Trump says Israel has agreed to 60-day ceasefire in Gaza – are living updates | Trump administration

Donald Trump announced today on his social media platform that Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire in its war in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept the terms of the agreement.

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“The Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal. I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” he wrote.

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The news comes as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the White House on July 7.

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Last month, Trump similarly announced a ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Iran conflict on his social media platform before either country could confirm they had agreed to the arrangement.

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Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning that the central bank would likely have already cut interest rates this year had it not been for the economic shock caused by Donald Trump’s tariff policies.

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When asked if Trump’s tariffs on imported goods held up the Fed’s plan to cut interest rates, Powell replied:

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I think that’s right.

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Speaking at a central banking conference in Portugal, he went on:

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In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs.

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In response, Trump attacked Powell once again during his tour of the controversial new detention facility in Florida this morning. Asked if he intended to announce his pick for the next Fed chair, Trump said: “Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.”

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The Senate passed Trump’s sweeping tax and spending megabill by the narrowest of margins – 51-50 – with vice-president JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote after three Republicans – Thom Tillis, Rand Paul and Susan Collins – voted no. While the bill has cleared a major hurdle, it’s by no means guaranteed that Trump’s self-imposed 4 July deadline will be met, with a number of Republicans in the House – which passed its version of the bill last month also by a single vote – already vocalising opposition to the Senate’s changes. As my colleague Chris Stein highlights, the GOP remains sharply divided between “rightwing fiscal hardliners demanding deeper spending cuts, demanding deep spending cuts, moderates wary of dismantling safety-net programs, and Republicans from Democratic-led states expected to make a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any one of these groups could potentially derail the bill’s passage through a chamber where the GOP can lose no more than three votes.” With all that to come this week (the high-stakes House vote is set for tomorrow), for now this marks a major victory for Trump, who is one step closer to enacting his domestic agenda, implicating everything from tax breaks for the wealthy to building the border wall to slashing Medicaid and SNAP, all the while adding an estimated $3.3tn to the deficit through 2034. At least we don’t have to call it the “one big, beautiful bill” any more.

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  Trump toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience. “You’ll have a lot of people that will deport on their own because they don’t want to end up in an Alligator Alcatraz, or some of these other places,” Florida governor Ron DeSantis said. Both he and Trump urged other states to follow the model and open similar facilities. DeSantis and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said detainees could arrive at the rapidly constructed facility as soon as tomorrow

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  Trump then revisited his idea of “renovating and rebuilding Alcatraz”, with a view to reopening the infamous island prison in San Francisco, which has been closed for over 60 years. He posted on Truth Social: “Conceptual work started six months ago, and various prison development firms are looking at doing it with us. Still a little early, but lots of promise!”

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  The Pentagon has halted some shipments of air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles are too low, Politico reports, citing people familiar with the issue.

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  Pro-Palestinian Georgetown University student, Badar Khan Suri, from India, detained by Donald Trump’s administration but then released on a judge’s order, can remain free while fighting deportation efforts, a US appeals court ruled.

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  USAID will officially stop implementing foreign aid starting today, secretary of state Marco Rubio said, adding that America’s assistance in the future will be targeted and limited, focusing on trade rather than aid.

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  Trump and administration officials threatened to prosecute CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

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  The Trump administration raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship over his vocal support for Palestinian rights. Democrat senator Chris Murphy slammed the idea as “racist bullshit”.

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  Trump and Elon Musk’s feud reignited this week with the former political allies trading sharp public threats of retribution from Doge to deportation, ending a period of rapprochement between two of the world’s most powerful men.

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The Pentagon has halted some shipments of air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles are too low, Politico is reporting, citing people familiar with the issue.

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“The decision was made in early June to withhold some aid promised to Kyiv under former president Joe Biden but it is only taking effect now as Ukraine is beating back some of the largest Russian barrages of missiles and drones at civilian targets in Kyiv and elsewhere,” the report added.

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On Sunday, Moscow fired more than 500 aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that Kyiv described as the biggest air attack so far of the three-year war. You can find all our coverage of Ukraine here.

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A pro-Palestinian Georgetown University student from India, detained by Donald Trump’s administration but then released on a judge’s order, can remain free while fighting deportation efforts, a US appeals court has ruled.

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A three-judge panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th US circuit court of appeals ruled 2-1 against the administration’s request that Badar Khan Suri be returned to immigration detention. The 4th circuit said it found no grounds to overturn the decision by US district judge Patricia Tolliver Giles to order Suri’s release.

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“To allow the government to undermine habeas jurisdiction by moving detainees without notice or accountability reduces the writ of habeas corpus to a game of jurisdictional hide-and-seek,” judge James Andrew Wynn wrote on Tuesday.

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Suri, 41, was arrested in Virginia in March and then moved by the US government to Texas, where he was released in May after the ruling by Giles. Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, part of the Jesuit university’s School of Foreign Service.

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The Trump administration has attempted to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student protesters while accusing them of being antisemitic, threats to American foreign policy and extremist sympathizers.

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Suri has denied the federal government’s allegations that he spread Palestinian militant propaganda and antisemitism on social media.

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Protesters, including some Jewish groups, have said the US government has conflated criticism of Israel’s military assault in Gaza with antisemitism and advocacy for Palestinian rights with support for extremism.

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Human rights advocates have raised free speech and due process concerns over the administration’s actions toward these students.

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Other pro-Palestinian students who were arrested by the government and subsequently released under judicial orders include Columbia University students Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi and Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk.

