Republican Medicaid Cuts Already Shaking Up Midterms
“Senate Republicans have yet to finalize their version of President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy proposal, but GOP lawmakers up for reelection in 2026 are bracing for the political impact of the bill’s Medicaid cuts,” CNN reports.
Eric Trump Says He Might Run for President
“Eric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father’s second term in the White House comes to an end,” The Guardian reports.
Said Trump: “The real question is: ‘Do you want to drag other members of your family into it?… Would I want my kids to live the same experience over the last decade that I’ve lived?”
He added: “You know, if the answer was yes, I think the political path would be an easy one, meaning, I think I could do it. And by the way, I think other members of our family could do it too.”
Morale Craters at the State Department
“The Trump administration’s plan for mass layoffs at the State Department has left much of the workforce exasperated and embittered, tanking morale as extra demands were made to assist U.S. citizens seeking to flee the Middle East amid Israel’s war with Iran,” the Washington Post reports.
Senate GOP Pushes to Hit Trump’s Megabill Deadline
Wall Street Journal: “Senators said they were aiming for an initial procedural vote as early as Saturday afternoon, which would let them pass the bill sometime Sunday. Before that, they are aiming to release the final text of the bill and ensure that it can work procedurally in the fast-track process they are using for the party-line legislation.”
“As of Friday evening, Senate Republicans didn’t appear to have enough votes to begin debate.”
Politico: Senate slated to take first vote on megabill Saturday.
Axios: Senate plunges into do-or-die moment on “big, beautiful bill.”
For members: Republicans Push Forward with Deeply Unpopular Bill
Trump’s Head-Spinning Foreign Policy
“President Trump hasn’t sounded much like Donald Trump in recent days,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“He said the U.S. needed to attack Iran over a growing nuclear threat, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wasn’t ripping off America and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was an impediment to ending the war in Ukraine. It was a remarkable shift for a president who said he would extract the U.S. from foreign entanglements, once called NATO obsolete and often has avoided criticizing Moscow.”
“But Trump’s supporters and critics alike said they didn’t expect the new version of Trump to last for long. By Friday afternoon, Trump said he wouldn’t lift sanctions on Iran after suggesting earlier in the week that he would do so. Minutes later, he said he was canceling trade talks with Canada.”
U.S. Economy Shrugs Off Trade War and Soldiers On
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump is still issuing tariff threats, consumer spending is weakening, and the Mideast is in turmoil. So why did the S&P 500 hit a record high Friday?”
“Investors may not think the economy is taking off, but they are probably relieved that the worst-case scenarios feared in recent months haven’t come to pass. Trump’s tariffs, deportations, and cuts to the federal bureaucracy have bent the economy but haven’t broken it.”
CNN: Trump’s trade deals are stalling out at the worst possible time.
Senate Blocks War Powers Resolution
“The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic resolution that would have forced President Trump to go to Congress for approval of further military action against Iran, dealing a blow to efforts to rein in his war powers,” the New York Times reports.
Another Check on Trump’s Power Fades
“The Supreme Court ruling barring judges from swiftly blocking government actions, even when they may be illegal, is yet another way that checks on executive authority have eroded as President Trump pushes to amass more power,” the New York Times reports.
“The decision on Friday, by a vote of 6 to 3, will allow Mr. Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship to take effect in some parts of the country — even though every court that has looked at the directive has ruled it unconstitutional. That means some infants born to undocumented immigrants or foreign visitors without green cards can be denied citizenship-affirming documentation like Social Security numbers.”
“But the diminishing of judicial authority as a potential counterweight to exercises of presidential power carries implications far beyond the issue of citizenship.”
CNN: Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on power of judges and birthright citizenship.
Don Bacon Won’t Run Again
Rep. Don Bacon, the five-term Nebraska Republican who represents a centrist district in a deeply red state, will not seek re-election, handing Democrats a prime opportunity to pick up a seat in the closely divided House, the New York Times reports.
Trump Shrugs Off Trade Deal Deadline
“President Donald Trump said Friday he may not stick to the deadline in early July when massive U.S. tariffs are set to snap back into effect on a slew of countries,” CNBC reports.
Said Trump: “No, we can do whatever we want. We could extend it. We could make it shorter.”
U.S. Did Not Use Bunker Busters on Key Iran Nuclear Site
“The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the U.S. top general told senators during a briefing on Thursday,” CNN reports.
Trump Calls Mamdani a ‘Communist’
President Trump called New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “a communist,” and said the Big Apple will become “a communistic city” if he is elected mayor in November, CNBC reports.
Said Trump: “I can’t believe that’s happening. That’s a terrible thing for our country, by the way.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“If you look at the end of the Civil War — the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day — was it 1869? Or whatever.”
— President Trump, speaking to reporters.
GOP Toils to Pass a Bill With Plenty to Hate
“As Congress inches toward final action on the sweeping domestic policy package that President Trump is calling the ‘big, beautiful bill,’ it has come down to this: Republicans are preparing to back a measure that they fear gives their constituents little to love and lots to hate,” the New York Times reports.
“The struggle Republicans are experiencing in securing votes for the legislation emanates from the fact that they are being asked to embrace steep cuts to the government safety net that could hit their states and districts hard — all in the service of extending existing tax cuts that don’t offer much in the way of new benefits for most Americans.”
For members: Republicans Push Forward With Deeply Unpopular Bill
Trump Halts Possible Sanction Relief for Iran
“President Trump said Friday he halted plans to potentially ease sanctions on Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei downplayed the success of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program,” Axios reports.
“Trump and his advisers had hoped Iran would agree to a meeting with the U.S. next week, where the White House planned to offer incentives — including limited sanctions relief — to jumpstart negotiations.”
“But a defiant video message Thursday by Khamenei — who declared victory over Israel and claimed Iran had dealt the U.S. a “slap in the face” — derailed that effort.”
Trump Calls Off Trade Talks with Canada
“President Donald Trump abruptly announced Friday he was ending trade talks with Canada, objecting to the country’s new digital services tax, which is set to take effect Monday,” the Washington Post reports.
Wrote Trump: “Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period.”
New York Times: “The president’s threat to end talks with one of the country’s largest trading partners could unleash chaos on both sides of the border. Tariffs are taxes on imports, the burden for which could fall heaviest on U.S. companies and consumers.”
“Still, Mr. Trump has frequently brandished imminent plans to penalize other countries with high levies, only to later back down, especially once markets panic over the potential interruptions to commerce.”
University of Virginia President Resigns
“The University of Virginia’s president, James Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside in order to help resolve a Justice Department inquiry into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,” the New York Times reports.
“For the leader of a major public university to take such an extraordinary step demonstrates President Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.”
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