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Universities Sit On Billion-Dollar Endowments While Jacking Up Tuition

By The Daily Caller

Several universities are hiking tuition prices and cutting jobs despite sitting on massive endowments.

Universities are largely blaming the Trump administration’s federal funding cuts for the price increases, but many schools have seen steady rises in tuition for decades and overall increased revenue all while nursing their ever-growing endowments. 

Cornell University is raising its tuition rate by over 4%, bringing the cost to $71,266 for out-of-state students and $48,010 for in-state students, while Duke University’s tuition will jump by nearly 5% to $92,042.

Duke’s price hike marks a 123% increase over the past two decades, despite its endowment steadily increasing over time to about $5 billion. The university’s 2023-2024 fiscal year financial report admitted that the school’s “growth in revenue outpaced expenses.”

At the time, Duke was charging students $83,263 in tuition and other fees and collecting a total of approximately $1 billion in gross tuition and fees even after accounting for financial aid deductions, making up 15% of its total revenue.

Duke is also working to reduce its workforce, offering voluntary buyout agreements to employees. The packages include financial incentives and healthcare in exchange for a three-year separation from the university, in which they can reapply after that period.

Duke did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Weighing similar staffing cuts, Cornell blamed the Trump administration’s federal research grant terminations, saying the university now faces “profound financial challenges.” Cornell announced it was pausing hiring as it reviewed its “programs and headcount.”

As of 2024, Cornell brings in over $900 million from tuition costs and student fees every year, according to its financial records. Cornell’s endowment is valued at approximately $10.7 billion as of 2024, returning about 10% every year.

Cornell did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Several public universities like the University of Michigan (UM) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) are also raising costs by as much as 7.5% for some students while cutting programs and student services.

UMN is raising its rates by 6.5% for in-state and 7.5% for out-of-state students, also pointing to federal cuts. The school operates on a budget of over $5 billion, with a total systemwide endowment of $6 billion.

UMN did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Tuition costs at the University of Michigan (UM) will rise by over 3% for in-state students and just under 5% for out-of-state students while sitting on a nearly $18 billion endowment. The university is blaming ” budgetary impacts of federal actions” and “economic and legislative uncertainty,” according to a June announcement.

A UM spokesman directed the DCNF to the university’s public statement.

College tuition costs have been on the rise for decades, with price increases mostly outpacing inflation. Increased federal financial aid to students has been attributed by some studies to the inflated costs.

The Trump administration has cut billions in grants and contracts to universities, targeting programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) topics or universities that allegedly fail to comply with federal civil rights laws.

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Education Reporter.

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Senate Republicans Lobbying For Green Energy Tax Credits Raked In Donations From Industry

By The Daily Caller

Phasing out Biden-era green energy tax credits is dividing Senate Republicans as they push their latest version of the “big beautiful bill,” and some members of the GOP have a financial incentive to keep the credits rolling.

The Senate’s draft represents a substantial cut to the existing climate-friendly energy tax credits, but some Republicans are pursuing a less aggressive rollback than their House counterparts, according to a report from The Hill.

Several GOP senators who oppose a full repeal argue that even the Senate’s scaled-back proposal goes too far in dismantling the clean energy tax credits established under the Biden Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill is filled with so many aspects that the American people have been demanding — from unleashing energy dominance to tax cuts and stopping the Green New Scam.

Great hour long conversation with @laralogan pic.twitter.com/PwRS4ZVWjF

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) June 13, 2025

Republican Senators who have voiced concerns or pushed back against a “full-scale” repeal of energy tax credits include Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, Utah Sen. John Curtis and West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.

Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, whose state hosts one of the “hydrogen hubs” created under the Biden administration, expressed concern over the bill’s deadline requiring projects to begin construction by the end of the year to qualify for tax credits.

Capito said she’s working to delay that deadline, calling it “a pretty tight timeline,” and adding, “I’m trying to get the date pushed back. I don’t know if I’ll be successful,” according to another report from The Hill.

She has also received $49,200 in campaign contributions from Williams, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based energy company with significant investments in hydrogen infrastructure during the 2024 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets data.

Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford likewise received $54,500 in contributions from Williams during the same time period.