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Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is a US citizen. Saleh is from Gaza, according to the Georgetown University website, which said she has written for Al Jazeera and Palestinian media outlets and worked with the foreign ministry in Gaza. Saleh was not arrested.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s feud reignited this week with the former political allies trading sharp public threats of retribution. The blowup, centered around Musk’s opposition to Trump’s signature tax bill as it moves through Congress, ends a period of rapprochement between two of the world’s most powerful men.

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Musk posted escalating attacks against the sweeping tax and spending bill – which passed through the Senate earlier today by a single vote, with three Republicans voting no – on his social media platform X late last night, calling the legislation “insane” and vowing to form a new political party if it passed.

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In response, Trump claimed he could “look into” deporting the South Africa-born billionaire, while also suggesting he could cut government subsidies for Musk’s companies or set the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) on its former leader.

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“Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?” Trump asked reporters earlier today.

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He was later asked by a reporter if he was concerned about his on-again off-again buddy ripping into the bill again and if he was worried Republicans would be swayed by the tech billionaire and his money. The president replied:

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I think what’s going to happen is Doge is going to look at Musk, and if Doge looks at Musk we’re going to save a fortune.

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Trump added:

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I don’t think he should be playing that game with me.

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Musk’s attempt to derail the tax bill was a major factor in his falling out with the president last month, and the Tesla CEO’s renewed offensive comes at a sensitive time as Trump seeks to shepherd the legislation through Congress before his self-imposed 4 July deadline.

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The fight could test Musk’s political influence over the Republican party as he seeks to peel away votes for the bill, as well as further deteriorate his once-close relationship with Trump.

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Donald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

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Speaking to reporters in Florida on a trip to visit a new Ice detention center in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said her department and the Department of Justice were looking at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock.

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“We’re working with Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them,” Noem said, “because what they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities and operations. We’re going to actually go after them and prosecute them. What they’re doing is illegal.”

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Trump joined in, saying the news network – a frequent target of his ire – should also be prosecuted for what he said were “false reports on the attack on Iran”, referring to the leak of a Pentagon assessment that suggested US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and had probably only set the program back by months.

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CNN defended its reporting of the app through a spokesperson, saying:

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This is an app that is publicly available to any iPhone user who wants to download it. There is nothing illegal about reporting the existence of this or any other app, nor does such reporting constitute promotion or other endorsement of the app by CNN.

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Noem’s comments came hours after Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, also criticized the news outlet for its reporting on the IceBlock app.

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“It’s disgusting,” Homan said during an appearance on the rightwing commentator Benny Johnson’s internet show. “I can’t believe we live in a world where the men and women in law enforcement are the bad guys. It’s already a dangerous job.”

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Homan had been asked about the app, which was created to report sightings of Ice agents in any given area. Software developer Joshua Aaron recently told CNN that he had launched the app “when I saw what was happening in this country”.

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“I wanted to do something to fight back,” Aaron said, telling the network that the administration’s deportation efforts were, to him, reminiscent of Nazi Germany. “We’re literally watching history repeat itself,” Aaron said.

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Homan also suggested CNN was complicit in putting federal law enforcement in danger.

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“This is horrendous that a national media outlet would be out there trying to forecast law enforcement operations,” he said. “I think DoJ needs to look at this. They’re crossing that line.”

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He added: “We need to send a strong message that we need to protect the law enforcement officers.”

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The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part of a crackdown against foreign-born citizens convicted of certain offences.

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Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, appeared to pave the way for an investigation into Mamdani’s status after Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican congressman for Tennessee, called for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for “terrorism” during the naturalization process.

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Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents, became a US citizen in 2018 and has attracted widespread media attention – and controversy – over his vocal support for Palestinian rights.

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It follows a chorus of Islamophobic attacks on his Muslim faith following his victory in last week’s New York mayoral primary, when he finished first, 12 percentage points ahead of Andrew Cuomo, the former New York state governor and favored candidate of the Democratic establishment.

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It also comes after the Trump administration instructed attorneys to prioritize denaturalizing foreign-born US citizens who had committed specified crimes. A justice department memo instructs lawyers to institute proceedings against naturalized citizens who ares suspected of having “illegally procured” naturalization or having done so by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.

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Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut who has become one of the Trump administration’s most effective critics, called the demand to denaturalize Mamdani “racist bullshit”. He wrote:

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Trump will stop at nothing to protect billionaires and price gouging corporations, even racist bullshit like this. Zohran won because he ran a campaign laser focused on putting power back in the hands of working people. And that’s a threat to the Mar-a-Lago crowd.

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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer got the name of Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package struck off moments before it passed through the upper chamber, meaning it will no longer be called the “one big, beautiful bill”.

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Schumer argued the title of the megabill violated Section 313 B1A of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or what’s commonly referred to as the “Byrd Rule”.

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“This is not a ‘big, beautiful bill’ at all. That’s why I moved down the floor to strike the title. It is now called ‘the act’. That’s what it’s called. But it is really the ‘big ugly betrayal’, and the American people know it,” Schumer told reporters.

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“This vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come. Because of this bill, tens of millions will lose health insurance. Millions of jobs will disappear. People will get sick and die, kids will go hungry and the debt will explode to levels we have never seen.”

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“This bill is so irredeemable that one Republican literally chose to retire rather than vote yes and decimate his own state,” Schumer added, referring to senator Thom Tillis, who announced yesterday he would not be seeking re-election after clashing with Trump over his opposition.

