Month: June 2025
June 29, 2025
Politics
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis passes on reelection bid after stoking Trump’s ire by voting against ‘big beautiful bill’
“It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election.” “It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election.”
June 29, 2025
Congress
‘We don’t pay people in this country to be lazy,’ Mullin says of Medicaid work requirements
Sen. Markwayne Mullin is insisting President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic megabill doesn't break his promise not to cut Medicaid, even as the Congressional Budget Office estimates 7.8 million people...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump says he has group of ‘very wealthy people’ to buy TikTok, predicts China will approve deal
President Trump said in an interview that he had found a buyer for the TikTok short-video app, which he described as a group of "very wealthy people" whose identities...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump says Republicans could miss July 4 deadline to pass ‘big beautiful’ spending bill
President Trump is unsure whether Republicans will get his marquee One Big Beautiful Bill Act to his desk by the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. “I don’t know. I...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump calls Mamdani a ‘pure communist,’ threatens to cut off NYC federal funds if he’s elected mayor
President Trump slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a “pure communist,” warning that federal funding for the Big Apple could be at risk if the democratic...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump suggests he’ll target journalists to find out who leaked negative report on Iran strikes
President Trump suggested that federal investigators would coerce reporters to tell the government who leaked the “low confidence” preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that his strikes on Iran...
June 29, 2025
Congress
Warner predicts Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will cripple GOP support
As Republicans in Congress look to get President Donald Trump's sweeping megabill to the Oval Office by July 4, one Democratic Senator is predicting the bill will crater support...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods’ with higher taxes — and says billionaires shouldn’t exist
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” on Sunday — and also asserted...
June 29, 2025
Health Care
RFK Jr. is bringing psychedelics to the Republican Party
Republicans now support counterculture drug research, while Democrats have become cautious about unproven medical treatments. Republicans now support counterculture drug research, while Democrats have become cautious about unproven medical...
June 29, 2025
Politics
John Roberts slams ‘dangerous’ rhetoric against courts after SCOTUS handed Trump a major win
Roberts' remarks came a day after the high court concluded its term and handed down decisions in hotly contested cases such as ending the lower courts' ability to issue...