Capito also took $45,325 during the 2024 election cycle from First Energy, an electric utility that has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

A group of four Republicans — Sens. Murkowski, Curtis, Moran and Tillis — have jointly cautioned against a “full-scale” repeal of the energy tax credits enacted by Democrats in 2022.

In their message, they called for each credit to be assessed based on its potential to boost U.S. manufacturing, lower utility costs — particularly in rural communities — and provide stability for businesses that have already made investments under the current framework.

“The United States produces some of the cleanest and most efficient energy in the world, and an all-of-the-above approach — including support for traditional and renewable energy sources — has long been a hallmark of our energy strategy,” the senators wrote.

“To that end, many American companies have made substantial investments in domestic energy production and infrastructure based on the current energy tax framework. A wholesale repeal, or the termination of certain individual credits, would create uncertainty, jeopardizing capital allocation, long-term project planning, and job creation in the energy sector and across our broader economy,” their letter read.

Tillis, has advocated for a “targeted, pragmatic approach” to the energy tax credits, rather than supporting a full repeal.

U.S. Senate has released their version of the new tax bill, energy credit provisions have changed:

Wind & solar tax credits will begin phaseout in 2026 & will receive zero investment tax credits by 2028.

Nuclear, hydropower & geothermal will see tax credits extend to 2036. pic.twitter.com/6wk2vfu5Ml

— Stock Talk (@stocktalkweekly) June 16, 2025

He also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions during the 2022 and 2024 election cycles — both individually and through political action committees — from major financial institutions including Blackstone GroupApollo Global ManagementTruist Financial and Goldman Sachs, according to OpenSecrets (OS).

The firms have collectively invested millions of dollars in clean energy initiatives and companies in recent years.

Collins received tens of thousands of dollars in contributions during the 2022 and 2024 cycles from Blackstone, Goldman and Nextra Energy, which reports to have 55% of its portfolio invested in renewable energy.

Capito also received tens of thousands of dollars from Blackstone during the 2022 and 2024 election cycles.

OpenSecrets also shows Murkowski received tens of thousands of dollars through PACs or individually over the same two cycles from companies like ConocoPhillips, a company dedicated to be the first in the U.S. oil and gas company to set a goal of reaching net-zero operational emissions.

This follows Capital Group Companies‘ announcement in March that it was committing $30.57 million to fossil fuel investments, including a stake in ConocoPhillips.

Curtis has likewise received $59,700 in contributions during the 2024 election cycle from Sunrun, which markets itself as “the #1 home solar and battery company in America.”

“I think that Senator Crapo did a really good job, but there’s more work to be done,” Curtis told The Hill when asked about the big beautiful bill, referring to the Idaho Republican who chairs the Senate Finance Committee. Curtis offered no further details.

Moran adjacently received $38,500 in campaign contributions during the 2024 election cycle from Kit Bond Strategies Group, according to OpenSecrets records.

The firm actively lobbied on behalf of multiple renewable energy companies throughout that time. 

The draft text of the bill, released Monday by the Senate Finance Committee, maintains credits for nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal energy, and does not immediately eliminate subsidies for solar and wind, disappointing Republicans who sought a more aggressive rollback of Democratic climate policies.

The Daily Caller reached out to Tillis, Murkowski, Curtis, Capito, Moran and Lankford for comment but did not receive a response prior to publication.

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Trump Targets Blue Cities With Deportation Strategy

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump explained that he is planning on having his administration target Democratic cities as a part of its latest deportation efforts.

Trump posted a Truth Social on Sunday that he is directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to expand its deportation operations to “America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.” The president added that these cities are the “core of the Democrat Power Center.” Trump explained his Truth Social while at the G7 Summit on Monday, telling reporters that he wants to go after “sanctuary cities” because they have been “overrun by criminals.”

“I want them to focus on the cities, because the cities are where you really have what’s called sanctuary cities, and that’s where the people are. I look at New York. I look at Chicago. I mean, you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor, but the governor is probably the worst in the country — Pritzker — but I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals,” Trump said, naming New York and Los Angeles as well.

“Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country. Of that, vast numbers of those people were murderous killers, people from gangs, people from jails, they empty their jails out into the U.S.,” he continued. “Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities and they think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not going to happen.”