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Donald Trump has revisited his idea of “renovating and rebuilding Alcatraz”, which a view to reopening the infamous island prison in San Francisco, which has been closed for over 60 years.

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He wrote on his Truth Social platform:

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I saw a picture of ALCATRAZ looking so foreboding, and I said, “We’re going to look into renovating and rebuilding the famous ALCATRAZ Prison sitting high on the Bay, surrounded by sharks. What a symbol it is, and will be!” Conceptual work started six months ago, and various prison development firms are looking at doing it with us. Still a little early, but lots of promise!

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Federal prison officials visited Alcatraz last month after Trump’s earlier announcement of plans to reopen the island facility.

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David Smith, the superintendent of the Golden Gate national recreation area (GGNRA), told the San Francisco Chronicle last month that officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons were planning to return for further structural assessments. “They have been out here. They’ll be coming out again to do assessments of the structure,” he told the news outlet.

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Alcatraz has been closed since 1963, when then attorney general Robert F Kennedy ordered its shutdown amid high operating costs, limited space and multiple escape attempts.

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Although California lawmakers have dismissed the Alcatraz proposal as a “distraction” and not a serious plan, Trump’s update is further evidence that his administration is actively working – with the help of private prison companies – to reopen this and other facilities, some of which are already back in operation.

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It follows Trump’s visit to a newly opened immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, today, during which he praised governor Ron DeSantis and encouraged other red states to open similar facilities.

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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will officially stop implementing foreign aid starting today, secretary of state Marco Rubio said, adding that America’s assistance in the future will be targeted and limited.

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“We will favor those nations that have demonstrated both the ability and willingness to help themselves and will target our resources to areas where they can have a multiplier effect and catalyze durable private sector, including American companies, and global investment,” he wrote.

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This new model, he added, would prioritize trade over aid and investment over assistance, adding it would put Washington in a stronger place to counter Beijing.

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The Trump administration has frozen and then cut back billions of dollars of foreign aid since taking office, saying it wants to ensure US taxpayer money goes only to programs that are aligned with Trump’s “America First” policies.

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The cutbacks have effectively shut down USAID, leading to the firing of thousands of its employees and contractors. That jeopardized the delivery of life-saving food and medical aid and has thrown global humanitarian relief operations into chaos.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, responded to the bill’s passing on social media. She wrote on X:

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“JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country. An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.”

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California governor Gavin Newsom also alluded to the bill’s passing, reposting a video of Trump speaking about the governor while visiting the Florida immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”. Newsom wrote:

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“Trump would rather talk about alligators than his major, signature ‘big beautiful bill’ for a reason.”

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What’s in Trump’s massive tax and spending bill? My colleague Chris Stein has this helpful explainer on the GOP’s sweeping legislation that will boost the wealthy, fund Trump’s border wall and risk an added $3tn to the national deficit:

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Republican senator Susan Collins, one of the three dissenters, has said that she voted against the bill “primarily” because of her concerns about cuts to Medicaid.

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Collins, of Maine, said the Medicaid cuts would threaten her constituents’ access to health care and that the bill had “additional problems”, including the phasing out of energy tax credits.

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In a length statement posted on X, she said:

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While I continue to support the tax relief I voted for in 2017, I could not support these Medicaid changes and other issues.

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She said a provision creating a fund to help rural hospitals was not “sufficient” to counterbalance other changes to the Medicaid program.

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I strongly support extending the tax relief for families and small businesses. My vote against this bill stems primarily from the harmful impact it will have on Medicaid, affecting low-income families and rural healthcare providers like our hospitals and nursing homes.

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I am pleased that the bill contains a special fund that I proposed to provide some assistance to our rural hospitals, but it is not sufficient to offset the other changes in the Medicaid system.

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She continued:

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This bill has additional problems. The tax credits that energy entrepreneurs have relied on should have been gradually phased out so as not to waste the work that has already been put into these innovative new projects and prevent them from being completed. The bill should have also retained incentives for Maine families who choose to install heat pumps and residential solar panels.

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Donald Trump said the Senate’s passage of his tax and spending bill was “music to my ears”.

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While holding a roundtable discussion at the highly controversial new migrant detention facility in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, a reporter broke the news to the president. He replied.

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Wow, music to my ears.

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I was also wondering how we’re doing, because I know this is primetime, it shows that I care about you.

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Trump also commended his vice-president, JD Vance, who cast the tie-breaking vote.

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He’s doing a good job.

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Asked what was his message to GOP holdouts in the House who aren’t satisfied with the Senate’s changes to the measure, Trump said:

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It tells you there’s something for everyone. … It’s a great bill. There is something for everyone, and I think it’s going to go very nicely in the House. Actually, I think it will be easier in the House than it was in the Senate.

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Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin has slammed the Republicans’ passage of their bill for Trump’s agenda, calling it “a massive scheme to steal from working folks, struggling families and even from nursing homes – all to enrich the already rich with a tax giveaway”.

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Here are some extracts from Martin’s statement:

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Donald Trump and Senate Republicans have sent a clear message to the American people: Your kids, your job, and your elderly relatives don’t matter.

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This is one of the worst bills in the history of Congress. It’s a massive scheme to steal from working folks, struggling families, and hell, even from nursing homes – all to enrich the already rich with a tax giveaway.

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The families who will be devastated by this billionaire budget scam aren’t just numbers, they are constituents that Republicans promised to represent – 17 million Americans who will lose their healthcare and more than 5 million Americans who will be at risk of losing their food assistance.

