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Senate Republicans Rush to Overcome Internal Clashes

June 30, 2025 at 10:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republican party leaders are rushing to overcome lingering internal fights over President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package as Democrats launch attacks to exploit the divisions,” Bloomberg reports.

“Senate Republicans were still at odds Monday over how much to cut Medicaid and other social safety-net programs and how rapidly to end Biden-era clean energy tax breaks as Democrats gained the chance Monday to force votes on amendments to the package.”

“Democrats, locked out of power in Washington, are aiming to offer amendments during a marathon voting session to exploit the infighting and make the GOP goal of getting holdouts to back the bill as soon as tonight more difficult.”

Trump Claims He Has a Buyer for TikTok

June 30, 2025 at 10:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump said that he had found a buyer for the TikTok short-video app, which he described as a group of “very wealthy people” whose identities he will reveal “in about two weeks,” the South China Morning Post reports.

He added: “I think I’ll need probably China’s approval. I think President Xi will probably do it.”

What’s in the Bill?

June 30, 2025 at 9:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Washington Post’s most-read article this morning details what’s in the Senate version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

David Axelrod notes that Republicans are “racing to ram this bill through” because “the longer it goes… the closer you look… the uglier it gets.”


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Outlook for U.S. Economy Remains Uncertain

June 30, 2025 at 9:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“U.S. stocks have strongly rebounded after a rough start to the year, even as the outlook for the world’s largest economy and its interest rates remains as uncertain as ever,” CNBC reports.

Said Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic: “The story there is that we are really starting to hear clear signs that they’re expecting to raise prices, but how high and when that will happen is still quite unknown.”

Axios: Investors have moved into a post-tariff world.

Mike Collins Weighs Georgia Senate Bid

June 30, 2025 at 9:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) is inching closer to launching a Senate campaign as Republicans scramble to find a consensus candidate who can defeat Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Punchbowl News reports.

Trump Says Harvard Violated Students’ Civil Rights

June 30, 2025 at 9:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration informed Harvard University that its investigation found that it violated federal civil-rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, putting the federal funding of the nation’s oldest university further at risk,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The investigation is the latest in the battle between the White House and Harvard. The Trump administration has sought to make the wealthiest U.S. university exhibit A in its fight against liberal institutions it says didn’t take antisemitism and DEI concerns seriously.”

Quote of the Day

June 30, 2025 at 7:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“These inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.”

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), quoted by AL.com.

Democrats Plan New Organizing Push

June 30, 2025 at 7:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Democratic groups are launching a major organizing push Monday to attack Republicans’ signature bill this summer and prepare for the coming elections, an effort that will focus on voter registration and volunteer efforts to make their case to community groups not focused on politics,” the Washington Post reports.

“The new initiative is led by the Democratic National Committee, the state party chair association and Democrats’ House, Senate and gubernatorial campaign arms. It will ramp up the party’s activity ahead of this fall’s elections and the 2026 midterms, which will serve as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s second term and test Democrats’ ability to rebound.”

Senate Republicans May Still Not Have the Votes

June 30, 2025 at 7:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Senate Republicans said they expected to begin voting on amendments to the domestic policy bill at 9 a.m. Monday, after taking a break likely sometime after midnight, rather than working all night,” the New York Times reports.

“The decision not to move from debate straight into the so-called vote-a-rama, an hours-long series of votes on amendments, could indicate that Republican leaders are still struggling to lock in support.”

Washington Post: “The GOP is racing to push the mammoth budget proposal across Trump’s desk by a self-imposed July 4 deadline, but fissures remain within the party over the cuts to social benefit and anti-poverty programs and the bill’s growing price tag.”

Wall Street Journal: “If the Senate manages to pass the bill, getting the measure to Trump by Republicans’ self-imposed July 4 deadline would require another vote from the House. That might be challenging in that chamber as well, where Republicans have a narrow 220-212 majority and their initial version of the bill passed by just one vote last month.”

For members: A Few Thoughts on the “Big, Beautiful Bill”

Miller Directs Trump’s Policies on Immigration, Ivy League

June 30, 2025 at 7:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump White House is moving at a far faster clip in 2025 to remake the federal government and American life, in large part because Stephen Miller has put the agenda on steroids,” Bloomberg reports.

“Miller, 39, has amassed power and influence through nearly a decade in President Donald Trump’s orbit. Long seen as the driving force behind the West Wing’s immigration policies, Miller is now also leading the campaign to bend the nation’s top universities to Trump’s will.”

Trump Is Building National Citizenship System

June 30, 2025 at 7:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system,” NPR reports.

“The tool is designed to be used by state and local election officials to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.”

China’s Communist Party Has 100 Million Members

June 30, 2025 at 7:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Membership in China’s ruling Communist Party passed the 100 million mark, but the pace of growth slowed for the third straight year amid Beijing’s long-running push to rein in the party’s expansion,” Bloomberg reports.

How Zohran Mamdani Brought New Voters to the Polls

June 30, 2025 at 6:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Mr. Mamdani changed the electoral map. In the 14 days leading up to the registration deadline for the Democratic primary, about 37,000 people registered to vote, compared with about 3,000 people in the same period in 2021.”

“Mr. Mamdani’s campaign had focused on registering voters, and he also appears to have drawn thousands of voters to the primary who did not vote four years ago.”

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

June 30, 2025 at 6:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

ProPublica: “In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.”

“In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.”

“Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public.”

Trump to Visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

June 30, 2025 at 6:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Palm Beach Post: “Is President Donald Trump coming to the so-called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center Tuesday?”

“The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ‘VIP Movement Notification’ for Tuesday, July 1, for Ochopee, Fla. The alert is for a 30/10 NMR, which stands for a protective inner core radius of 10 nautical miles and an outer ring radius of 30 nautical miles.”

Accounting Gimmicks Could End Up Biting Republicans

June 30, 2025 at 6:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “There’s a dawning realization on the Hill that the procedural tricks being deployed by GOP leaders to get this thing done may someday come back to bite them. The Republicans’ use of the so-called current policy baseline — an accounting trick by which temporary tax cuts are made permanent without any apparent cost in the budget — could in theory be used in equally imaginative ways by a future Dem trifecta to enact high-cost policies like Medicare For All via reconciliation.”

Sahil Kapur: “If ‘current policy’ becomes the norm in reconciliation, one (very) hypothetical example of how Democrats could wield it: Pass a $10 trillion Medicare For All bill for 1 yr at a $1T sticker price and extend it permanently the next year at a $0 cost. All without nuking the filibuster.”

Elise Stefanik Opens Big Lead in GOP Primary

June 30, 2025 at 6:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rep. Elise Stefanik has a massive edge over other Republicans in a hypothetical party primary to take on Gov. Kathy Hochul next year, a new poll found,” the New York Post reports.

“Some 64% of Republicans would support Stefanik — while only 8% would back Hudson Valley Rep. Michael Lawler.”

Thom Tillis Unleashed

June 30, 2025 at 6:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “Tillis’ looming departure has instantly injected some fresh buzz into the political conversation in D.C; not least because we now have a second GOP senator (alongside Mitch McConnell) who clearly now gives — to be crude — no shits at all what Trump thinks.”

“Witness Tillis’ performance on the Senate floor last night, shredding Trump’s flagship legislation before the eyes of the world and even suggesting the president has been duped. The next 18 months in Tillis world may be quite a lot of fun.”

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