The Trump administration has increased its pressure on leaders of sanctuary cities over the last several weeks. Tom Homan told NBC News government officials could face consequences if they obstruct federal agents’ official actions in response to rioting in Los Angeles, California, that resulted from ICE raids. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and Democratic Illinois Gov J.B. Pritzker later responded in a House Oversight Committee hearing, daring Homan to come and arrest them.

In May, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a comprehensive list of cities, counties and states that were allegedly refusing to cooperate with ICE. The list was later removed after some city leaders argued they shouldn’t be on the list, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller that the list would soon be reinstated.



“These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!” he added.

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Reagan Reese

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USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty $550 Million in Fraud, Bribery Using DEI

By The Geller Report

USAID official and three company executives plead guilty in fraud and bribery scheme involving at least 14 contracts worth over $550 million

USAID Official Roderick Watson took bribes, was showered with lavish gifts— including cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, down payments on two residential mortgages, cell phones, and jobs for relatives.

In exchange for the bribe payments, Watson influenced the award of contracts by manipulating the procurement process at USAID.

Watson faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

Imagine how much more fraud there is…

USAID Official, Three Contractors Plead Guilty To Half-Billion Dollar Bribery Scheme

By  Luke Rosiak

Three government contractors and a USAID official have pleaded guilty to a scheme involving paying bribes in order to steer more than half a billion dollars in foreign aid contracts, the Department of Justice said Friday.

Roderick Watson, a USAID contracting officer, admitted to steering money to multiple companies in exchange for more than $1 million in bribes.

“Watson exploited his position at USAID to line his pockets with bribes in exchange for more than $550 million in contracts,” Guy Ficco of IRS Criminal Investigation said in a statement. “While he helped three company owners and presidents bypass the fair bidding process, he was showered with cash and lavish gifts.”

The scheme was possible because of the federal government’s racial “set-aside” laws known as 8(a) contracting, which allow contracting officers to give contracts to companies owned by minorities, women, or veterans without the usual competitive process.

Walter Barnes III, the founder of a Baltimore-area company predicated on taking advantage of those laws, admitted to paying bribes, including a country-club wedding, cash, and a trip to Martha’s Vineyard.

Barnes’s company is called Vistant, previously known as PM Consulting Group. It was awarded contracts on the pretense that it was “disadvantaged” because Barnes is black, even as it took in tens of millions of dollars. Barnes used a public defender in his court case, drawing a rebuke from the judge that he presumably had ample resources to pay for his own lawyer.

Also pleading guilty was Darryl Britt, the founder of 8(a) contracting firm Apprio Inc., which is received $271 million in federal contracts since 2004. Both companies also admitted criminal liability.

Beginning in 2013, Britt — a member of Carnegie Mellon University’s Business Board of Advisers — bribed Watson to award contracts to Apprio. When an 8(a) firm becomes too large, it “graduates” from its “disadvantaged” status. But minority contracting laws are notoriously exploited, with minority-owned firms existing simply to win contracts, then subcontracting out the work to other firms. That is often done openly, and above board, with “joint ventures.”

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President Trump: China Trade, Tariff Deal ‘DONE’

By The Geller Report

President Trump confirmed early Wednesday that the US reached a “deal” with China following intense, marathon trade negotiations in London.

“Our deal with China is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me,” Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday in full capitalization. “Full magnets, and any necessary rare earths, will be supplied, up front, by China.”

“Likewise, we will provide to China what was agreed to, including Chinese students using our colleges and universities (which has always been good with me!). We are getting a total of 55% tariffs, China is getting 10%. The relationship is excellent! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

How are we vetting these students?

Trump says China trade, tariff deal ‘done,’ awaits his and Xi Jinping’s approval

“FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT, BY CHINA,” President Trump said.

By Natalia Mittelstadt, Just The News, June 11, 2025:

President Trump on Wednesday announced that the deal with China “is done,” and is awaiting his and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s approval.

“OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT, BY CHINA. LIKEWISE, WE WILL PROVIDE TO CHINA WHAT WAS AGREED TO, INCLUDING CHINESE STUDENTS USING OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH ME!). WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%. RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

The U.S. and China reached a framework for a looming trade deal on Tuesday, which came on the second day of negotiations in London.

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Military Spending by Country in 2025

By Royal A. Brown III

Military spending by country for 2025.  What is wrong with this picture?