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Billionaires don’t need more help, working families do. Democrats will stand shoulder to shoulder with working families to kick these Republicans out of their seats in 2026.

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House GOP leaders said they will “immediately” consider the Senate’s reconciliation bill, adding they’ll send it to the president by the self-imposed 4 July deadline.

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“The House will work quickly to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill that enacts President Trump’s full America First agenda by the Fourth of July,” said the statement from speaker Mike Johnson, majority leader Steve Scalise, majority whip Tom Emmer and conference chair Lisa McClain. “The American people gave us a clear mandate, and after four years of Democrat failure, we intend to deliver without delay.”

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With the battle in the House to come next, several Republicans in that chamber have already said they don’t support the version that has emerged from the Senate, which the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates will add $800bn more to the national debt than the House’s version.

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As I reported yesterday, the House Freedom Caucus, a group of hardline conservatives who repeatedly threatened to withhold their support for the tax bill, is pushing for deeper spending cuts than what the Senate has offered.

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“The Senate’s version adds $651bn to the deficit – and that’s before interest costs, which nearly double the total,” the caucus posted online yesterday. “That’s not fiscal responsibility. It’s not what we agreed to.”

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On the other side of the GOP divide, a group of more moderate House Republicans, especially those who represent lower-income areas, object to the steeper Medicaid cuts in the Senate’s plan, fearing that a crackdown on a funding mechanism for the health program could lead to service cutbacks in rural areas.

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“I will not support a final bill that eliminates vital funding streams our hospitals rely on,” representative David Valadao, a California Republican, said during the weekend debate.

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They have also struggled to agree on a tax break for state and local tax (Salt) payments that is a top priority for a handful of House Republicans from high-tax states including New York, New Jersey and California.

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Still, House Republicans are likely to face enormous pressure to fall in line from Trump in the days to come. And so far, his party has largely toed the line, with few willing to defy the president.

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The Senate has just passed Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill after more than 24 hours of negotiations.

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The vote was 50-50 and vice-president JD Vance was in the chamber to cast the tie-breaking vote. Republicans Thom Tillis, Rand Paul and Susan Collins voted no, along with all Democrats.

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Asked if he intends to announce his pick for the next Fed chair, Trump gestures to Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem to imply they would both be good candidates, before adding:

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Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.

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He’s costing us a fortune because he keeps the rate way up.

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Trump has repeatedly personally attacked and called on Jerome Powell to lower interest rates, to which the Fed has said it takes independent economic decisions.

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After touring the detention facility, Trump is asked by a reporter when the first person will be “checking in to their room” (it is not a hotel and there are no rooms), DeSantis replies: “Tomorrow.”

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Noem adds, “hopefully within the next 24 hours”.

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DeSantis says there will be a security sweep first and then the facility will be “ready to receive” people, gesturing towards Noem whom he says “has people in the queue”.

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Asked if he was concerned about Elon Musk ripping in his “big, beautiful bill” again and if he was worried Republicans would be swayed by the tech billionaire and his money, Trump replied:

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No, I don’t think so.

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I think what’s going to happen is Doge is going to look at Musk, and if Doge looks at Musk we’re going to save a fortune.

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Before walking off, he added of Musk:

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I don’t think he should be playing that game with me.

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Musk, Trump’s on-again off-again buddy, has been sharply critical of the “big, beautiful bill”, and has threatened to launch a new political party, as well as launching primary challenges to Republican senators, if the Senate passes it.

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Trump earlier indicated to reporters outside the White House that Musk, head of the electric car company Tesla, was upset at losing the electric vehicle mandate (a tax subsidy for those who buy one) but “could lose a lot more than that”.

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“We might have to put Doge on Elon,” Trump said, referring to the government of department efficiency that Musk headed before their fallout, and which has eliminated billions of dollars in government spending.

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Musk, through Tesla, and especially from government contracts to SpaceX, has been the recipient of billions himself.

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Trump went on:

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You know what Doge is? Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis said the facility – and others like it, should other red states take similar steps – would act as a deterrent, saying:

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You’ll have a lot of people that will deport on their own, because they don’t want to end up in an ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ or some of those other places.

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So I think this is a model, but we need other states to step up.

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After touring the detention facility in Florida, Donald Trump is speaking to reporters alongside state governor Ron DeSantis and homeland security secretary Kristi Noem.

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Trump said of the visit:

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The trip was nice and the job they’ve done is fantastic. And this is what you need.

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Asked if this is the model going forward, Trump said:

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n

It can be.

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You don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure. They have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators, you don’t have to pay them so much. But I wouldn’t want to run through the Everglades for long. It will keep people where they’re supposed to be.

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As the Senate continues its record vote-a-rama session on amendments to the legislation, which has now gone beyond 24 hours, Donald Trump earlier told reporters he was open to moving the 4 July deadline he gave fellow Republicans to get behind the tax and spending bill, amid deep divisions within the party.

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But he also said it would be wise for Republicans to get on board. He said he expected to get the legislation passed in the end.

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“I’d love to do July 4 but I think it’s very hard to do July 4,” he told reporters outside the White House before leaving for Florida. “I would think maybe July 4, but somewhere around there.”

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Even if the bill passes the Senate, the House needs to vote on it again before it lands on Trump’s desk.

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Donald Trump has just been speaking with reporters on the White House lawn as he departs for Florida, and a trip to tour the new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz (more on that shortly).

