Month: July 2025

The Senate passed a 1,016-page measure Tuesday that enacts major planks in President Trump’s second-term agenda, from tax cuts to Medicaid regulations, green energy limits to the debt limit. The upper chamber worked on the bill for weeks and approved it after 27 hours of debate and Vice President Vance’s tie-breaking vote. It now moves…
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It makes the rich get richer, kicks down the poorest, helps ICE detain Americans, kills clean energy jobs and throws grandma out of her nursing home. 🇺🇸

Senate Republicans on Tuesday jammed through a major package advancing President Trump’s tax priorities, paid for by a host of cuts to the social safety net, including Medicaid and food assistance. The bill also slashes green energy and includes changes to student loan programs. The nearly 1,000-page package, released Friday, has undergone notable changes since…
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Democrats considered potential candidates for the 2028 presidential election quickly pounced on Vice President Vance for casting the tiebreaking vote to pass President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill in the Senate. From Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic hopefuls placed blame squarely on Vance, who could launch his…
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The president’s brutal comment comes amid concerns from law and policy experts about the facility.

The Trump administration and Florida leaders partnered together to build a detention facility on a remote site nestled in the state’s swampy Everglades to hold migrants awaiting deportation. The site, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” opened Tuesday with soft-sided holding units for hundreds of detainees in the coming days through a partnership in which the federal government…
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President Trump praised his former primary rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) during his visit to the state’s new migrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday.  “Ron, I’d like to thank you personally,” Trump told DeSantis at a roundtable event.  “You’re my friend, you’ll always be my friend, and we may have some…
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A record-high share of American voters are content with the work of Republican lawmakers, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll. In the survey, conducted in late June, 36 percent of registered voters approve of the job Republicans in Congress are doing — the highest level recorded since pollsters began asking the question in 2011. The latest…
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President Trump on Tuesday advised would-be escapees from Florida’s new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility to zigzag when trying to evade reptilian predators lurking in the Everglades. “Don’t run in a straight line; run like this,” the president said to reporters, waving his hand from side-to-side, before he left the White House for Florida on…
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Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Tuesday railed against Republicans who are backing President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, accusing them of avoiding real action to tackle the nation’s financial woes. The legislation passed the Senate around noon Tuesday with a tiebreaking vote from Vice President Vance after a marathon vote-a-rama session, but…
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“So tempting to escalate this,” the billionaire said in response.

“It objectively does not” do what the president claims it will, said Daniel Dale.

For poorer countries, “the resulting shock would be similar in scale to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict,” researchers wrote.

The massive $4 trillion package includes tax cuts for mostly wealthy people and historic cuts to safety net programs like Medicaid and federal food assistance.

Factors including the size and remoteness of its location could mean abysmal conditions and limited access to counsel.

Charlie Sykes also warned of what may happen if and when the legislation passes.

Stuart Stevens made a damning prediction about Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law.

The Trump White House press secretary’s enthusiastic description of the new immigration detention center was slammed as “sickening” and “deplorable.”

It may end up “dead in the water,” said the newspaper’s conservative editorial board.

The two former friends recently renewed their feud on social media.

A new memo urges the department’s Civil Division to make denaturalization a key focus.

The president unveiled a new line of scents at an exorbitant price.

The president basically asked to speak to the manager at AT&T — not that he knew who that was.