Top Countries by Military Spending (Defense Budget 2025 Rankings)

Military budgets are one of the key indicators of a nation’s defense priorities and strategic objectives. Countries around the world allocate significant resources to their armed forces, often reflecting geopolitical challenges, technological advancements, and internal security concerns. Military spending not only impacts national security but also influences global power dynamics, trade, and international relations.

As of 2024, global military expenditures have reached unprecedented levels, driven by heightened geopolitical tensions, modernization of defense systems, and increased investments in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. This article delves into the military budgets of the top spenders and analyzes how much of their GDP is allocated toward defense, providing a comprehensive overview of the global defense landscape.

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditure

  1. United States: $811.6 billion
  2. China: $298 billion
  3. India: $81 billion
  4. Saudi Arabia: $73 billion
  5. Russia: $72 billion
  6. United Kingdom: $70 billion
  7. Germany: $57.8 billion
  8. France: $57 billion
  9. Japan: $53.9 billion
  10. South Korea: $49.6 billion

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The United States leads by a wide margin, accounting for over a third of global military spending. This reflects its global military commitments, including NATO operations and Pacific alliances. China, the second-largest spender, continues to modernize its armed forces, emphasizing naval and technological advancements. India, with ongoing border disputes and regional rivalries, ranks third, while Saudi Arabia and Russia focus on advanced weaponry and regional dominance. European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany, and France emphasize NATO contributions and modernization programs. Japan and South Korea prioritize regional security due to tensions with North Korea and China.

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Republican Alina Bonsell ‘The Bombshell’ is Shaking Up NYC Politics

By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com

, NY/PRNewswire/ — With the general election around the corner, Alina Bonsell — dubbed “The Bombshell” by supporters for her unapologetic energy — has officially secured her place on the November ballot for New York City Council District 5.

A moderate Republican with an independent streak, Bonsell is shaking up the political status quo and drawing support from voters tired of party puppets and performative politics.

“I’m not running to represent a party,” said Bonsell. “I’m running to represent people. I’ve lived the dysfunction — from family court injustice to overregulation crushing small businesses. I’m stepping in because too many New Yorkers feel unheard and unprotected.”

A healthcare veteran, real estate entrepreneur, and longtime Upper East Side resident, Bonsell brings a rare combination of tenacity, business sense, and lived experience. As a mother of two who has battled NYC’s broken family court system, she’s making transparency and fairness central to her mission.

Her story is rooted in resilience. At age six, her family fled OdessaUkraine as Jewish refugees escaping anti-Semitism. They came to New York to build a better life — and she’s been fighting for that promise ever since.

Bonsell states, “This city’s been run like a broken machine — no heart, no accountability —Ask the residents of Roosevelt Island. Over 8,000 parents emailed the current Democratic Councilmember, begging for help to bring their high school back. She ignored every one of them. No response. No action. They say she checked out and she doesn’t care. That’s just one of many issues that’s been brushed aside — from public safety to affordability to quality of life. That’s not leadership. That’s neglect. And that’s the opposite of who I am.”

A proud graduate of New York City’s public schools, Bonsell supports expanding access to tutoring, leadership programs, and cultural enrichment — because every child deserves opportunity, regardless of zip code.

While education remains a cornerstone of her campaign, Bonsell’s platform lays out a broader vision to restore safety, accountability, and functionality — both across the district and throughout New York City.

  • Public safety: Institutionalize severely mentally ill individuals who pose a danger to others. Remove violent offenders from subways, parks, and public spaces. Legalize non-lethal safety tools like pepper spray so New Yorkers can defend themselves.
  • Transit: Prioritize boarding for Roosevelt Island residents and install a public staircase or elevator on the 59th Street Bridge.
  • Housing: Provide tax relief for residential and commercial landlords to ease rent hikes and stabilize communities. Legalize short-term rentals when allowed by building bylaws. Reform squatter laws to permit immediate eviction of illegal occupants.
  • Pedestrian safety: Enforce licensing, insurance, and traffic rules for commercial cyclists and e-bike delivery drivers operating with no oversight.
  • Small business survival: Pass a Small Business Protection Bill to shield neighborhood shops from unfair pressures and keep local commerce alive.
  • Family court reform: As a mother personally impacted by a broken system, she’s pushing for accountability, transparency, and due process — to ensure no parent is erased by false narratives or judicial apathy.
  • Animal welfare: Bonsell is a vocal advocate for stronger protections for animals, including improved shelter conditions, tougher penalties for abuse, and expanded funding for rescue organizations — because compassion shouldn’t be selective.