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The president had a lot to say, not least a broadside at his on-again, off-again buddy Elon Musk, who has been critical of Trump’s big, beautiful bill, and has threatened to launch a new political party, as well as launching primary challenges to Republican senators, if the Senate passes it.

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Trump indicated that Musk, head of the electric car company Tesla, was upset at losing the electric vehicle mandate (a tax subsidy for those who buy one) but “could lose a lot more than that”.

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“We might have to put Doge on Elon,” Trump said, referring the the government of department efficiency that Musk headed before their fallout, and which has eliminated billions of dollars in government spending.

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Musk, through Tesla, and especially from government contracts to SpaceX, has been the recipient of billions himself.

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Trump said:

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n

You know what Doge is? Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.

n

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Trump also said he thought the Senate’s wrangling over the bill was going well;

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n

I don’t want to go too crazy with cuts. I don’t like cuts. There are certain things that have been cut, which is good. I think we’re doing well. We’re going to see, it’s very complicated stuff.

n

(There’s) great enthusiasm, as you know. And I think in the end, we’re going to have it.

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As the Republican’s tax and spending cuts bill debate continues in the Senate, it is clear the marathon voting session is taking its toll on some staffers.

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Here are some pictures…

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The voting session has now reached 45 consecutive votes, setting a new record for the longest ‘vote-a-rama’ in Senate history.

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The previous record of 44 votes was set in March 2008.

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Stanford University will cut $140m from its budget in the coming academic year, citing “consequences from federal policy changes” including “reductions in federal research support and an increase in the endowment tax”. The news came in a letter Jon Levin, the university president, and Jenny Martinez, the provost, sent to faculty and staff last week.

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The budget cuts will likely necessitate staff layoffs, deepening the impact of a staff hiring freeze the university announced in February. The university will continue hiring faculty, “although the pace may be somewhat slowed”, Levin and Martinez wrote. The cuts exclude the School of Medicine, which will make its own budget reductions.

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“We believe deeply in the value of universities, in federal support for basic research, and in the endowment model that underpins financial aid and graduate fellowships. We will continue to advocate for these things,” Levin and Martinez said. “At the same time, we need to be realistic about the current landscape and its consequences.”

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Lawmakers voted 99-1 to strike the AI regulation ban from the bill by adopting an amendment offered by Republican senator Marsha Blackburn.

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Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who announced his retirement on Sunday after voting not to proceed with the megabill, was the lone lawmaker who voted to retain the ban.

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The Senate version of Trump’s legislation would have only restricted states regulating AI from tapping a new $500m fund to support AI infrastructure.

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Major AI companies, including Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI, have expressed support for Congress taking AI regulation out of the hands of states.

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Blackburn presented her amendment to strike the provision a day after agreeing to compromise language with Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz that would have cut the ban to five years and allowed states to regulate issues such as protecting artists’ voices or child online safety if they did not impose an “undue or disproportionate burden” on AI.

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But Blackburn withdrew her support for the compromise before the amendment vote.

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In a statement, the Tennessee Republican said:

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The current language is not acceptable to those who need these protections the most.

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Until Congress passes federally preemptive legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act and an online privacy framework, we can’t block states from making laws that protect their citizens.

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The Republican-led US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a 10-year federal ban on state regulation of AI from Trump’s mega bill, Reuters is reporting. More details soon…

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Johana Bhuiyan is a senior tech reporter and editor for Guardian US, based in San Francisco

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The database was created in collaboration with the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) in an effort to bridge the gaps between disparate information sources to make it easier to determine whether someone is a citizen, according to NPR, which first reported the details of the database.

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The database is the result of an expansion of the systematic alien verification for entitlements (Save) program, made up of smaller databases within the homeland security department, and an integration with information from the Social Security Administration.

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The centralized repository is searchable and can be accessed by state and local election officials to look up the names of anyone trying to vote to determine if they are citizens, according to NPR. Until now, election officials had to ask potential voters for documents verifying their citizenship or rely on a hard-to-navigate patchwork of databases.

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Elon Musk has vowed to unseat lawmakers who support Donald Trump’s sweeping budget bill, which he has criticized because it would increase the country’s deficit by $3.3tn.

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Musk wrote on his social media platform, X:

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Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!

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And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.

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A few hours later he added that if “insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day”.

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With these threats, lobbed at lawmakers over social media, the tech billionaire has launched himself back into a rift with the US president he helped prop up.

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Since taking leave from his so-called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, Musk has sharply criticized Trump’s budget bill, which he has said will undermine his work at Doge by increasing spending.

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You can read the full story by my colleague, Maanvi Singh, here:

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  The Senate bill includes $4.5tn in tax cuts, according to the latest analysis from the congressional budget office, making permanent Trump’s 2017 rates, which would expire at the end of the year if Congress fails to act.

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  The Senate package would roll back billions of dollars in green energy tax credits, which Democrats warn will wipe out wind and solar investments nationwide.

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  It would impose $1.2tn in cuts, largely to Medicaid and food stamps, by imposing stricter work requirements, making sign-up eligibility more stringent and changing federal reimbursements to states. Medicaid provides government-sponsored health care for low-income and disabled Americans.

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  The bill would provide a $350bn infusion for border and national security, including for deportations, some of it paid for with new fees charged to immigrants.

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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will bring “amendment after amendment after amendment to the floor, so Republicans can defend their billionaire tax cuts.”

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He said Democrats would offer amendments to “see once and for all if Republicans really meant all those nice things they’ve been saying about ‘strengthening Medicaid’ and ‘protecting middle-class families’, or if they were just lying”.

