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#10 Senate Works Overnight as Marathon Voting Session Stretches on for Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ - CNN, Charlie Kirk, Good Lawgic/Nick Sortor, Kelly McCarty (Non-Bidenary), Satoshi Flipper/T, Marlene Motley, and justathought on X
A marathon voting session on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill is underway in the Senate and has stretched overnight into the early hours of Tuesday morning after a weekend of negotiations and delays. The vote-a-rama, an open-ended series of votes on amendments – some political, some substantive, started around 9:35 a.m. ET on Monday and is still going. The extended voting session provides an opportunity for Republicans to make any eleventh-hour adjustments to the package and for Democrats to push on GOP weak points in the bill and put their colleagues on the spot. Those politically tough votes are likely to provide fodder for campaign ads down the line...
#9 Trump Suggests DOGE Look at Subsidies for Musk’s Companies to Save Money - Reuters, M Kucala MS, MBA, Fair Deal Dan, TobySkyline (Human), and Proud Elephant/My Info Richard Glenn on X
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the government efficiency department should review the subsidies Tesla CEO Elon Musk's companies have received in order to save money, reigniting a war of words between the world's most powerful man and its richest. Trump's remarks on Tuesday came after Musk renewed his criticism of the sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, vowing to unseat lawmakers who supported it after campaigning on limiting government spending...#8 Musk Suggests He Might Support Primary Challenges Against Republicans Who Support Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” - Joe Walsh for CBS News, Zero Sympathy, Patrick, Daniel McAdams/Ron Paul/Groypocalypse Now, Internet Ethics, and Elon Musk/Bryce Lipscomb on X
Elon Musk ramped up his criticism of the massive tax and domestic policy package working its way through the Senate on Monday, suggesting he could support primary challenges against Republicans who vote for the Trump-backed bill."Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!" the billionaire and onetime Trump ally wrote in a post on X. "And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth." In a separate post, Musk said he will support Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who voted against the bill when it passed the House, leading Mr. Trump to back a primary challenge. Anti-Israel and anti-Trump actor John Cusack expressed hope last Friday that Iran will get a nuclear weapon. In a post shared to X, the actor said Iran should get a nuclear weapon so that it can deter the U.S. and Israel’s aggression in the Middle East. "Iran will surely rush to get a nuclear weapon- and they should get one," he wrote, adding, "it’s the only way to deter US and Israel from bombing every country in Middle East." Cusack published his post almost a week after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. military strikes on three major Iranian facilities believed to be developing nuclear weapons... Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Obama called the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.” Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization, created by President John F. Kennedy as a peaceful way of promoting U.S. national security by boosting goodwill and prosperity abroad. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered USAID absorbed into the State Department on Tuesday... An Iranian-linked hacking group has threatened to sell stolen emails from Donald Trump’s inner circle which it claims to have obtained during the 2024 election campaign. The hackers, who use the online pseudonym “Robert,” told Reuters they had around 100 gigabytes of emails taken from the accounts of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, longtime Trump ally and political consultant Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom the president paid to keep quiet about... On June 27th, the Supreme Court struck a significant blow against the tyranny of progressive federal district court judges who have used nationwide universal injunctions to tread on the authority of the Executive Branch. Multiple activist district court judges in mostly liberal jurisdictions have taken it upon themselves to bar the government from implementing President Trump’s executive orders anywhere in the nation. These judges have not limited the relief they granted only to the persons or entities who were parties to the original lawsuit. The universal injunctions were designed to provide relief to nonparties as well... The key Kentucky newsletter has reported that Nate Morris, a pro-Trump businessman who announced his candidacy for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) seat last week, is the “front-runner for a new era,” admitting they “may have underestimated Morris in our previous analysis.” The self-proclaimed “America First conservative” and founder of waste and recycling company Rubicon launched his campaign on Thursday with an announcement on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast and an eye-catching video ad featuring him “taking out the trash” left in his home state by McConnell...
#7 Far-Left Actor John Cusack Says Iran ‘Should Get’ Nukes to Protect Middle East From Us and Israel - Gabriel Hays for Fox News, DDM, MarTao, Gunther Eagleman, Kenny Combs, Cherie Currie/American AF/Todd LeComte
#6 Bush, Obama — and Singer Bono — Fault Trump’s Gutting of USAID on Agency’s Last Day - Ellen Knickmeyer for AP, What are you Saying?!, Elizabeth Lansing, The Detroit News, 13 News Now, and The Daily Guardian on X
#5 Trump Hit by Bombshell Threat From Hackers - Ewan Palmer for The Daily Beast, fluglehrer_neu, Cyber News, LEA Watch, Gijs Dekker, The, and Chenab Times on X
#4 North Korean Operatives and American Accomplices Accused in Massive Fraud That Infiltrated the Fortune 500 and Stole Millions - Amanda Gerut for Fortune, The Hacker News, anti weird, The Coin Republic, and CyberChick on X
Authorities announced a new crackdown on a sprawling international fraud ring involving North Korean IT workers, naming more than a dozen defendants in two new indictments, including New Jersey man Zhenxing “Danny” Wang. The indictment claims the scheme allegedly generated more than $5 million in illicit earnings and hundreds of thousands in fees for the U.S. conspirators. In a second indictment, four North Korean nationals have been charged with executing a sophisticated operation that generated nearly $1 million in stolen crypto. All told, law enforcement searched 29 suspected laptop farms across 16 states and seized 29 financial accounts allegedly used to launder money and digital assets...
#3 SCOTUS Curbs Abuse of Power by Activist District Court Judges - Joseph Klein for Front Page, MJ Muehl, Allen, DC_Draino/C3, Real America's Voice (RAV), and BrooklynDad_Defiant/Frostyduo on X
#2 Key Kentucky Newsletter Places Nate Morris as ‘Front-Runner’ in Senate Race - Olivia Rondeau for Breitbart, Charlie Kirk, Daniel Cameron, Gabe Guidarini, Smokahontas, and Andrew Surabian/Henry J. Gomez on X
#1 $15 Billion!? FBI Says It's Uncovered 'Largest Health Care Fraud' In American History - Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times on ZeroHedge, FBI Director Kash Patel/Dan Bongino/DOGEai, Walter Kurt, Timcast News, One America News, and Caroline on X
The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 30 said that almost $15 billion was reported in losses in the “largest health care fraud” investigation in U.S. history, with officials charging more than 300 people in connection with the alleged scheme. In a post on social media platform X, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote that $14.6 billion in losses were incurred, while $245 million was seized, as FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in a separate post on X that hundreds of people were charged in the case. “Public corruption will not be tolerated as the Director and I vigorously pursue bad actors who violated their oaths to all of us,” Bongino said, describing the case as the “largest healthcare fraud investigation” in the country’s history...
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7-year-old girl proves that it's not over until it's over - Massimo on X