In her own words, Bonsell explains her mission clearly: “I’m running on the Republican line, but I don’t answer to national politics or big party donors. This is an independent, grassroots campaign. New York City is often dubbed the playground for the rich — and year after year, it ranks as the richest city in the world by the number of billionaires who live here. But it suffers in so many other ways. I’m running because I want this city to be rich in what actually matters: rich in safety, rich in cleanliness, rich in opportunity, justice, education, and real community.”

District 5 includes East 58th Street to East 96th Street, primarily east of Third Avenue, as well as Museum Mile and Roosevelt Island. The general election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.

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‘Next’: Schumer Dodges Simple Question About Medicaid For Illegal Immigrants

By The Daily Caller

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question about whether he supported states giving illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health insurance at a press conference Wednesday.

The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act included a provision to penalize 14 states and the District of Columbia who enroll illegal immigrants in state health insurance programs by reducing their federal Medicaid funding for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion population. The Daily Caller News Foundation asked Schumer about the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) preliminary projections that 1.4 million illegal immigrants would lose health coverage as a result of this provision in the House-drafted bill.

Schumer immediately reacted by slamming the president’s tax and spending bill before offering a word salad on his opposition to congressional Republicans’ proposed crack down on states who give illegal migrants free healthcare.

“The bottom line is the overall bill is so awful,” Schumer said. “If they want to aim — if they got some specific issues aim it, don’t just do just do a ‘meat axe,’ chainsaw, across the board and cut everything, everything, everything.”

“This goes way beyond what they’re talking about and hurts everybody,” Schumer added.

The DCNF’s Andi Shae Napier attempted to ask a follow-up regarding Schumer’s opposition to the Medicaid reform provision before he declared “next question.”

The Democratic leader also incorrectly said the CBO projections were “GOP numbers” and questioned the accuracy of the congressional scorekeeper’s estimates.

The Medicaid provision specifically lowers the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP) — the Medicaid match rate the federal government pays to states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act — from 90% to 80%. The proposal would force certain blue states to cover 20% of the cost themselves, putting billions of dollars in Medicaid funding they depend on at risk.

GOP lawmakers and Trump administration officials have defended their Medicaid reforms as preserving the entitlement program’s benefits for those who need it most while eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Savings generated from reforming Medicaid contributed in part to more than $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over a decade in the president’s landmark bill.

“We’re not cutting Medicaid,” Speaker Mike Johnson told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday. “What we are doing is reducing the program wrought with fraud, waste and abuse to make sure that that program is essential to so many people and ensure that it is available for the most vulnerable, and it’s intended for young, single pregnant women, the disabled and elderly.”

Johnson added that 7.6 million people “will supposedly be affected by this,” referring to preliminary CBO projections. “When you look at the numbers and break them down, this is high on public opinion. You are talking about [removing] 1.4 million illegal immigrants.”

A spokesperson for Schumer did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment seeking clarification on the Democratic leader’s position.

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PODCAST: Govt. Regs. Costing Every American $16K a year! Was Pope Francis a Marxist?

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

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Wayne Crews is the Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His work explores the impact of government regulation of free enterprise. Wayne has been published and cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Communications Lawyer, the International Herald Tribune, and others. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, ABC, CNBC, and PBS NewsHour. Prior to joining CEI, he worked at the Cato Institute, the U.S. Senate, and the Food and Drug Administration.

TOPIC: Govt. Regs. Costing Every American $16K a year!

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Dr. Rich Swier is a conservative with a conscience. Rich, a Catholic, is a 23 year Army veteran who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his years of service. Additionally, he was awarded two Bronze Stars with “V” for Valor and Heroism in ground combat, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry while serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. Dr Rich now publishes the the “DrRichSwier.com Report“. A daily review of news, issues and commentary. Dr Rich has a new book out, “DISSENT: The Highest Form of Patriotism.

