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During a Tuesday afternoon, appearance on MSNBC, Ivo H. Daalder — president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during Barack Obama's presidency — expressed fears that President Donald Trump is alienating the United States' allies at a time when the U.S. needs them the most. Daalder told...
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The X account of the late Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) was activated Tuesday to promote James Walkinshaw, Connolly's former chief of staff, in the primary to replace him, Axios reported."Early voting starts TODAY in VA-11!" said the post. "Before passing, Gerry endorsed @JamesWalkinshaw to carry the torch. Let's honor that legacy and vote for bold...
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and 23 other House Republicans are pressing Senate GOP leadership to bring back key health savings account provisions that were recently dropped from their massive tax package, according to a new Politico report.In a Monday letter, the group warned that cutting the HSA provisions, which would let people use their tax-advantaged...
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FedEx has seen massive declines in shipping across the Pacific Ocean amid fallout from President Donald Trump's trade war, according to a report. The company projects its revenue will be flat or increase up to 2% in its fiscal first quarter, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, but it didn't share projections for the full year, something it...
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Once upon a time, far-right MAGA influencer Laura Loomer was a close ally of neo-Nazi "Groyper" activist Nick Fuentes — but the two are now completely estranged, and Fuentes wasted no words in a vulgar tirade against her posted Tuesday to X by Right Wing Watch. It's a massive turnabout from 2022, when Fuentes enthusiastically endorsed Loomer's...
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It's been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing individual states to ban abortion. Despite that, the number of abortions has increased. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, joined CBS News to discuss the state of abortion in the U.S.
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CNN reporter Phil Mattingly sparred with Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) this afternoon over whether President Donald Trump's decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities was successful. Earlier in the day, CNN published a report suggesting that the campaign only set Iran's nuclear capabilities back by a few months. The report cited anonymous sources...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Tuesday opposed the release of a migrant it already acknowledged was wrongly deported to El Salvador, and accused a magistrate judge of committing a "clear error.”In March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to the country despite a 2019 court order barring his removal due to fear of...
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Democrats are fed up with perceived performative stances from moderate Republicans who are concerned that voting for President Donald Trump's massive spending and tax bill could cost them their seats during the 2026 primaries. Sixteen House Republicans, all of whom represent competitive districts, sent a letter to party leadership on Tuesday...
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A video has gone viral of a landscaper being wrestled to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and beaten by immigration officers in Los Angeles as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. While Trump promised that criminals would be targeted for deportation, that has not been the case, and that has been difficult for the man's three sons, one...
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Consumer advocates are criticizing a change made by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the Republican megabill this week that would stop states from regulating artificial intelligence in order to bring it in line with the reconciliation process.The House's version of the $4 trillion budget package, passed last month, contained a sneaky provision that would bar...
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I'm 79 years old today.I'm spending most of my time with people 50 years younger — my graduate students, my colleagues at Inequality Media Civic Action, and young people to whom I give lectures and seminars.We communicate over a vast chasm of half a century. They have no direct memories of Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt, the Vietnam War,...
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Author and educator Margaret McMullan sounded the alarm in The Bulwark about a new Republican-written law in Mississippi that intends to abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, which is written so broadly that it would effectively make teaching about the Holocaust impossible.The legislation, called the Requiring Efficiency For Our...
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A key operative in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency resigned on Tuesday, Wired reported. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who joined DOGE after graduating from high school, became an internet meme because of his nickname, "Big Balls." He was part of the DOGE inner circle, according to Wired, and was given multiple federal laptops to...
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Iran's government is trolling President Donald Trump by announcing its nuclear program is once again operational just days after the president ordered a strike on three of the country's nuclear facilities, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday evening."Two days after America controversially joined Israel to attack Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the core...
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On the final episode of Sidebar, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and JM Rieger breakdown the shaky ceasefire between Iran and Israel – and whether it will hold. And having decided to enter the conflict, President Trump is now trying to play peacemaker.Then, the crew breaks down Trump's stunning turn of fortune...
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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) tried to deflect on CNN when confronted with newly revealed intelligence that President Donald Trump's strike on Iranian nuclear sites barely affected the viability of their nuclear program — a report the White House has vehemently denied, even while admitting this is the assessment of the Defense Intelligence...
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed Tuesday that his shock firing wasn't the last of his dealings with the powerful Murdoch family.Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch reportedly fired Carlson — arguably the network's biggest star — over his conspiratorial coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in which he blamed...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified on Tuesday that, were it not for President Donald Trump's tariffs, they would have felt comfortable dropping interest rates. Speaking to the House Financial Services Committee, Powell said, "If you just look at the basic data and don't look at the forecast, you would say that we would've continued...
