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10:40 AM ET, July 3, 2025

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New York Times:
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: Associated Press and Raw Story
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NOTUS:
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
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Republicans Always Chicken Out  —  The jobs report for June (and revision for May) came out this morning, and the topline was strong: 147,000 new jobs, exceeding expectations, and a slightly lower unemployment rate at 4.1 percent.  May's jobs numbers were also revised higher.
Discussion: MSNBC
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.
Punchbowl News:
7/3/25 ☀️ AM: … It looks like Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump will make their July 4 deadline.  —  The House is on the cusp of passing the One Big Beautiful Bill after an unprecedented and exhausting marathon day in the Capitol. … As of press time, the House was debating the package.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Raskin on Trump ‘ugly’ remark: Not everyone can live up to his ‘exquisite’ level of ‘handsomeness’
Discussion: PennLive
Christian Paz / Vox:
Trump's legislative win could make him a political loser
Politico:
Playbook: Congress caves again
MSNBC:
‘I will take my sweet time’ ripping Trump's bill: Leader Jeffries during final House vote
Calen Razor / Politico:
Jeffries calls out Republicans over Medicaid ahead of final megabill vote
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
After settling with Trump, CBS News staffers fear what comes next  —  Paramount Global is being hammered for bowing to presidential pressure and settling a lawsuit that it likely could have beaten in court.  —  But this convoluted episode is really more about the plaintiff, President Trump, than about Paramount.
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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Media's death by a thousand cuts  —  Press freedom advocates are sounding the alarm following Paramount's $16 million settlement with President Trump, arguing the deal sets a dangerous new precedent, particularly for smaller outlets with fewer legal resources.
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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Associated Press:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was beaten and subjected to psychological torture in El Salvador jail
Nicholas Florko / The Atlantic:
RFK Jr.'s Confusing Disdain for Medicaid  —  Congress is moving forward with cuts to Medicaid that would worsen the country's health woes.  Why isn't RFK Jr. furious?  —  For Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “Make America healthy again” is far more than a nice slogan.
Discussion: NPR
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Phil Galewitz / NPR:
GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states
Discussion: Deseret News and Daily Kos
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.
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Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Hiring Defied Expectations in June, With 147,000 New Jobs  —  Revisions showed hiring was stronger in previous months than initially thought , and unemployment fell to 4.1%  —  U.S. job growth continued at a steady pace last month, surprising economists who had predicted a slowdown …
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: Raw Story and MSNBC
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 …
Discussion: HotAir
Josephine Harvey / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Bragging That He Planted the Elon Musk Drug Abuse Story in the New York Times: Author  —  KETAMINE CLASH  —  Trump biographer Michael Wolff says the feud is in “blood score” territory now.  —  Donald Trump is getting personal in his war on Elon Musk, according to author Michael Wolff.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Independent and Mediaite
Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:
Intern for House Republican Ron Estes fatally shot in DC  —  A 21-year-old intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) was killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C., on Monday night.  —  The intern, Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, joined Estes's office in June.  He is a resident of Granby, Massachusetts, and is attending college at UMass Amherst.
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 …
Tom Suozzi / Wall Street Journal:
For Democrats, Mamdani Is a Wake-Up Call—and a Bad Example  —  He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions.  —  Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who just won New York's Democratic mayoral primary, is a charismatic, smart and effective campaigner with whom I disagree.
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.
 
 
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Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
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Paul Krugman:
Trump's Big Beautiful Debt Bomb
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
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MSNBC:
The megabill's war on the poor is built on a decades-old lie
Ben Geman / Axios:
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Discussion: Bloomberg and E&E News
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
The big problem with Trump's bill: Many voters don't know what's in it
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
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