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VIDEO: AEI Housing Market Indicators, May 2025

By Edward Pinto

AEI Housing Market Indicators May 2025 Briefing

You don’t want to miss this update! This month, we highlighted the following hot housing topics:

  • Recent movements in rates, demand, and supply: Mortgage rates remained elevated at 6.75%, while purchase rate lock volume dropped to a multi-year low—down 24% from the same week in 2019 and 5% year-over-year.
  • Home price appreciation (HPA) and months’ supply trends through March 2025: HPA slowed to 3.0%—its second lowest April rate in the series—while months’ supply declined to 3.2 months, just below pre-pandemic levels as inventory grows faster than seasonal trends
  • FHA appears not to be properly tracking its partial claims, costing taxpayers: FHA is not and collecting partial claims in about a quarter of cases, and taxpayers will be providing free money to certain FHA borrowers. Assuming an average partial claim amount of $23,000-$27,000 and 1.3 million unique claims since 2020, the taxpayer could lose $6.75 billion—not including partial claims completed before 2020.
  • An update on Bureau of Land Management sales to build starter homes: Making just 250 sq. miles of developable BLM land available for sale in 12 Western states would enable the private sector to add 1.75 million homes, a much of which would be family-sized starter homes for the working class. The 2025 Budget Reconciliation process provides an opportunity to address the Western region’s housing and development needs by expediting the disposal of target Federal lands for competitive sale at market prices.
  • Preview: The AEI Housing Success Playbook: The AEI Housing Center’s Housing Success Playbook provides five straightforward, proven policies to build an additional 1.6 million homes annually, and without subsidies. These include allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, legalizing conversions of single-family homes, permitting backyard cottages and ADUs, enabling residential overlays in commercial zones, and developing starter homes on BLM land.
  • The surprising role of large developers in solving the housing crunch: The nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers, with 51.2% of their new construction sales going to FTBs in 2024, up from 38.6% in 2014. This transformation has been driven by building smaller homes and offering financial tools like rate buydowns, while median lot sizes declined by 1,050 sq. ft., enabling greater affordability and access to starter homes.

The AEI Housing Market Indicators (HMI) provide accurate and timely metrics for the housing market. These include mortgage risk/leverage (with a particular focus on agency first-time buyer volume and risk), house prices and appreciation trends, housing sales (new and existing sales whether institutionally financed, cash, or other-financed), and inventory levels. Since the housing market is influenced by many different factors, all need to be considered together to better understand market trends.

WATCH: AEI Housing Market Indicators May 2025 Briefing

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Critics of the Big Beautiful Bill ‘Are Going to Be Wrong,’ Johnson Warns

By Family Research Council

For months, the bright lights have been on the House, capturing the made-for-TV drama of the Republicans’ Houdini-like wins. And while people have come to appreciate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a sort of consensus whisperer, no one is quite sure what to make of his Senate counterpart. But now that Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is in the reconciliation hot seat, America is about to see what Mitch McConnell’s replacement is made of. And as far as first tests go, this is a biggie.

Thune, who’s had a front-row seat for the House debate, knows that the job that awaits is no picnic. Like the speaker, he understands a thing or two about small margins. With just three votes to spare and 53 different opinions on next steps, corralling his caucus will require a mix of patience and thick skin. After listening to his caucus pick apart the draft passed by Johnson’s chamber, Thune’s early message is one of caution. “It’ll have to track very closely to the House bill,” he warned Monday, “because they’ve got a fragile majority and struck a very delicate balance.”

That in itself is a shift from earlier weeks, when Thune seemed to agree with the Republicans eager to make sweeping changes. Now, the South Dakotan says more reservedly, “[T]here are some things that senators want to add to the bill or things we’d do slightly differently.” Based on the soundbites coming out of his caucus, that’s putting it mildly. Goldilocks herself would go mad trying to find the sweet spot between the five factions of senators with competing goals.