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President Donald Trump unleashed a four-letter-word tirade on Tuesday morning after reports surfaced that Israel had violated the ceasefire agreement brokered just 24 hours earlier. The episode also exposed that Trump is terrified of looking like another F word when it comes to the Iran-Israel conflict, according to Sky News correspondent James...
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After several lawmakers backed war power resolutions to check President Donald Trump's ability to declare war – a power constitutionally reserved for Congress – Trump ally and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Tuesday that he believes such checks themselves are "unconstitutional.""Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War...
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As Republican lawmakers race to pass President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill” by July 4, some of its supporters are giving dire warnings if it fails, like Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who on Tuesday warned that the economy would crash like "a fat guy on a seesaw” were the bill's tax cuts – largely enjoyed by the wealthiest Americans –...
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The Senate will be voting on the "One Big, Beautiful bill” beginning Friday, according to an exclusive report from Axios. While speaking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), he told the outlet he is confident the spending bill will make Trump's Fourth of July deadline. "I think we get on it, and then we will plow through, and we'll get...
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President Trump said Israel and Iran have agreed to what he called a "complete and total" ceasefire. It comes after Iran retaliated against an American attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Nancy Cordes and Debora Patta have details, and retired Lt. Gen. Mark Weatherington joins to give insight on the conflict.
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State lawmakers are calling on Congress to abandon a moratorium on regulating artificial intelligence that's included in President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act."The moratorium would prevent states from regulating AI for a decade. Tech companies have lobbied for the moratorium to give them room to continue developing advanced AI...
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President Donald Trump is falling further underwater with the American public after bombing Iran's nuclear sites over the weekend. The New Republic's Greg Sargent noted in his Tuesday column that the post-bomb polls are being released, showing that Americans don't trust Trump to handle the attack appropriately. But for those who spent decades of...
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President Donald Trump named some of his top supporters to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, or HSAC, and the group includes former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox.In an announcement on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security revealed that Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had made the...
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his GOP colleagues on Tuesday that they should stop worrying so much about the rising tide of constituents protesting the planned Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts for the wealthy.The speech came during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, reported by Punchbowl News'...
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In a Tuesday appearance on Theo Von's "This Past Weekend" podcast, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recounted a bizarre phone call with President Donald Trump last year in which the then-presidential candidate gave his condolences for the passing of Massie's wife."That's a hard one, that's a very hard one,” Trump told Massie over the phone...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has become a thorn in President Donald Trump's side as the president attempts to usher his spending and tax bill through Congress. Known as the "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act," the megabill could make wide-ranging changes to U.S. fiscal policy if it is passed. The bill seeks to extend Trump's tax cuts from his first...
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The Defense Intelligence Agency is disputing President Donald Trump's assessment that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated," CNN reported Tuesday. Now that the White House is trying to spin the news, press secretary Karoline Leavitt is drawing ridicule from online critics.In a statement to CNN, Leavitt claimed, "This alleged assessment is...
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When the House passed President Donald Trump's signature budget legislation known as "the big, beautiful bill," just two Republicans voted in opposition. But after supporting the measure that included cuts to Medicaid, several moderate Republicans now say they don't want to so again.NOTUS spoke with several lawmakers Tuesday who are backing away...
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As New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday to vote on the final day of the city's Democratic mayoral primary, support for democratic socialist state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is surging and billionaire backers of disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo are in panic mode, with some even threatening to leave the nation's largest city should Mamdani...
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The day before Brittany Watts miscarried at home in Warren, Ohio, medical staff at Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital told Watts that her nearly 21-week-old fetus had no chance of survival. And without treatment, neither would she.On that, Watts' attorneys and those representing the hospital she is now suing agree.But Watts still ended up in...
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A new report obtained by CNN from the Pentagon's intelligence division concluded that President Donald Trump's strike on Iran only set back the country's nuclear program by months.Sources briefed on the report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, told CNN that it drastically undercut Trump's claim that the facilities had been...
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President Donald Trump's administration had the FBI focused on rounding up immigrants, leaving things like counter-terrorism on the back burner. After Iran threatened to tap "sleeper cells" inside the United States, the FBI is now scrambling to refocus efforts on national security. According to NBC News, four sources said, "the FBI is reassigning...
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Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their golden retriever Gilbert will lie in state on Friday at the Capitol. Rep. Hortman and her husband were killed on June 14 in a "politically motivated assassination.”Hortman will be the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol. The public may pay their respects from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m....
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An internet meme making fun of Vice President JD Vance was reportedly enough probable cause for the Department of Homeland Security to deny a Norwegian tourist entry into the United States.Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) posted the meme to social media, writing, "Would be a shame if this picture spread again. Man 'refused entry into US' as...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) fact-checked Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) after he claimed President Donald Trump's approval rating was "soaring."During a House DOGE Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Crockett blasted Republicans for "following one person" instead of listening to voters."The reason that people like me say things like y'all are in a cult is...