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As the marathon session grinds into the early hours of the morning, some lawmakers are finding ways to relax or vent away from the heat of the chamber.

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GOP senators took breaks from the Senate floor as well.

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Republican US senator Tommy Tuberville, of Alabama, smoked a cigar on the Capitol terrace at sunset while other GOP senators took calls and chatted in rooms near the Senate chamber.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the second Trump administration.

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The US Senate is holding a marathon vote on a sprawling budget that is vital to Donald Trump’s agenda and would see sweeping tax breaks and cuts to healthcare and food programmes if passed.

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Senators have convened at the Capitol for a process known as “vote-a-rama”, in which lawmakers will propose amendments to the legislation over what is expected to be many hours.

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Democrats say the bill’s tax cuts would disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of social programs for lower-income Americans.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (yes, it is formally called this) is expected to add an estimated $3.3tn to the national debt over the next decade. Republicans are rushing to pass the bill Trump’s self-imposed deadline of 4 July.

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Republicans – who control both chambers of Congress and are generally loyal to Trump – are heavily divided over how deep welfare cuts should be in order to extend tax breaks in the legislation.

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It is about 2.30am in Washington and it has been over 16 hours since voting began. We are expecting a result in around two and a half/ three hours time. Stay with us for all the latest developments.

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  Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars in support of Trump’s candidacy, has pledged to found a new political party he called the “America Party” and support candidates who did not back the budget bill in future elections.

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  The Senate parliamentarian found that Republicans can include a provision that would block Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood in the “big, beautiful bill”.

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  Trump signed an executive order overturning sanctions on Syria today and issued a memorandum on US policy toward Cuba.

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  The Trump administration sued the city of Los Angeles over policies limiting city cooperation with federal immigration authorities, continuing a confrontation over Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation efforts in the largely Democratic city.

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  The Trump administration informed Harvard University that its investigation found that the university violated federal civil rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, putting its federal funding further at risk.

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  Trump will host Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on 7 July.

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  Trump wrote to Fed chair Jerome Powell again urging him to lower interest rates.

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The White Condo has confirmed that the us will end shipments of air protection missiles and diversified precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles are too low.

“This decision turn into made to construct The US’s pursuits first following a DOD evaluation of our nation’s military give a boost to and assistance to diversified international locations across the globe,” White Condo spokesperson Anna Kelly acknowledged in an announcement. “The energy of the us Armed Forces stays unquestioned — sincere put a query to Iran.”

The US has supplied Ukraine with extra than $66bn in weapons since Russia launched its plump-scale invasion into the country in February 2022. The missiles and diversified munitions the Trump administration is withholding had been promised to Ukraine below the Biden administration.

On Sunday, Moscow fired extra than 500 aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that Kyiv described as the largest air attack up to now of the three-year battle. That you simply might well secure all our coverage of Ukraine here.

Trump publicizes Israel has agreed to 60-day ceasefire in Gaza

Donald Trump announced this day on his social media platform that Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire in its battle in Gaza and entreated Hamas to derive the terms of the agreement.

“The Qataris and Egyptians, who’ve worked very hard to motivate advise Peace, will advise this closing proposal. I am hoping, for the categorical of the Heart East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because this can now not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” he wrote.

The news comes as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to focus on to the White Condo on July 7.

Final month, Trump equally announced a ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Iran conflict on his social media platform sooner than both country would possibly possibly well verify they had agreed to the scheme.

In a single more court ruling this day, a federal heart of attention on ordered the Trump administration to free up almost $13m in funding it had promised Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to proceed reporting in international locations with restricted press freedoms.

U.S. District Favor Royce C. Lamberth voiced his disapproval with the Trump administration for equally delaying funding in April and May possibly well well also.

A federal heart of attention on has ruled that mass layoffs on the Department of Effectively being and Human Servies had been seemingly illegal.

US District Favor Melissa DuBose ordered the Trump administration to end its efforts to downsize and restructure the effectively being agency, granting a preliminary injunction that will block the administration from finalizing or continuing layoffs it started in March.

DuBose acknowledged the states who filed swimsuit in opposition to the Trump administration had confirmed “irreparable afflict” and had been vulnerable to be successful in their case claiming that “HHS’s circulate turn into both arbitrary and capricious moreover to opposite to legislation.”

The department stands by its decision “to realign this organization with its core mission and refocus a sprawling forms that, over time, had change into wasteful, inefficient and resistant to alternate,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told the Associated Press.

The United States denied visa requests for the Cuba ladies’s volleyball crew sooner than their focus on to to Puerto Rico to play in the NORCECA Females’s Final Four in Manati.

The Cuban Volleyball Federation told the Associated Press that 12 athletes, a referee and a whole lot of coaches from the crew had their visa requests denied.

“It’s in point of truth disappointing now not with a purpose to take half in the competitors, which is what I’ve been getting keen myself for,” participant Laura Suarez acknowledged.

In June, the us added Cuba to a checklist of 12 international locations with entry restrictions. The day gone by, the Trump administration issued a unusual memo referring to its policy toward the island nation.

Powell confirms Fed would have slit ardour rates by now had been it now not for Trump’s tariffs

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell acknowledged earlier this morning that the central financial institution would seemingly have already slit ardour rates this year had it now not been for the industrial shock attributable to Donald Trump’s tariff insurance policies.

