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12:05 PM ET, June 29, 2025

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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
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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 …
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
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 CBO's January 2025 Baseline  —  As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025  —  CBO estimates that enacting the substitute amendment …
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
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.
Jarrell Dillard / Bloomberg:
Senate Tax Bill Would Add $3.3 Trillion to US Deficits, CBO Says
Discussion: STAT and Newsweek
Nnamdi Egwuonwu / NBC News:
‘Insane and destructive’: Elon Musk resumes attacks on Trump's ‘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
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Schumer to force Senate reading of Trump's entire ‘big, beautiful bill’
New York Times:   Why a G.O.P. Medicaid Requirement Could Set States Up for Failure
Associated Press:
Senate Republicans advance Trump's tax and spending cuts bill after dramatic late-night vote
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Red State Where Republicans Aren't Afraid of Trump
Financial Times:
Iran could restart enriching uranium in months, says nuclear watchdog chief  —  Comments by IAEA's Rafael Grossi follow week of conflicting claims about damage done by US and Israeli strikes  —  Iran could be able to start producing enriched uranium again “in a matter of months” …
Discussion: CNN and CBS News
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Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Iran Says It Doubts Truce Will Hold, Warns Against New Strikes
Discussion: israelhayom.com
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 …
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.”
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Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Trump threatens to back Tillis primary challengers after ‘no’ vote on big, beautiful bill
Politico:
Drama builds ahead of Saturday vote on megabill
James Lee / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
In Pictures: One of Hong Kong's last pro-democracy groups disbands citing ‘tremendous political pressure’  —  One of Hong Kong's last pro-democracy groups, the League of Social Democrats (LSD), announced its disbandment on Sunday after 19 years.  It came on the eve of the fifth anniversary …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, NewsMax.com and Reuters
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
The inside story of Andrew Cuomo's campaign collapse  —  New York CNN —  Another conference call.  This was what strategy looked like on Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign: A small circle of aides and advisers listening to longtime aide Melissa DeRosa, who denied working on his campaign …
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.
Drop Site News:
Leaked Chats Show Pro-Israel Extremist Group Betar Organizing Street Confrontations  —  The secret chat logs include plans to burn Qurans and attack pro-Palestine protesters with pepper spray. … Far-right activists, including members of Betar—a pro-Israel extremist group known for racist violence …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Appeals Court to Consider Trump's Use of Alien Enemies Act  —  The case before one of the most conservative courts in the country is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court.  —  It is one of President Trump's most contentious assertions of executive authority: a proclamation …
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
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 …
 
 
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
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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
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of ‘devastation’ from megabill
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