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CNN's Dana Bash expressed her shock over President Donald Trump's latest flip-flop on the question of regime change in Iran.Trump made his recent comments aboard Air Force One Tuesday, en route to the NATO summit in The Hague."I want you to listen to something else that the president said, and this is about regime change," Bash said to...
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to shelve an effort to impeach President Donald Trump.The effort failed by a vote of 344-79.Filed Tuesday morning by U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-TX), the article of impeachment called for Trump's removal primarily over his order to strike Iran last weekend, which Green called unconstitutional due...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Donald Trump's effort to negotiate a ceasefire between Iran and Israel could be "a step backward."During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Graham said he was not optimistic about the ceasefire."I want to praise President Trump and his team for Operation Midnight Hammer," Graham said. "As to the...
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A viral TikTok video shared an intense family debate between former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz and his mother, revealing a behind-the-scenes disagreement over President Donald Trump's foreign policy — and some direct warnings.In the leaked conversation — apparently recorded by somebody sitting behind Gaetz on a plane — the former...
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Right-wing strategist and commentator Erick Erickson slammed President Donald Trump's most loyal MAGA supporters on X Tuesday, along with Trump's left-wing opponents, for taking extreme isolationist perspectives on the conflict with Iran.The president ordered a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend, and is now trying to manifest a...
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Congressional Democrats fumed Tuesday after the Trump administration abruptly canceled its scheduled classified briefing to bring the House of Representatives up to speed on President Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities without authorization.No follow-up date was provided, according to reports.Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) posted a...
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After announcing a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Iran, President Donald Trump has another plan for peace in the Middle East — a trade deal. "China can now continue to purchase Oil from Iran. Hopefully, they will be purchasing plenty from the U.S., also," Trump wrote on his social media network, Truth Social. "It was my Great Honor...
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President Donald Trump is planning a victory tour for his "one, big, beautiful” spending bill, which hasn't passed the Senate, according to an exclusive report from Axios. The outlet's source said the countrywide tour will come "shortly after” Trump's July 4 deadline for the bill. Both President Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have...
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President Donald Trump stumbled through a bizarre press conference aboard Air Force One Tuesday, apparently confusing potential terror attacks with storm systemsResponding to questions about possible Iranian retaliation following recent strikes on nuclear sites, Trump launched into a confusing critique that appeared to conflate terrorist "sleeper...
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A top Trump official on Monday announced a plan to end a rule that protects tens of millions of acres in the National Forest System and which would clear the way for road development and timber production on those lands—news that elicited alarm from conservation and environmental groups.U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that...
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President Donald Trump's demand that the "one big, beautiful bill” needs to be on his desk by July 4th will set the public against the Republican Party, according to GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK). Her remarks were made to The Guardian's Chris Stein, who reported that the bill iwas taking up "much of the Senate's focus right now.”"It's all about...
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The U.S. and Iran have had a tense relationship for decades — but when did that begin? This week, we feature our very first episode about an event from August 1953 — when the CIA helped to overthrow Iran's prime minister.This episode originally ran as Four Days in August.
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Senior Justice Department official Emile Bove told lawyers under him that he was willing to ignore court orders to ensure President Donald Trump got what he wanted, a whistleblower letter to the Senate said.Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer, has been nominated to a federal judgeship, requiring Senate confirmation. Among those in opposition is a...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for breaking the rules of parliamentary procedure while chairing the House DOGE subcommittee.At a hearing on Tuesday, Greene spoke out of turn after a Democrat slammed President Donald Trump."No one loves veterans more than President Trump, and he's made that apparent,"...
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Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) brought her six-month-old baby, Sam, with her to question Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the agency's independence from politics Tuesday, and it drove MAGA world insane.MAGA political commentator Gunther Eagleman posted on X, "I'll say this for the people in the back. If you are ELECTED, then do your...
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday refused to rule out retaliation against hundreds of National Institutes of Health scientists over a joint letter signed and delivered in protest of HHS cuts and layoffs.Testifying in front of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Health in Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep....
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said last week the state's Republican Party ”made a bad decision” by endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy for governor last month. "The party exists to win elections, and it's not a pretty game,” Yost said Friday during a City Club of Cleveland forum. "I'm used to getting bruised by the political process. This was just a...
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U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries shocked war opponents Monday when he told reporters he had not looked at a bipartisan resolution that would require congressional approval for military action against Iran.As U.S. President Donald Trump has beat the drums for war with Iran in recent weeks, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY)...
