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Republicans gear up to sell their ‘big, beautiful bill’ back home

Senate Republicans are quickly shifting into sales mode as they attempt to pitch voters on their mammoth tax and spending bill in the face of an onslaught of Democratic attacks. Republicans accomplished a herculean lift in getting the “big, beautiful bill” to…

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Trump administration takes blows from Epstein conspiracy community it once embraced

The Trump administration is stumbling as it seeks to unwind new details about the Jeffrey Epstein case, infuriating its key boosters with a memo concluding the deceased financier was not murdered and did not keep a list of clients. Figures in the Trump admini…

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GOP faces ‘big, beautiful’ blowback risk on ObamaCare subsidies cuts

Medicaid cuts have received the lion’s share of attention from critics of Republicans’ sweeping tax cuts legislation, but the GOP’s decision not to extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies could have a much more immediate impact ahead of next year’s midterms.  Ext…

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Supreme Court allows Trump to resume mass layoffs; Jackson dissents from ‘senseless’ decision

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy, for now. The court in its unsigned ruling said Trump’s February executive order directing federal agencies to …

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Trump says he commandeered Rubio’s clock as part of Cabinet Room makeover

Time apparently was of the essence for President Trump as he redesigned the Cabinet Room — the commander in chief says he swiped a “gorgeous” clock from Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office to instead use in the White House.  A Tuesday Cabinet meeting took…

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Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins believes that Medicaid work requirements and artificial intelligence will help bolster the nation’s farming workforce, while President Trump has been weighing exemptions for undocumented migrants working on farms.

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Bondi explains missing minute in Epstein video

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday sought to tamp down outrage on the right over the Justice Department’s memo on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein released this week. The Justice Department and FBI on Monday released a roughly 11-hour video from outside…

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Trump goes off on questions surrounding Epstein: ‘This creep?’

President Trump expressed exasperation on Tuesday at questions about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Epstein did not have a “client list” and confirmed he died by suicide. During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday…

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Senate GOP not happy with Trump beatdown of Tillis

Republican senators aren’t happy about how President Trump treated Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), whom the president blasted last week on social media after Tillis said he wouldn’t vote for Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Tillis is highly regarded among colleagues…

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Judge temporarily blocks Planned Parenthood ‘defunding’ in Trump megabill

A federal judge on Monday granted Planned Parenthood’s request to temporarily halt Medicaid funding cuts to the group’s health centers under a provision of Republicans’ new tax and spending package.  U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling marks the first…