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12:45 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 …
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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: Rolling Stone and Townhall
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Senate Version of Trump's Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More  —  Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans' new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.
Discussion: The United States … and Politico
Brian Faler / Politico:
Senate Republicans' tax cuts cost projected to rise to $4.45T  —  The cost of Senate Republicans' tax cuts has grown to $4.45 trillion, congressional forecasters said Saturday night.  That's up more than $200 billion from a previous draft of the plan, and reflects numerous last-minute changes lawmakers …
Discussion: Associated Press
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Senate rulekeeper deals blows to revised ‘Big, beautiful bill’  —  A Medicaid carveout for Alaska was among the “Byrd bath” casualties.  —  The Senate's rewritten domestic policy bill faces new hurdles after the parliamentarian advised senators Sunday that several provisions violate …
Discussion: New York Times
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump megabill narrowly advances in Senate despite two GOP defections
Justin Green / Axios:
Trump goes scorched earth on Thom Tillis over “big, beautiful bill”
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
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Schumer to force Senate reading of Trump's entire ‘big, beautiful bill’
New York Times:
Senate Takes Up Trump's Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans prepare to take up Trump's tax bill this afternoon
Associated Press:
Senate Republicans advance Trump's tax and spending cuts bill after dramatic late-night vote
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: CBS News
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Agence France-Presse:
Iran will likely be able to produce enriched uranium ‘in a matter of months’, IAEA chief says  —  Rafael Grossi says some of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile could have been moved before US attacks  —  The UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin …
CNN:
UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’
Discussion: The Hill
Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Iran Says It Doubts Truce Will Hold, Warns Against New Strikes
Discussion: israelhayom.com
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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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: Axios and New York Times
Jarrell Dillard / Bloomberg:
Senate Tax Bill Would Add $3.3 Trillion to US Deficits, CBO Says
Discussion: New York Times, STAT and Newsweek
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 …
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
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.
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 …
Murtaza Hussain / Drop Site News:
Leaked Chats Show Pro-Israel Extremist Group Betar Organizing Street Confrontations  —  Founded as a paramilitary Zionist organization in 1923, Betar Worldwide has a prominent far-right chapter in the US that has aided the Trump administration's deportation efforts by doxxing and agitating against pro-Palestine organizers.
 
 
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New York Times:
How Zohran Mamdani Brought New Voters to the Polls
Discussion: The Guardian
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Appeals Court to Consider Trump's Use of Alien Enemies Act
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers
Discussion: Truthout
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
The first rule in Trump's Washington: Don't write anything down
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73
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Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: New York Times
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing.
Discussion: The Colorado Sun
Katherine Donlevy / New York Post:
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa killed in airstrike, IDF says
The Guardian:
US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers
NPR:
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of ‘devastation’ from megabill
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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