Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Today's Topics
Democratic governors slash healthcare for immigrants in 2028 political calculation
Three potential 2028 Democratic contenders—California's Gavin Newsom, Illinois' JB Pritzker, and Minnesota's Tim Walz—slashed undocumented immigrant healthcare programs in 2025. Newsom froze new Medi-Cal enrollment and imposed $100 monthly premiums to save $5.4 billion by 2029. Pritzker ended Illinois's immigrant health program, cutting coverage for 32,000 residents to trim $404 million. Minnesota repealed undocumented adult eligibility from MinnesotaCare, stripping coverage from 17,000 people and saving $56.9 million. The cuts signal Democratic governors positioning themselves as fiscal moderates ahead of 2028 primary fights.
GOP-controlled Senate Finance Committee trades $930 billion Medicaid for corporate cuts
Behind-the-scenes negotiations revealed how Senate Republicans extracted billions in concessions while preserving massive Medicaid cuts that will remove health insurance from nearly 12 million Americans.
Senate passes tax package after 27-hour marathon
The Senate narrowly passed President Trump's massive tax and spending package after a 27-hour marathon voting session, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote as three Republicans joined all Democrats in opposition.
Education Department weaponizes Title I funds against non-compliant states
On June 30, 2025, Trump's Education Department notified states it would withhold nearly $7 billion in congressionally-approved school funding scheduled for July 1 release. The freeze affects teacher training, after-school programs, English learner services, and migrant education across 33 states, forcing districts to slash services or tap emergency funds.
Space Force cancels GOES satellites as NOAA warns of hurricane blind spots
The Pentagon just pulled the plug on satellites that help forecasters see inside hurricanes—right in the middle of hurricane season. With five days notice, they cut off data that tracks how storms rapidly strengthen overnight, the kind of intelligence that prevents "sunrise surprises" where communities wake up facing killer hurricanes they weren't warned about.
Trump-Netanyahu plan calls for Palestinian displacement and US "ownership"
After 20 months of war killing over 50,000 Palestinians, Trump and Netanyahu plan to complete Palestinian displacement from Gaza, install U.S. "ownership" of the devastated territory, and use this ethnic cleansing to expand Abraham Accords with Saudi Arabia - which demands Palestinian statehood as the price for normalization.
Trump creates unprecedented national database tracking citizenship status
Department of Homeland Security and DOGE have built an unprecedented searchable national database linking Social Security, immigration, and voter registration data to verify citizenship status of "almost all Americans." The system breaks from America's traditional rejection of centralized citizen registries.