When asked if Trump’s tariffs on imported goods held up the Fed’s knowing to slit ardour rates, Powell spoke back:

I heart of attention on that’s appropriate.

Talking at a central banking convention in Portugal, he went on:

In halt, we went on secure after we noticed the size of the tariffs and truly all inflation forecasts for the us went up materially as a final outcome of the tariffs.

In response, Trump attacked Powell once again one day of his tour of the controversial unusual detention facility in Florida this morning. Requested if he supposed to deliver his pick for the next Fed chair, Trump acknowledged: “Any individual would possibly possibly well be better than Jay Powell.”

The day up to now

The Senate passed Trump’s sweeping tax and spending megabill by the narrowest of margins – 51-50 – with vice-president JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote after three Republicans – Thom Tillis, Rand Paul and Susan Collins – voted no. Whereas the bill has cleared a first-rate hurdle, it’s below no cases assured that Trump’s self-imposed 4 July slit-off date will seemingly be met, with a range of Republicans in the Condo – which passed its version of the bill final month also by a single vote – already vocalising opposition to the Senate’s changes. As my colleague Chris Stein highlights, the GOP stays sharply divided between “rightwing fiscal hardliners worrying deeper spending cuts, worrying deep spending cuts, moderates cautious of dismantling safety-secure programs, and Republicans from Democratic-led states anticipated to derive a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any in fact one of those groups would possibly possibly well doubtlessly derail the bill’s passage thru a chamber the build the GOP can lose no extra than three votes.” With all that to arrive this week (the excessive-stakes Condo vote is determined for tomorrow), for now this marks a first-rate victory for Trump, who is one step closer to enacting his domestic agenda, implicating all the issues from tax breaks for the wealthy to building the border wall to slashing Medicaid and SNAP, the total while including an estimated $3.3tn to the deficit thru 2034. Not now not up to we don’t deserve to call it the “one mighty, beautiful bill” from now on.

In diversified areas:

• Trump toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial unusual migrant detention detention heart in the far flung Florida Everglades, and well-liked the cruel stipulations that folks despatched there would experience. “You’ll have a quantity of of us that will deport on their very have because they don’t deserve to full up in an Alligator Alcatraz, or all these diversified areas,” Florida governor Ron DeSantis acknowledged. Both he and Trump entreated diversified states to have a look on the model and birth connected facilities. DeSantis and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged detainees would possibly possibly well arrive on the constructed facility as quickly as tomorrow

• Trump then revisited his diagram of “renovating and rebuilding Alcatraz”, with a peek to reopening the horrifying island prison in San Francisco, which has been closed for over 60 years. He posted on Truth Social: “Conceptual work started six months ago, and reasonably a pair of prison trend companies are taking a search at doing it with us. Mild a miniature bit early, nonetheless a whole bunch promise!”

• The Pentagon has halted some shipments of air protection missiles and diversified precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles are too low, Politico stories, citing of us accustomed to the arena.

• Pro-Palestinian Georgetown University pupil, Badar Khan Suri, from India, detained by Donald Trump’s administration nonetheless then launched on a heart of attention on’s uncover, can stay free while combating deportation efforts, a US appeals court ruled.

• USAID will officially cease implementing international lend a hand starting this day, secretary of insist Marco Rubio acknowledged, including that The US’s assistance in due route will seemingly be centered and miniature, focusing on alternate in effect of lend a hand.

• Trump and administration officials threatened to prosecute CNN over what they acknowledged turn into its promotion of a unusual app that permits customers to trace and compare out to handbook sure of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

• The Trump administration raised the likelihood of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for Unusual York City, of his US citizenship over his vocal give a boost to for Palestinian rights. Democrat senator Chris Murphy slammed the hypothesis as “racist bullshit”.

• Trump and Elon Musk’s feud reignited this week with the extinct political allies shopping and selling though-provoking public threats of retribution from Doge to deportation, ending a duration of rapprochement between two of the arena’s most extremely efficient males.

US halts some missile shipments to Ukraine over low stockpiles – Politico

The Pentagon has halted some shipments of air protection missiles and diversified precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles are too low, Politico is reporting, citing of us accustomed to the arena.

“The decision turn into made in early June to withhold some lend a hand promised to Kyiv below extinct president Joe Biden nonetheless it no doubt is handiest taking halt now as Ukraine is beating motivate a pair of of the largest Russian barrages of missiles and drones at civilian targets in Kyiv and in diversified areas,” the document added.

On Sunday, Moscow fired extra than 500 aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that Kyiv described as the largest air attack up to now of the three-year battle. That you simply might well secure all our coverage of Ukraine here.

Pro-Palestinian Georgetown pupil can stay free, US appeals court principles

A pro-Palestinian Georgetown University pupil from India, detained by Donald Trump’s administration nonetheless then launched on a heart of attention on’s uncover, can stay free while combating deportation efforts, a US appeals court has ruled.

A 3-heart of attention on panel of the Richmond, Virginia-basically basically based 4th US circuit court of appeals ruled 2-1 in opposition to the administration’s put a query to that Badar Khan Suri be returned to immigration detention. The 4th circuit acknowledged it came upon no grounds to overturn the decision by US district heart of attention on Patricia Tolliver Giles to uncover Suri’s free up.

“To permit the authorities to undermine habeas jurisdiction by transferring detainees with out mark or accountability reduces the writ of habeas corpus to a sport of jurisdictional conceal-and-search,” heart of attention on James Andrew Wynn wrote on Tuesday.

