Senate Passes Landmark Prison Reform Bill Marking a Major Bipartisan Win for President Trump “The Senate on Tuesday approved the most sweeping prison reform bill in years,” one that aims to keep inmates from ending up back behind bars after they serve their time, Stephen Dinan reports for The Washington Times. “The measure cleared on an 87-12 vote and marks a major bipartisan victory for President Trump, who had pressured GOP leaders to pass it this year, before lawmakers closed down Congress . . . Dubbed the First Step Act, the legislation would expand prison programs designed to reduce recidivism and allow some prisoners to earn credits toward early release by taking part in those programs.” Click here to read more.

“With NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building and a SpaceX rocket as his backdrop, Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday the nation’s plans to return to dominance in space. It’ll do it, first, by creating a U.S. Space Command, the 11th unified combatant command in the country,” Chabeli Herrera writes in the Orlando Sentinel.

The President’s Commission on School Safety, which President Trump created in response to the Parkland, Florida, shooting in February, issued its final report on preventing school violence yesterday. “The 177-page report also tackles building security, violence in the media, and school resource officers, and opposes raising the age for buying guns,” Fred Lucas writes in The Daily Signal.

“The Trump administration on Tuesday took first steps to ban the sale of bump stocks on semi-automatic weapons and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March,” Andrew O’Reilly reports for Fox News. “In March, President Donald Trump said his administration would ‘ban’ the devices, which he said ‘turn legal weapons into illegal machines.’”

In USA Today, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) writes that she “recently visited the United States-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, where [she] met with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents and was briefed on the challenges of an unsecured border. The problem we are dealing with is not just illegal immigration; there are illicit drugs flowing through our borders, human trafficking, and dangerous cartels exploiting vulnerable women and children. The biggest takeaway: We need the wall and the wall will work.”