There’s the group demanding more spending cuts (Ron Johnson, Wis.; Mike Lee, Utah; Rick Scott, Fla.), and another worried they go too deep (Susan Collins, Maine; Lisa Murkowski, Alaska). There are the pro-Medicaid reform Republicans and the not-so-pro-overhaul Republicans (Josh Hawley, Mo.; Murkowski; Jerry Moran, Kan.; and Jim Justice, W.Va.). While some cheer the end of Biden’s “clean energy credits,” others pan them (Murkowski; Moran; Thom Tillis, N.C.; John Curtis, Utah). While Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) rages against the debt ceiling hike, the more rural state senators are fighting the other chamber’s changes to health and supplemental nutrition programs (Chuck Grassley, Iowa). And remember the SALT caucus of the House? Well, Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) admitted, “There’s not one Republican in the United States Senate” who cares about the state and local tax deduction cap.

And that’s to say nothing of the give-and-take on tax levels, ranges of defense and border spending, and a million other flashpoints tucked in the 1,100-page draft. Add that to the Byrd Bath, which will decide what belongs in reconciliation and what doesn’t, and you have the makings of four long, stress-filled weeks. “There’s always some who think it’s too hot, some [who] think it’s too cold,” observer Neil Bradley shook his head. “Where do you find the point where a majority think it’s just right?”

Great question — one that Thune will be losing his share of sleep over. In the end, he told reporters, “We’ve got to do what we can get 51 [votes] for.”

Johnson can sympathize. In his weekend sit-down with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, he spoke knowingly. “… [A]s all our friends in the Senate know, it took us over a year to reach that equilibrium point in the House,” he said on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill.” The most important takeaway, the speaker reminds Thune’s disgruntled Republicans, is that “we’re going to achieve over $1.5 trillion in savings. … It’s the largest amount of savings of any government that would ever be achieved in the history of mankind. It’s a good start. It’s not enough, but it’s a good start. And I think the Senate’s got to recognize that.”

One of the greatest misunderstandings — even with people in Washington — is that the reconciliation package was never meant to be the vehicle for all of the president’s spending cuts. When Elon Musk and others complain that the bill doesn’t reduce the deficit, there’s a fundamental disconnect about several things, the speaker underscores. For starters, he reminded everyone, “This is just the beginning of a long process. We’re going to have another reconciliation bill, possibly two additional bills, coming up in the near future.”

Secondly — and just as importantly — “you have to remember how the process works,” the speaker stressed. When Americans (including Musk) wonder why there aren’t more Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts in the “one, big, beautiful bill,” it’s simple. “There are two categories of federal spending,” Johnson pointed out. “One is mandatory spending, one is discretionary. The reconciliation package [deals] with the first category, not the latter. So it was not possible — literally, under the rules of the Senate — for us to put DOGE cuts in large measure in the reconciliation package. That has to be a separate instrument.”

And that “separate instrument” is what the White House is working on right now: a rescissions package to roll back discretionary spending that was already approved. Thanks to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, presidents can permanently cancel funding to executive agencies if it’s within a 45-day window and if a simple majority of Congress approves. As we speak, Donald Trump is teeing up the first “of many” rescission proposals, worth about $9.4 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse.

That, Johnson reiterated, is what Congress has been waiting for. “I mean, there was no playbook for what Elon Musk and DOGE were doing. They didn’t have a set of procedures to follow. They had to create them as they went.” And now, he continued, Republicans are ready to make those recommendations a reality. Nothing that Musk’s team did will go to waste, the speaker assured Americans.

“The work will go forward and continue, because what he’s done is he’s brought a spotlight into these agencies — into these bureaucracies that we were never able to see. We got a perspective on it that Congress was never allowed because the bureaucracy was hiding so much data. I mean, we didn’t know, obviously, that Congress was funding transgender operas in Peru and all these other crazy things that were happening under USAID,” Johnson said, shaking his head. Elon found it because he cracked the code. He got inside the belly of the beast with his algorithms, and he uncovered it, and we’ve got to wipe it out.”

But the headlines that the House is adding to an already ballooning deficit are baloney, the speaker argued. “I sent a long text message to [Musk] to explain to him and make sure that he understands that he was looking at [an] analysis of the bill that was not accurate.” He pointed to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the bill and emphasized, “CBO is historically inaccurate. It’s run by Democrats. … They’re not going to give us a fair score. But the important thing to remember about this is that they do not use dynamic scoring. They use static scoring. In layman’s terms, all that means is they don’t give us any credit for the growth. The Big Beautiful Bill is going to be jet fuel to the U.S. economy. It is a pro-growth economy builder. It’s going to lower tax rates, lower regulations, [and] incentivize U.S. manufacturing again. When that happens, we know what [the effect will be].”

