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Politico:
Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska SNAP carveout  —  Senate Republicans are racing to salvage a food aid carveout for Alaska and Hawaii in their policy megabill after the parliamentarian privately signaled the plan wouldn't meet strict Senate rules as written.
Discussion: KTOO, Newsweek and The Hill
Politico:
Playbook: Trump vs. Musk, Round II  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  On the Playbook Podcast this morning, Jack and POLITICO's White House reporter — and resident immigration expert — Myah Ward discuss “Alligator Alcatraz,” and why Donald Trump is happy to be headed back to Florida today.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   GOP leaders looking to expand enhanced Medicaid matching rate to woo Murkowski
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House GOP fumes over Senate megabill: ‘How did it get so much f‑‑‑ing worse?’
Discussion: The Status Kuo
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Senate Republicans Wound Filibuster To Pass Debt Bomb
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says  —  Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Bloomberg
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Bush, Obama — and singer Bono — fault Trump's gutting of USAID on agency's last day  —  Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Raw Story and Newsweek
Kat Lay / The Guardian:
Obama calls Trump's USAID closure a ‘travesty’ as report warns of extra 14 million deaths by 2030  —  Former presidents Obama and George W Bush and singer Bono send emotional message to staff as organisation closes  —  Barack Obama and George W Bush have criticised the closure of the US Agency …
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:   Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
Discussion: Agence France-Presse and Mediaite
USA Today:
Suspected Idaho shooter showed ‘Nazi tendencies’ in school, ex-classmates say: Updates  —  The man accused of fatally shooting two firefighters in an ambush in rural Idaho on Sunday had “Nazi tendencies” in school, sketched pictures of guns and swastikas in a notebook and was “obsessed with guns,” three former classmates told USA TODAY.
Associated Press:
Judge again delays Abrego Garcia's release from Tennessee jail over deportation concerns  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns from his lawyers that he could be deported if he's released to await his trial on human smuggling charges, a federal judge in Tennessee ruled Monday.
New York Times:
California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom had demanded changes to address the state's housing crisis, a philosophical shift for Democratic leaders.  —  California leaders on Monday rolled back a landmark law that was a national symbol of environmental protection …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Alligator Alcatraz immigrant prison camp is Florida's sadistic ‘one-stop shop’ for mass deportation  —  Trump will attend the opening on Tuesday with Gov. DeSantis and DHS Sec. Noem. … The Florida GOP announced via X on Friday: “Feds approve Alligator Alcatraz: Florida's gator-guarded prison for illegal aliens.
Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Is Serious About Unleashing the Espionage Act on the Media  —  It is more likely a matter of when, not if, the administration tries to prosecute journalists using the arcane law  —  Donald Trump hates leakers.  He isn't a fan of journalists, either.
Aubrey Wright / Indiana Public Media:
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees  —  Public Indiana colleges and universities will eliminate 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state's budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.  —  The institutions volunteered to cut …
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
A Court Without the Range  —  “O for a Supreme Court which shall be as true, as vigilant, as active, and exacting in maintaining laws enacted for the protection of human rights as in other days was that Court for the destruction of human rights!”  -Frederick Douglass
Discussion: Public Notice and Reason
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Most feel democracy is threatened and political violence is a major problem  —  Ahead of the July 4 holiday and the country's 249th birthday, three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump's Policy Bill  —  Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if the G.O.P. Bill Passes  —  There's a Race to Power the Future.  China Is Pulling Away.  —  Beijing is selling clean energy to the world; Washington is pushing oil and gas.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and The Bulwark
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Paramount, Trump in ‘advanced’ discussions to settle $20 billion lawsuit  —  The parties asked a Texas judge on Monday to pause case deadlines until Thursday as negotiations over the suit play out.  —  Summary162  —  A settlement appears close in President Donald Trump's lawsuit …
Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico:
The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France  —  MARSEILLE, France — The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump's America for France have arrived.  —  Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of joining the institution's …
Heidi Li Feldman / Slate:
Supreme Court Rules Some Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Insist on Theocracy  —  There have been any number of awful decisions from the current Supreme Court, but last week marked a clear breaking point for the American rule of law.  You need only look to the second-worst decision of Friday …
Discussion: RNS and Reason
Axios:
Scoop: Roy Cooper leans toward N.C. Senate bid, potential Trump showdown  —  North Carolina Democrats are getting closer to the gift they've have been asking for all year, with former Gov. Roy Cooper (D) leaning toward a Senate run in the state President Trump has won three times.
New York Times:
There's a Race to Power the Future.  China Is Pulling Away.  —  Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas.  Both are driven by national security.  —  By David Gelles in New York; Somini Sengupta in Brasília and in Tirunelveli, India …
Joe Rennison / New York Times:
The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973  —  It has continued to slide even as President Trump has backed down from his tariff threats and the U.S. stock market has recovered from its losses.  —  The dollar is off to its worst start to a year in more than half a century.
Discussion: The Guardian and Financial Times
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Insults America—Again  —  The president of the United States seems to have no interest in appealing to a national sense of pride or honor.  —  Oops, he did it again.  —  On Sunday, President Donald Trump had a rambling conversation with the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
‘60 Minutes’ Draws the Line … While Paramount Global and Donald Trump negotiate behind the scenes with a mediator over a potential settlement that could decide the fate of the historic Hollywood studio, a very different kind of showdown has been unfolding inside the company—one that pits the …
Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News:
Trump signs executive order lifting sanctions on Syria  —  He had previously announced he would do so in hopes of stabilizing the country.  —  President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump imposes tougher US policy toward Cuba  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed a memorandum imposing a hard-line U.S. policy toward communist-run Cuba and reversing measures put in place by former President Joe Biden, the White House said.  —  The directive will enforce a statutory ban …
Associated Press:
An 82-year-old woman who was injured in a firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, has died  —  An 82-year-old Colorado woman who was injured in a Molotov cocktail attack on demonstrators in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza has died, prosecutors said Monday.
 
 
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Trump will visit a remote immigration detention site in the Florida Everglades
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Another GOP senator warns Medicaid cuts could boomerang on Republicans
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China sanctions former Philippines senator, foreign ministry says
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Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Trump drops lawsuit against Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer
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