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1:55 PM ET, June 26, 2025

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U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget:
Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill”  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Parliamentarian again advised that several provisions in the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.
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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.
NPR:
Medicaid changes don't meet Senate rules in ‘big, beautiful bill’ says parliamentarian  —  Senate Republicans hit a major setback in their race to pass a massive tax and spending package on Thursday, as a chamber official ruled against a key provision to get the conference on board to vote for the plan by week's end.
Discussion: Fox News, New York Times and Raw Story
Axios:
Senate parliamentarian blocks Medicaid changes in “big, beautiful bill”  —  The Senate parliamentarian ruled out the Medicaid provider tax provision in the “one big, beautiful bill,” according to Senate Democrats. … - For Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), it removes …
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court lets South Carolina block Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Planned Parenthood's challenge to South Carolina's attempt to bar the organization from participating in its Medicaid program, clearing the way for the state to strip the organization of Medicaid funds.
Discussion: NPR, HotAir, Axios, Townhall and RedState
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Trump's Bill Slashes the Safety Net That Many Republican Voters Rely on
Oriana González / NOTUS:   Republican Lawmakers Call for Senate Parliamentarian to Be Fired Over Reconciliation Rulings
Carter Sherman / The Guardian:
Supreme court paves way for South Carolina and other states to defund Planned Parenthood
Discussion: Politico
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Key Medicaid provision in Trump's big tax cut and spending bill is found to violate Senate rules
Politico:
Capitol agenda: Thune's megabill teeters on the brink
Discussion: Semafor, Raw Story and The Hill
HuffPost:
Senate Parliamentarian Deals Huge Blow To Critical Part Of GOP's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators push back hard on Medicaid cuts, endangering Trump bill
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship  —  The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.  —  On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist …
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Elizabeth Spiers / New Republic:
Mamdani Did All the Things the Establishment Hates. He Won Anyway.
Associated Press:
Democrats fret about national fallout after Mamdani stuns in New York City
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   It's Mamdani Time!  —  The upside potential and downside risk of the new Democratic party.
New York Times:
Mamdani's Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews
Renee Anderson / CBS News:
Andrew Cuomo weighing his options in NYC mayoral election and potential independent bid
New York Times:
Iran's Khamenei Makes First Public Comments Since Cease-Fire With Israel  —  Supreme leader strikes defiant tone in a video statement, after not being heard of or seen publicly in days.  —  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Iranians for what he described as a victory …
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Politico:
Hegseth defends Iran strikes, slams media over intel leak
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Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Financial Times:
Early intelligence suggests Iran's uranium largely intact, European officials say  —  Preliminary assessments suggest Tehran was able to move much of its stockpile  —  Preliminary intelligence assessments provided to European governments indicate that Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile …
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New York Times:
In New Assessment, C.I.A. Chief Says U.S. Strikes ‘Severely Damaged’ Iranian Program
Paul Krugman:
Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.
Discussion: The Bulwark
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
What It Took To Win  —  The old saw goes that politics is the art of the possible, but it often seems like the art of the impossible: putting together winning coalitions that “objectively” seem to defy logic—or at least, the logic of the pundits.)  My favorite example of this is Trump managing …
Wall Street Journal:
The Paramount Risk in Settling Trump's Lawsuit: ‘Bribery’?  —  Any settlement during merger review will be a Democratic target.  —  An error occurred.  Please try again later.  —  Months after Paramount reportedly began talks to settle President Trump's false-advertising claim against CBS, the company is still holding fast.
Pew Research Center:
Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.
Ryan Quinn / Inside Higher Ed:
Scholars Continue Lambasting Higher Ed While Trump Upends It  —  This year's Heterodox Academy conference—the first since Republicans retook the White House—featured similar complaints about academe as in years past.  But the federal government's sweeping interventions raised questions about what's really warranted.
Discussion: Deseret News
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Trump Organization scraps ‘made in the USA’ tag for its gold T1 smartphone … The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Crockett questions Melania Trump's reported ‘Einstein visa’: 'The math ain't mathin"  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) questioned first lady Melania Trump's reported “Einstein visa” inata House hearing Wednesday.  —  “Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady, a model …
Dan Katz / TPR:
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court.  His family is suing.  —  A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders / Washington Post:
Yes, I support Trump's big, beautiful bill.  Just not this one part.  —  Governors are leading on smart AI protections.  Congress should join them, not ban the efforts.  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas.  —  President Donald Trump's one, big, beautiful bill will be a win …
Discussion: Raw Story and NewsMax.com
 
 
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Reuters:
Exclusive: White House wants deep cut in US funding for war crimes investigations, sources say
Camilla Schick / CBS News:
State Dept. layoffs could start as soon as Friday, as Supreme Court decision looms
Discussion: Semafor, NewsMax.com and GovExec.com
Kinsey Crowley / USA Today:
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Clayton Guse / Gothamist:
Mayor Adams hired campaign consultant accused of strangling girlfriend in SoHo hotel
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
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Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
US state department told to terminate nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs
Sarah Posner / Talking Points Memo:
The Trump Administration's Assault on Federal Courts Gets More Shockingly Authoritarian
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