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The Reconciliation Timeline Is Slipping as Trump Struggles to Flip Votes  —  The president told one group of House Republicans Wednesday that Congress shouldn't touch three things if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.  — Copy
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Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans  —  President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill.  They left with signed merchandise and photos of the Oval Office.  —  A conga line of angsty Republican …
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
New York Times:
Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill  —  Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.  —  At the core of Republicans' sprawling domestic policy package is an important political calculation.
Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal:
Biden, in Rare Remarks Since Presidency, Warns His Accomplishments Are Coming Undone  —  Former president says European and domestic political leaders are seeking out his advice during Trump's second term  —  Joe Biden, in his lengthiest public remarks since he revealed his cancer diagnosis in May …
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Post and The Hill
Christian Paz / Vox:
Trump's legislative win could make him a political loser  —  President Donald Trump is about to achieve his biggest legislative victory yet: his “one big, beautiful bill” — the massive tax- and Medicaid-cutting, immigration and border spending bill passed the Senate on Tuesday — is on the verge of passing the House of Representatives.
Emily Peck / Axios:
“Big, beautiful bill” gives some seniors hefty tax break  —  The “big, beautiful bill” features a new tax break for older Americans who pay taxes on Social Security income.  But there's a significant catch. … In the Senate version, the new deduction is $6,000 for individuals and $12,000 for couples.
New York Times:
President Trump's Bill Moves to Final Vote After G.O.P. Holdouts Forced Delay  —  A vote allowing the bill to come up for debate indicated a breakthrough after Speaker Mike Johnson haggled with Republican holdouts into the early hours of Thursday.  —  Here's the latest.
Politico:
Playbook: Congress caves again
Phil Galewitz / NPR:
GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states
Discussion: Deseret News and Daily Kos
Politico:
House left in limbo as megabill talks continue
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Biden's climate law boosted red states. Their lawmakers are now gutting it.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and E2
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Lawfare Against the Free Press  —  He suggests prosecuting CNN, while pressuring a settlement out of CBS.  —  Click for Sound  —  President Trump has taunted the media for years, and some of his jibes are deserved given the groupthink in most newsrooms.
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New York Times:
For ‘60 Minutes,’ a Humbling Moment at an Uneasy Time for Press Freedom  —  After an astonishing concession to a sitting president, the country's most popular television news program faces the prospect of new ownership and a chilled environment for the First Amendment.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Inside CBS News, Staffers Voice Disgust, Anger, Relief and Anxiety After Trump Settlement
Politico:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes ‘severe beatings’ and ‘psychological torture’ in Salvadoran prison … The Salvadoran prison where Abrego was initially housed, known as the Anti-Terrorism Confinement Center or by its Spanish-language acronym CECOT, is reputed to be rife with gang violence and human rights abuses.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was beaten and subjected to psychological torture in El Salvador jail  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration had deported him to in March …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:   Trump's Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Illegal Border Crossings Plunge to Lowest Level in Decades  —  Border Patrol agents made just over 6,000 arrests in June, according to government figures, a sign that President Trump's hard-line immigration policies are working to keep people out.  —  The number of people crossing …
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Republicans are quietly winning the political fight on guns  —  🗣️ Paid subscribers make Public Notice possible.  If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please support us.  👇  —  Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia — a gun shop owner …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials  —  Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the department and the threat of criminalization into the election system.
Associated Press:
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza  —  American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.
Discussion: Semafor and Associated Press
New York Times:
'There's Just Too Much Lawlessness': Three Legal Experts on an Embattled Supreme Court  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the author of …
Discussion: MSNBC
New York Times:
How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy  —  For years, the United States labor market has been undergoing a structural transformation.  As jobs in manufacturing have receded, slowly but steadily, the health care industry has more than replaced them.  —  The change has been particularly visible …
Politico:
Trump allies caught off guard by Pentagon's Ukraine weapons freeze … Even allies of President Donald Trump were frustrated by the move, and accused officials such as Colby — who led a review of U.S. munitions stockpiles that preceded the freeze — of pushing the move forward without notifying the rest of the administration or others.
MSNBC:
The megabill's war on the poor is built on a decades-old lie  —  Ronald Reagan's mythic “welfare queen” turned voters against social programs.  —  When President Ronald Reagan was trying to justify massive cuts on social programs, he would often invoke the so-called welfare queen.
 
 
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