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Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
A $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut Is THIS Close to Happening.  Here's What It'd Look Like.  —  ENID RODRIGUEZ KNOWS WHAT A DIFFERENCE Medicaid can make, because it's made a huge difference for her.  —  Rodriguez, 51, has been working for pretty much her entire life—first in organizations …
Discussion: Townhall
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New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork  —  Instead of directly reducing benefits for the poor, Republicans are making them harder to get and to keep.  —  Low-income Americans would lose health coverage and government food assistance on an unprecedented scale under …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump megabill narrowly advances in Senate despite two GOP defections  —  Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly voted to advance a sprawling 1,000-page bill to enact President Trump's agenda, despite the opposition of two GOP lawmakers.  —  The vote was 51-49.
Justin Green / Axios:
Trump goes scorched earth on Thom Tillis over “big, beautiful bill”  —  President Trump says he'll meet with potential GOP primary challengers to Sen. Thom Tillis after the North Carolina Republican voted Saturday against advancing the “big, beautiful bill.”
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans prepare to take up Trump's tax bill this afternoon
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer to force reading of 1,000-page GOP mega bill, delaying it by half a day
Discussion: Breitbart and The Post Millennial
Nnamdi Egwuonwu / NBC News:
‘Insane and destructive’: Elon Musk resumes attacks on Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Trump threatens to back Tillis primary challengers after ‘no’ vote on big, beautiful bill
New York Times:   Why a G.O.P. Medicaid Requirement Could Set States Up for Failure
Politico:
Drama builds ahead of Saturday vote on megabill
Associated Press:
Senate Republicans advance Trump's tax and spending cuts bill after dramatic late-night vote
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump pollster warns Senate GOP against deeper Medicaid cuts
Discussion: Newsweek and CBS News
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Red State Where Republicans Aren't Afraid of Trump
Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Iran Says It Doubts Truce Will Hold, Warns Against New Strikes  —  Iran said it remains skeptical that a tentative US-brokered ceasefire with Israel would last, warning it's prepared to respond to any fresh aggression.  —  “We have serious doubts about the enemy's commitment to its obligations …
Discussion: israelhayom.com
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CBO Publications:
Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate  —  As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill.  It is a sign of just how unpopular this bill is that they released the new version just before midnight on a Friday night, a time that is the graveyard of news stories.
Discussion: Plain Dealer and Politico
The United States Senate Committee on Finance:
Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported.  Now he's being freed.  —  Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the case.
Tobi Raji / Washington Post:
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat in a front pew during Melissa and Mark Hortman's funeral alongside former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris.  —  Scores of mourners tearfully bid farewell …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
To fight Trump's funding freezes, states try a new gambit: Withholding federal payments  —  The novel and untested approach has been introduced by Democratic lawmakers in at least four states.  —  Democratic legislators mostly in blue states are attempting to fight back against President …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers  —  The images of masked, heavily armed immigration agents snatching people off the streets and taking them away in unmarked cars have shocked many Americans — and led to a simple question: Is all of this legal?  — It is — at least for now.
Discussion: Truthout
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of ‘devastation’ from megabill  —  Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
Discussion: The Hill
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump's pro-Bibi pressure campaign … Trump's unprecedented intervention appeared to tie the security of 10 million Israelis to the criminal prosecution of one man.  — Trump's Truth Social post — in which he claimed the “political witch hunt” would interfere with negotiations with Iran and Hamas …
NPR:
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system  —  The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system.  —  The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local election officials …
The Guardian:
US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers  —  Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases risk  —  Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week …
Discussion: FOX 11 Los Angeles
Wall Street Journal:
The Improbable Rise of Zohran Mamdani  —  The presumptive Democratic nominee for New York mayor emerged from a world of privilege with radical politics and charm to spare.  —  As a high school junior, Zohran Mamdani promised free juice for students in his campaign for class vice president.  He lost.
Discussion: New York Times
Josh Siegel / Politico:
Lee pulls federal land sales from megabill  —  Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah) withdrew his controversial provision to sell public lands for development Saturday night under fierce opposition from fellow Republicans from western states.
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
The first rule in Trump's Washington: Don't write anything down  —  A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root - among career staffers and new political appointees alike.  —  At the Department of Veterans Affairs, some employees had to sign nondisclosure agreements before reviewing plans …
Daniel Barnes / Politico:
Inside the fallout at Paul, Weiss after the firm's deal with Trump  —  Firm chair Brad Karp said he struck a deal with the White House to save his business.  But in the weeks since, the firm has lost some high-profile talent.  —  Three months ago, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison was under attack.
 
 
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing.
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Katherine Donlevy / New York Post:
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa killed in airstrike, IDF says
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Matt Brown / Associated Press:
Democrats wrestle with how to conduct oversight as Trump officials crack down
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People whose lives were permanently altered by disease send a warning as vaccine opposition grows
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