly. They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco (Rubio) over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one [Iran] right now. We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready — after 50 years.

"I've been watching it for 50 years, and it’s fallen right into my lap -- because of me, it’s fallen -- but it’s nevertheless fallen right into the lap. And we’re doing very well."

Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted Friday morning that gas prices will come down in a matter of "weeks, not months" following a surge due to the war in the Middle East.

"Look, Iran has been an escalator of energy prices [for] 47 years, the whole history of their regime," Wright told "Fox & Friends."

"We've got a little bit of an interruption right now, to finally put an end to their ability to wreak havoc, to kill Americans, and to terrorize their neighbors."

According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of regular gas stands at $3.32 nationwide -- up from $2.98 one week ago, before the start of Operation Epic Fury.