Suri, 41, turn into arrested in Virginia in March after which moved by the US authorities to Texas, the build he turn into launched in May possibly well well also after the ruling by Giles. Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Heart for Muslim-Christian Thought, share of the Jesuit college’s College of International Carrier.

The Trump administration has attempted to deport international pro-Palestinian pupil protesters while accusing them of being antisemitic, threats to American international policy and extremist sympathizers.

Suri has denied the federal authorities’s allegations that he unfold Palestinian militant propaganda and antisemitism on social media.

Protesters, including some Jewish groups, have acknowledged the US authorities has conflated criticism of Israel’s military assault in Gaza with antisemitism and advocacy for Palestinian rights with give a boost to for extremism.

Human rights advocates have raised free speech and due job concerns over the administration’s actions toward these students.

Varied pro-Palestinian students who had been arrested by the authorities and ensuing from this truth launched below judicial orders consist of Columbia University students Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi and Tufts University pupil Rümeysa Öztürk.

Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is a US citizen. Saleh is from Gaza, in step with the Georgetown University web vow online, which acknowledged she has written for Al Jazeera and Palestinian media shops and worked with the international ministry in Gaza. Saleh turn into now not arrested.

Trump and Musk’s feud blows up again with threats of Doge and deportation

Nick Robins-Early

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s feud reignited this week with the extinct political allies shopping and selling though-provoking public threats of retribution. The blowup, centered round Musk’s opposition to Trump’s signature tax bill as it strikes thru Congress, ends a duration of rapprochement between two of the arena’s most extremely efficient males.

Musk posted escalating assaults in opposition to the sweeping tax and spending bill – which passed thru the Senate earlier this day by a single vote, with three Republicans vote casting no – on his social media platform X behind final evening, calling the legislation “insane” and vowing to model a unusual political celebration if it passed.

In response, Trump claimed he would possibly possibly well “glimpse into” deporting the South Africa-born billionaire, while also suggesting he would possibly possibly well slit authorities subsidies for Musk’s companies or insist the so-called “department of authorities efficiency” (Doge) on its extinct leader.

“Doge is the monster that would possibly possibly well deserve to return and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?” Trump asked newshounds earlier this day.

He turn into later asked by a reporter if he turn into focused on his on-again off-again buddy ripping into the bill again and if he turn into fearful Republicans would possibly possibly well be swayed by the tech billionaire and his money. The president spoke back:

I heart of attention on what’s going to happen is Doge goes to glimpse at Musk, and if Doge looks at Musk we’re going to put a fortune.

Trump added:

I don’t heart of attention on he wants to be enjoying that sport with me.

Musk’s strive to derail the tax bill turn into a first-rate assert in his falling out with the president final month, and the Tesla CEO’s renewed offensive comes at a sensitive time as Trump seeks to shepherd the legislation thru Congress sooner than his self-imposed 4 July slit-off date.

The fight would possibly possibly well test Musk’s political affect over the Republican celebration as he seeks to peel away votes for the bill, moreover to additional deteriorate his once-conclude relationship with Trump.

Trump crew threatens to prosecute CNN over reporting on Ice-monitoring app

Edward Helmore

Donald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they acknowledged turn into its promotion of a unusual app that permits customers to trace and compare out to handbook sure of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

Talking to newshounds in Florida on a commute to focus on to a unusual Ice penal complex in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, the effect of birth security secretary, Kristi Noem, acknowledged her department and the Department of Justice had been taking a search at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock.

“We’re working with Department of Justice to query if we are in a position to prosecute them,” Noem acknowledged, “because what they’re doing is actively encouraging of us to handbook sure of legislation enforcement activities and operations. We’re going to in fact prance after them and prosecute them. What they’re doing is in opposition to the law.”

Trump joined in, announcing the news network – a frequent target of his ire – must even be prosecuted for what he acknowledged had been “fallacious stories on the attack on Iran”, referring to the leak of a Pentagon evaluation that instructed US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities did now not fracture the core parts of the country’s nuclear program and had doubtlessly handiest insist this diagram motivate by months.

CNN defended its reporting of the app thru a spokesperson, announcing:

Here is an app that is publicly on hand to any iPhone individual that desires to derive it. There is nothing illegal about reporting the existence of this or any diversified app, nor does such reporting constitute promotion or diversified endorsement of the app by CNN.

Noem’s feedback came hours after Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, also criticized the news outlet for its reporting on the IceBlock app.

“It’s disgusting,” Homan acknowledged one day of an appearance on the rightwing commentator Benny Johnson’s web display. “I’m in a position to’t heart of attention on we’re living in a world the build the women and males in legislation enforcement are the spoiled guys. It’s already a unpleasant job.”

Homan had been asked referring to the app, which turn into created to document sightings of Ice agents in any given insist. Instrument developer Joshua Aaron lately told CNN that he had launched the app “after I noticed what turn into going down on this country”.

“I needed to full one thing to fight motivate,” Aaron acknowledged, telling the network that the administration’s deportation efforts had been, to him, paying homage to Nazi Germany. “We’re literally observing history repeat itself,” Aaron acknowledged.

Homan also instructed CNN turn into complicit in striking federal legislation enforcement in hazard.

“Here is horrendous that a nationwide media outlet would possibly possibly well be accessible attempting to forecast legislation enforcement operations,” he acknowledged. “I heart of attention on DoJ wants to glimpse at this. They’re crossing that line.”

He added: “We deserve to ship a solid message that we deserve to present protection to the legislation enforcement officers.”