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Donald Trump Jr. suggested that the Nobel Committee was guilty of racism after his father was not awarded a Peace Prize, but former President Barack Obama was."Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Donald Trump," Trump complained Tuesday on X.Earlier the same day, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) nominated Trump's...
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A nuclear policy expert laughed off the Trump administration's claim that the U.S. completely "obliterated" Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities that could be turned into nuclear weapons.After the U.S. military dropped a payload of ground penetrating bombs on Iran Saturday, President Donald Trump claimed, "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities...
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Donald Trump's desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize took a major step backward when the Ukrainian lawmaker who nominated the U.S. president abruptly withdrew his recommendation.Newsweek reported Tuesday that Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign committee who nominated Trump last November, said he had "lost any sort of faith...
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Why does he do it? Why does Ohio's former U.S. senator, hopeful heir to the MAGA throne, keep damning himself with snarky provocations and self-evident lies? How difficult is it for JD Vance to be respectful, instead of derogatory, honest instead of glibly deceitful?Every time the vice-president is before an open mic he seems to revert to cutting...
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at President Donald Trump in an X post after he called her "one of the dumbest people in Congress” for demanding his impeachment. "Mr. President, don't take your anger out on me - I'm just a silly girl.” Ocasio-Cortez said. "Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and...
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Recently, I looked at the importance of our government embracing free speech and not trying to stifle it or intimidate (or deport) people for unpopular political writings. Today, let's examine the flip side of that argument: hate speech, the power and danger of hate itself, and how we defeat it as Trump tries to use it to manipulate us.Hate is...
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Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) repeated his call to remove Medicaid cuts from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill."We've got 1.3 million people, Steve, who are on Medicaid, including hundreds of thousands of kids," Hawley said of Missouri during a Tuesday interview with MAGA influencer Steve Bannon. "Most of these people are not folks who are...
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A visibly frustrated lawmaker tried to find out why Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has allegedly avoided legitimate public review of his policy decisions on vaccines.According to the Harvard School of Public Health, Kennedy's actions on vaccines since taking the helm of HHS, include launching a government study on autism...
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Update: I'm told that the following message, which I received earlier today, purporting to be from Liz Cheney, is a hoax. She didn't send it. It's an excellent and important message nonetheless. (Several of you say it originated with Dr. Pru Lee.)When she was in Congress, I disagreed with almost everything she said and every vote she made. But on...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continued her spat with Fox News host Mark Levin, who is Jewish, by warning him that "Jesus will return.""MTG, God are you stupid," Levin wrote on Monday night after the pair argued over bombing Iran. "And you keep banging your head against the wall. Thankfully, POTUS ignored you and hit the Iranian nuclear sites....
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President Donald Trump is on Air Force One Tuesday morning, en route to the Netherlands for a NATO summit. He spent his flight time launching personal attacks on Truth Social."Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the 'dumbest' people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have...
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President Donald Trump is facing renewed impeachment efforts following a filing Tuesday from U.S. Rep Al Green (D-TX), who accused the president of having "devolved democracy into authoritarianism” by bypassing Congress in striking Iran last weekend."In starting his illegal and unconstitutional war with Iran without the constitutionally-mandated...
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President Donald Trump decreed on his Truth Social platform Tuesday morning that all Republicans must stay in D.C. until his "big, beautiful bill" passes."Now that we have made PEACE abroad, we must finish the job here at home by passing 'THE GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,' and getting the Bill to my desk, ASAP," wrote Trump. "It will be a Historic...
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Longtime Donald Trump ally and failed congressional candidate Laura Loomer had a meltdown on Tuesday over the current state of the New York City mayoral primary which, despite a crowded field, has largely come down to two candidates: disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim candidate affiliated with the Democratic...
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The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has plans for an Everglades detention center literally guarded by alligators and pythons—and Kristi Noem's cash-strapped Department of Homeland Security is making it a priority.Noem, whose department was accused earlier this month of "spending like drunken sailors" after going $1 billion over...
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In the Georgia political world, reaction to U.S. military attacks against three nuclear sites in Iran fell mostly, but not entirely, along party lines.President Donald Trump announced the strikes Saturday night, calling them "a spectacular military success.”The intervention into the war between Iran and Israel stoked fear of reprisal against U.S....
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Just weeks after a massive firing blitz throughout government departments, the Trump administration has launched a hiring spree aimed at bringing back thousands of positions, according to a CNN report. "There are time bombs all over the place in the federal government because of this,” Elaine Kamarck, the director of the Center for Effective...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) announced that she has dropped out of a key House ranking member race because Democrats wanted a different "style of leadership."On Tuesday, Crockett announced she was dropping out of the race for ranking member of the House Oversight Committee."It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what...
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