Year: 2025
June 23, 2025
Congress
Oz nudges Senate Republicans to ease off on Medicaid cuts
CMS chief Dr. Mehmet Oz just indicated to a group of GOP chiefs of staff that they should stick with language closer to the House megabill’s Medicaid language, especially...
June 23, 2025
Congress
Democrats set to target multiple Senate GOP tax provisions
Senate Finance Committee staff is expected to meet Monday with Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough Monday, with Republicans and Democrats presenting competing cases for whether health provisions of the pending...
June 23, 2025
Congress
GAO is targeted by House Republicans in new spending bill
House Republicans are aiming to slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government by nearly half in the next fiscal year, according...
June 23, 2025
Congress
Senate GOP unlikely to release revised megabill text Monday
Senate Republicans are unlikely to release full revised text of their sweeping domestic-policy bill Monday as they had hoped, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics,...
June 23, 2025
Politics
Ex-Clinton national security official admits Kamala Harris ‘would not have had the courage’ to order ‘bold’ Iran strike
A former National Security Council official under the Clinton administration, Jamie Metzl who claims to have voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, lauded President Trump's airstrikes on Iran....
June 23, 2025
Newsletter
AI slop spreads in Israel-Iran war
As the war between Israel and Iran expands, AI-generated content is being used to spread propaganda and misinformation.
June 23, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: How Johnson may block an Iran rebuke
President Donald Trump already had Republicans scrambling to get their “big, beautiful bill” to his desk by next week. Now he’s got Congress grappling with something even bigger: the...
June 23, 2025
Politics
Shocking poll shows Mamdani overtaking Cuomo in NYC’s ranked choice primary
Lefty upstart Zohran Mamdani has leapfrogged over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city's ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor, according to a stunning new poll released Monday. Lefty...
June 22, 2025
Politics
Ukraine showers Trump with praise for strikes on Iran while ex-Russian prez floats giving Tehran nukes
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry cheered the US strikes against Iran, and backed President Trump's assertion that Tehran cannot be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry cheered the US...
June 22, 2025
Politics
Rubio says it’s ‘irrelevant’ whether Iran was actively pursuing a nuke
Rubio said the mere fact that Iran had "everything they need to build nuclear weapons" justified President Trump's decision to take action against the theocratic regime. Rubio said the...