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11:50 AM ET, May 22, 2025

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New York Times:
Here are some of the changes to the House bill that passed on Thursday morning.  —  The early-morning vote was 215 to 214, mostly along party lines.  It was a crucial victory for what President Trump and Republicans are calling the “big, beautiful bill.”  —  A victory for House Republican …
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
The Deficit Is Unsettling Bond Traders.  Here's How That Affects the Economy.  —  The trade war has calmed down, but rising government borrowing costs pose a new worry  —  An economy facing possible indigestion from big increases in tariffs now is contending with a second headwind …
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House Republicans pass ‘big, beautiful bill’ after weeks of division  —  The sweeping measure heads to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to make changes.  —  House Republicans came together to pass their domestic-policy megabill early Thursday, after weeks of internal conflict …
New York Times:
The House Passed Trump's Megabill.  Bond Investors Are Worried.  —  Republicans brought the president's tax cuts one step closer to reality, but Wall Street remains on edge about the fiscal costs.  —  Bond investors squirm over the budget  —  House Republicans overcame bitter differences …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Republican Party's Populist Betrayal  —  There were lots of last-minute tweaks to the Big, Beautiful Bill the House passed this morning, but here, per the New York Times, is the most openly stupid one: … Happy Thursday.  —  Another Win for the Plutocrats  —  by Andrew Egger
Politico:
Why Warren Davidson voted against the House GOP megabill
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
House GOP leaders release changes to Trump agenda bill in bid to sway holdouts
New York Times:
Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
Discussion: Can We Still Govern?
NOTUS:
House Passes Trump's ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ After Legislative Mad Dash
New York Times:
2 Israeli Embassy Aides Are Fatally Shot Outside Event in Washington  —  The shooting occurred outside the Capital Jewish Museum.  A suspect shouted “Free, free Palestine” after he was taken into custody, officials said.  —  Two young Israeli Embassy aides were shot and killed outside …
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Maya Sweedler / Associated Press:
2 staff members of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC  —  Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said.
Rudy Chinchilla / NBC News:
Two Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead outside D.C.'s Capital Jewish Museum  —  The gunman shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested, law enforcement officials said.  —  Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead outside the district's Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Woman shot at CIA headquarters after crashing into gate … A woman was shot and wounded at CIA headquarters after crashing into a gate there early Thursday morning, NBC News reported.  —  The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC.
New York Times:
Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky Were Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in D.C. Shooting
The Guardian:
Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Washington DC Jewish museum
Associated Press:
Here's what we know about the DC shooting where 2 staff members of the Israeli Embassy were killed
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed.  Only a day before, he was a welding foreman …
Discussion: Magnolia Tribune and Newsweek
Paul Krugman:
Gaming Out a Sudden Stop  —  What happens if investors lose faith in America?  —  I used to be an economics ambulance-chaser — someone who raced around the world to wherever there was an interesting economic calamity.  And this international experience probably made me more sensitive …
ABC News:
Supreme Court says Oklahoma can't launch taxpayer-funded religious charter school  —  The court was deadlocked in the case, issuing a 4-4 ruling.  —  The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, April 7, 2025 in Washington.  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a rare deadlocked 4-4 ruling …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court deadlocks in dispute over effort to create first religious charter school
Robert Reich:
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king  —  I've been following with a mixture of dismay and disgust Trump's One Big Ugly Bill, soon to emerge from the House.  I'll report back to you on it.  —  But I want to alert you to one detail inside it that's especially alarming.
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:   The GOP's Chaotic Bid to Defang the Courts
New York Times:
Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers.  It Didn't.  —  During a meeting with South Africa's president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution.  A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
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ProPublica:
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging  —  The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration's trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock.
Discussion: New Republic
Financial Times:
BYD sells more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for first time  —  Chinese car group has been pushing to expand into overseas markets for past few years  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.  —  BYD has sold more electric vehicles …
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘The View’ Told to Tone Down Trump Bashing by ABC News Boss  —  COOL IT  —  Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Disney and ABC News have asked the hosts …
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Musk huddles with Energy and Commerce GOP  —  Elon Musk is meeting with House Energy and Commerce Republicans on Thursday morning to discuss energy issues and artificial intelligence, according to a person with direct knowledge of the confab.  It comes a day after the Trump ally and head …
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NBC News:
White House purges transcripts of Trump's remarks from its website  —  The White House told NBC News it has decided to post only videos.  There still is one transcript remaining online, however: Trump's inaugural address.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has removed official transcripts …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Thinks It Was ‘Stupid’ Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term.  He's Making Up for It  —  As the president mixes public service with personal profit, he's making the world safe for corruption  —  President Donald Trump will host a gathering of VIPs at his private golf resort outside Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
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New York Times:
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades  —  The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years.  —  The funding decreases touch virtually every area …
Steve Vladeck / One First:
Bonus 152: Judge Ho, Due Process, and “Disrespect”  —  Some thoughts on Judge Ho's rather galling claim that the Supreme Court “disrespect[ed]” the district court and the President in Friday's ruling in the “A.A.R.P. II” Alien Enemies Act case.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Welcome back to the weekly bonus content for “One First.”
NBC4 Washington:
Person shot and wounded on CIA property … A person was shot on CIA property in McLean, Virginia, early Thursday, authorities say.  —  Fairfax County officers responded to the 900 block of Dolley Madison Boulevard at about 4 a.m. to help CIA police with traffic control, county police said.
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds fraud conviction of government contractor  —  The case in Philadelphia involved Alpha Painting & Construction and a project manager, Stamatios Kousisis, who was convicted of fraud in 2018.  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a government contractor found guilty …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He's Making With Jony Ive  —  Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman gave his staff a preview Wednesday of the devices …
Charles Franklin / Homepage:
New Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds strong support for authority of courts in cases involving president  — The U.S. president must obey rulings by either the Supreme Court or lower federal courts; majorities oppose call to impeach judges  — Majority say President Trump lacks power …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 
 
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