Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Today's Topics
The Concessions and Compromises That Shaped Trump's Medicaid 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 Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" in Historic 51-50 Vote
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.
Trump Holds $7 Billion in School Funding Hostage to Force Political Compliance
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.
Pentagon Terminates Critical Hurricane and Climate Data in Project 2025 Attack on Science
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: Gaza Devastation, Palestinian Displacement, U.S. "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 Administration Creates First-Ever National Citizenship Database
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.