28 JUL 26 SITREP

• Senator Lindsey Graham's state funeral was held at Washington National Cathedral today with President Trump, Vice President Vance, the full Cabinet, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Majority Leader John Thune, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Senator Tim Scott in attendance.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife, and Iranian opposition leader and former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the service.
• President Trump delivered a eulogy, Sean Hannity delivered a tribute, and additional tributes and readings were given by Reverend Tony Perkins, Marjorie Jones, Reverend William Franklin III, and Amil Roberts, with the service presided over by the Very Reverend Randolph Marshall Hollerith and Senior Pastor Reverend Tim Tate of Cora Baptist Church in Seneca, South Carolina.
• Lindsey Graham's sister and newly appointed U.S. Senator Darlene Graham, the first female Senator from South Carolina, was present at the Cathedral as members of every branch of the U.S. military carried Graham's casket into the service alongside Governor Henry McMaster, Fox News host Trey Gowdy, and Fox News Chairman Lachlan Murdoch.

• President Trump publicly demanded yesterday that Senate Majority Leader John Thune refuse to allow the Senate to recess until the SAVE Act is passed, posting on Truth Social that Thune should either pass the SAVE America Act or terminate the filibuster entirely, warning that "stupidity always brings LOSING DEATH" and invoking the prospect of a debt ceiling crisis he compared to 1929.
• Aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters he still had a good relationship with Thune but that Thune needed to get his job done, stating that terminating the filibuster would allow everything to pass and that failing to do so would result in only bad things, while also acknowledging that approximately 4 Republican senators whose names he declined to share would likely not vote for the SAVE Act.
• Senate Majority Leader John Thune pushed back at the Capitol, stating he could not find the 50 votes needed to pass the legislation, directing the White House to call gettable Republican holdouts directly rather than pointing fingers at Republicans, and referencing Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's public statement that President Trump's patience was wearing thin; Utah Senator Mike Lee formally objected on X to any Senate recess until the SAVE Act passes and requested a roll call vote.
• New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced that approximately 6,600 non-citizens were improperly registered to vote on New Jersey's voter rolls due to a software failure that occurred between 2023 and 2024, a disclosure that arrived simultaneously with President Trump's push for the SAVE Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship and explicitly bar non-citizens from federal elections.

• Singapore authorities issued Orders of Detention under the Internal Security Act against three male Singapore citizen youths between April and June 2026 in unrelated cases, with Singapore's Internal Security Department stating each individual had been influenced by violent extremist content online and had independently progressed toward planning attacks on Singaporean soil.
• A 15-year-old secondary school student was detained after authorities determined he had been radicalized by ISIS ideology, expressed support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, considered traveling overseas to join extremist groups, and researched methods for conducting attacks inside Singapore including the construction of homemade explosives.
• 19-year-old student Tan Jun Jie was detained after authorities determined he supported ISIS, had considered carrying out attacks against Singapore Armed Forces personnel and LGBTQ students at his school, researched knife attack methods, and conducted cyberattacks against Muslim organization websites he considered to be promoting incorrect religious teachings.
• A 14-year-old student was detained after authorities determined he had been radicalized by a combination of ISIS propaganda, far-right material, and mass shooting glorification content, and was actively preparing a mass-casualty stabbing attack at his school during the June holidays before his arrest; writer Melissa Chen of The Spectator contrasted Singapore's preventive detention approach with what she called failing European counterterrorism policies, citing the Berlin Pride attacker Abdul Ballout as a point of contrast.