June 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM EDT
'Follow the lemmings off the cliff': Why GOP will likely vote for a 'political liability'

This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will vote on its version of H.R. 1 -- President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" -- which extends tax cuts primarily benefiting the richest Americans and pays for it by drastically slashing social safety nets for the poorest Americans. One anti-Trump conservative is not optimistic that Republicans will buck the president, despite how much the bill may harm their constituents.

June 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM EDT
Trump quietly dropped 'malicious' lawsuit against pollster -- and got no settlement money

President Donald Trump has quietly withdrawn his lawsuit against prominent Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register . The lawsuit, initiated in December 2024 under Iowa's Consumer Fraud Act, accused Selzer and the newspaper of "brazen election interference" after her final pre"'election poll showed former Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by three points in deep"'red Iowa -- a poll that ultimately missed the mark by approximately 16 points, as Trump won the state by 13 points.

June 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM EDT
'Political suicide': Musk promises to stop Trump's big bill 'if it's the last thing I do'

Billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to target members of Congress for defeat if they support President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" after campaigning on promises to cut government spending. Although Musk did not specifically name a party, no Democrat is expected to back the budget measure. "Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!" Musk wrote late Monday afternoon, as the Senate began voting on the legislation. "And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth."

June 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM EDT
'Soul-searching': Senate GOP leader scrambles to win over these 5 Republican holdouts

As Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R"'S.D.) grapples with the need to secure votes from two undecided moderates and three conservatives to pass President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," this week's marathon amendment session has pushed the Republican Party into a moment of introspection. Despite broad confidence in the key GOP legislation, significant roadblocks remain -- especially on Medicaid funding, The Hill reported Monday.

June 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM EDT
'Should be investigated': Leavitt says Trump could revoke mayoral candidate's citizenship

According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, President Donald Trump has not yet ruled out stripping U.S. citizenship from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. During Monday's White House press briefing, Leavitt answered a question from Fox News' Peter Doocy, in which he pressed Leavitt on the administration's position on using denaturalization to prevent Mamdani from becoming mayor of New York City. Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez posted the exchange to Bluesky, in which Leavitt left the door open for Trump to pursue deportation after Doocy's follow-up question.

June 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM EDT
'Banning people for speech': US State Dept. revokes English punk duo's visa over Glastonbury chant

On Monday morning, June 30, the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo reported that according to a U.S. State Department official, visas for the British punk/hip-hop punk artist Bob Vylan had been revoked. Vylan was planning a North American tour for the fall, with performances in both the U.S. and Canada. Dates in New York City and Boston were planned for early November but would be canceled if Vylan is unable to perform in the U.S.

June 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM EDT
'Unhinged' Trump draws scathing mockery for using 'silly little cartoon' to sell unpopular bill

On Saturday, June 28, the U.S. Senate voted, 51-49 on a procedural advancement of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill." Trump is making a concerted effort to berate GOP senators into voting "yes" if the bill clears additional hurdles and advances to a full Senate vote, but Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) -- one of the two Republican "no" votes on June 28 -- is warning that the bill's draconian Medicaid cuts will really hurt his party in the 2026 midterms.

June 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM EDT
American pride plunges to new low under Trump -- again

The year was 2001. The President was a Republican. Nearly nine in ten Americans""87%""said they were extremely or very proud to be an American. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents were all within a handful of points of agreement on just how proud they were. When the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit, pride increased and remained or grew even higher over the next few years. Two decades later, in 2020, the President was once again a Republican. Just a little over six in ten Americans (63%) said they were extremely or very proud to be an American""a new low. Democrats and Republicans were split by 46 points on just how proud they were (88% for Republicans, 42% for Democrats). Independents came in at 64%.

June 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM EDT
'Legal warfare': Dems fear avalanche of GOP dirty tricks in 2026 midterms

The 2026 midterms elections are a little over 16 months away, and Democrats are hoping that unpopular policies by President Donald Trump -- from tariffs to severe Medicaid cuts -- will enable them to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and flip some GOP-held seats in the U.S. Senate. In November, Democratic strategists will be looking at two gubernatorial races -- one in Virginia, one in New Jersey -- as a referendum on Trump's presidency and their prospects in next year's midterms.

June 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM EDT
'I cannot remain quiet': Army officer defies orders to denounce Trump policy in scathing op-ed

A week into his second presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender Americans from enlisting or serving in the U.S. military. And in early June, the U.S. Department of Defense -- under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth -- notified transgender Americans already serving in the military that they can either voluntarily or involuntarily leave. But U.S. Army Major Anthony Guerrero, in a scathing op-ed published by the New York Times early Monday morning, June 30, lays out some reasons why he is vehemently opposed to the Trump Administration's anti-transgender policy.

June 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM EDT
Busted: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of her political donations

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show. In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem's that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group -- one that's not required to disclose the names of its donors -- the original source of the money remains unknown.

June 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM EDT
'It's coming': Trump's new warning to reporters escalates fears in the press

President Donald Trump, in an interview on Fox News aired Sunday, warned of efforts to hold reporters and Democratic figures accountable for allegedly leaking classified intelligence. When host Maria Bartiromo pointed to Trump's recent social media posts critizing media outlets that reported on an intelligence assessment that Iran's nuclear program was not "obliterated" in recent U.S. strikes, Trump said, "They should be prosecuted."