Elon Musk is threatening to primary Republicans who voted for President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," posing a challenge for the president and his allies as they look to defy midterm headwinds. Musk vowed earlier this week that Republicans who supported Trump's megabill "will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth" as the Tesla CEO has reignited his feud with Trump in recent days. Republicans see the comments as unhelpful, with some saying if the threats come to fruition, it could risk diverting resources away in an election environment that historically hasn't been kind to the president's party in power. |
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President Trump on Friday signed a massive reconciliation package that will extend tax cuts and phase-in cuts to Medicaid, finalizing a significant legislative victory for his administration after months of difficult negotiations with Republicans on Capitol Hill. Trump signed the one big, beautiful bill into law at a military family picnic at the White House for the Fourth of July. Trump and his aides had long pegged Independence Day as a deadline for when they hoped to see the legislation on his desk, a timeline that appeared in peril just days ago. |
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On a late February evening, President Trump sealed the deal for the first vote on his "one big, beautiful bill" with a conversation that brought one House Republican to tears. And into the wee hours of Thursday morning, Trump's conversations with GOP holdouts helped unlock the final vote on the major legislation, getting it to the president's desk by his July 4 deadline. Over and over as House Republicans crafted, debated and headed for topsy-turvy, history-making votes on Trump's marquee legislation, holdouts on both the moderate and conservative ends of the conference threatened to derail the bill. |
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The massive tax cut legislation passed by the House and Senate this week will dramatically upend health care in America. The legislation, signed Friday by President Trump, was never framed as a health bill, but it will mark the biggest changes to U.S. health policy since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010. |
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President Trump's domestic agenda bill spans military and immigration measures, major cuts to national healthcare, and numerous industrial incentives — but the heart of the bill is still tax cuts. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation scored the Senate version of the bill as cutting deficits by $500 billion over 10 years without the cost of the main tax cuts in the bill, which are extensions of cuts initially passed in 2017. |
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Texas lawmakers on both sides of the aisle took a break from their July 4 festivities Friday to respond to deadly flooding in the state's Hill Country area that has left at least 13 dead and more than 20 children missing. Rescue teams, both in helicopters and boats, continue to search for those unaccounted for following heavy rain in the Kerr County region of the Lone Star State, which is known for its many summer camps. "This breaks my heart. Please join me in praying for the families who've lost their loved ones and for the speedy recovery of those missing," Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) wrote online. |
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President Trump said he was unaware that the term "shylock" is considered antisemitic, after using it during his Iowa speech Thursday to describe lenders that add too many conditions on their loans. Trump said he "never heard it that way" and did not recognize that it was an offensive term for Jewish people. The word comes from a Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," in which a Jewish lender requires a debtor hand over a pound of flesh as interest. |
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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said during a recent interview that the Republican tax and spending bill, which President Trump signed Friday, will be seen as a "mass extinction event," predicting the Democratic Party will pick up more than 40 House seats in the 2026 midterms. "And I like with the unified party — every Democrat voted against this. Every Democrat, regardless of the ideology, their ethnicity … we can all rally around this, and we can run on this single issue all the way to 2026. And Paul is right, we're going to pick up more than 40 House seats," Carville, the former strategist for former President Clinton's campaign, said during a Thursday appearance on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." |
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The University of Pennsylvania's decision this week to sign an agreement with the Trump administration committing to barring transgender athletes from its women's sports teams is raising questions about whether other schools might do the same faced with the weight of the federal government. Penn, President Trump's alma mater, is the first to sign such an agreement, which the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) proposed following an investigation that found the university violated Title IX, the federal law against sex discrimination in schools, when it allowed Lia Thomas to join the women's swim team for the 2021-22 season. |
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OPINION | "There is war," Muhammed from Yemen wrote to me. "Everything is chaotic. Schools are closed. People have no food to eat. Everyone is scared. It's very dangerous. Little kids have guns and other weapons." "The politics in Bangladesh is corrupt," wrote Tamjid. "Schools are always closed because of strikes. Many students are afraid to go to school." "We came here because my father was threatened and my family was afraid they would hurt us," Miguel of Colombia wrote. Such were the 81 cards — hand-made, hand-written and colorfully illustrated in crayon — carrying personal messages to me from immigrant children now living in the U.S. |
OPINION | A U.S.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment. It is a mineral deal first, an opportunity for peace second. Making the deal work will depend on continued monitoring by the U.S. government and support from Congress. The deal aligns squarely with U.S. strategic interests and President Trump's ethos for a transactional foreign policy. The carrots offered to both the Congolese for their minerals and to Rwanda, a potential processing hub, may get the two to the table. Yet from my experience in the region, I believe a sustainable peace can only be delivered if accountability for human rights violations committed by all sides is out front. |
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BY DAVID W. CHEN AND POOJA SALHOTRA |
The ink is not even dry on the far-reaching domestic policy law that President Trump signed on Friday, and already state governments are bracing for impact as Washington shifts much of the burden for health care, food assistance and other programs onto them.
Gov. JB Pritzker, Democrat of Illinois, and legislative leaders might hold a special session to deal with the new law, even though the recently passed state budget already includes $100 million to cover shortfalls in federal funding.
Another Democrat, Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, has warned that even her state's $1.6 billion emergency fund will be insufficient to weather what's coming, because "even if we cut every single thing in the state, we don't have the money to backfill all these cuts." |
In the U.S.-China conflict, President Trump is waging an economic assault. But Chinese leader Xi Jinping is fighting a Cold War.
Xi is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy he has prepared for years—one that, according to policy advisers in Beijing, is inspired by his understanding of what the Soviet Union got wrong during the first Cold War.
Well aware of the U.S.'s continued economic and military superiority, the advisers say, Xi is seeking to avoid direct confrontation, while holding China's ground in a protracted, all-encompassing competition. |
In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who exercises authority in the Catholic Church must "make oneself small," so that only Christ remains.
In word and deed since, Leo has seemed intent on almost disappearing into the role. The shy Augustinian missionary has eschewed the headline-grabbing protagonism of past pontiffs in favor a less showy and more reserved way of being pope. Leo will disappear further this weekend when he begins a six-week vacation in his first break since his historic election May 8. Leo is resuming the papal tradition of escaping the Roman heat for the relatively cooler climes of Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer retreat on Lake Alban, south of Rome. |
Rebecca Bennett was addressing about 30 voters, many of them veterans she knew from her work in the community, in a gaming store owned by one of her supporters that featured bookshelves lined with board games such as "Eldritch Horror" and "Lost Ruins of Arnak."
Bennett was trying to explain what serving in Congress has in common with her service as a Navy helicopter pilot. "If you don't land exactly where you need to, you're going to crash and people are going to die," she said. "The stakes were life and death then, and they are life and death now."
Bennett is one of a crop of military veterans that Democrats are urgently recruiting to run for Congress in 2026. Party leaders fret that a large number of voters — conservative, rural, traditionalist, White — have been written off by Democrats, and they hope veterans can persuade some of these voters to at least consider them again.
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