Let’s not forget, the speaker reminded Perkins, “We already did this in the first Trump administration, [and we] had the greatest economy in the history of the world after the first two years, because we cut taxes and cut regulations. Now we’re doing it on steroids. So the tremendous growth that will be achieved by this is being totally discounted by CBO. They’re saying it will add to the deficit. It’s not true,” he declared. “By our calculations, we are going to reduce the deficit because of all the growth that we stimulated. Just watch and see that the critics are going to be wrong.”

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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White House Sends Congress $9.4 Billion Rescissions Package

By The Daily Caller

The White House sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package partly aimed at codifying work done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to Congress late Tuesday.

The House Oversight Committee confirmed that Congress had received the package in a post to X.

“The White House just sent Congress a $9.4B rescissions package—including $1.1B in CUTS to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. These outlets ATTACK the America First agenda on the taxpayers’ dime. We’re ready to STOP this propaganda machine,” the post read.

The news comes after Russell Vought, Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), announced May 28 that the White House would be sending a rescissions package to Congress this week.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said May 28 in an X post that he is “eager and ready to act” on the measure. “When the White House sends its rescission package to the House, we will act quickly by passing legislation to codify the cuts,” he wrote.

The upcoming rescissions package is set to include $1.1 billion in funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the organization that helps fund National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It also proposes an $8.3 billion reduction in funding for foreign aid, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), NBC News reported.

The package can be approved in both the House and Senate with a simple majority, enabling Republican lawmakers to move it forward without Democratic backing.

Lawmakers will have 45 days to act on the proposal to rescind previously appropriated funding.

Although Elon Musk has departed DOGE and turned his attention to his various business ventures, the agency is expected to remain active through July 4, 2026.

Editor’s note: A quote has been altered to better reflect the original statement.

AUTHOR

Ashley Brasfield

Reporter.

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THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

By The Daily Caller

THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

Along the way I realized what they were really doing was telling on themselves.

Starting somewhere around 2017 I noticed a trend.

As we all know, after Trump won, there was mass hysteria. The increasingly woke left had lost. It defied their imaginations, and so their imaginations got to work. It couldn’t have been that they weren’t popular, it had to be something else.

Oh I know, they thought, everyone who isn’t me is an extremist.

Over the course of about ten years, the media’s usage of “right wing extremism” and “far right” and “radical right” exploded. Just to give you an indication, The Guardian has used the term “far right” in 6,389 articles versus “far left” appearing in just 376.

The trend was so pronounced that Manhattan Institute bubbas did a study they published in The American Conservative.

Here’s a series of graphs from the article.

But what is it exactly they’re calling extreme?

You, Dear Reader. And me. JD Vance. People who think borders are real. People who think gender is real. Is God real to you? You’re an extremist.

Let’s go further, should people be punished for committing crimes? Yes? You’re an extremist!

Is it okay for a man to get in a boxing ring and beat the pulp out of womenFirst of all, they say, he’s not a man. Oh he is actually? Oops. If the answer is still ‘no,’ guess what: Extremist.

If you won’t refer to an El Salvadorian national who more than likely trafficked human beings for MS-13 as a “Maryland Man” and instead call him an illegal or a “member of MS13” — which are both accurate and literal — then guess what? Yup, extremist again.

You get the point. As the most powerful left wing institutions competed with themselves to get ever further to the left, alienating normal people and losing elections in the process, everyone who was not in their real estate became an extremist to them.

The reality is the reverse though. They’re simply telling on themselves.

Recent months have brought things into sharp focus. Radical student bodies stormed university buildings in support of Hamas, a literal terrorist group. Wine moms and white collar elites burned and defaced Teslas. An illegal alien set a group of elderly people on fire while shrieking “free Palestine.”

This is the contemporary left.

And it isn’t just acts of violence, terrorism, looting, and rioting that they’ve attempted to normalize.

Virtually the entirety of the political left’s intellectual platform is extremist. Castrating mentally unwell children. Legalizing crime. Defending terrorist groups. Policing speech instead of streets. Attacking Western values. Dismantling the family structure. Teaching small children about marginal sexual experiences. Assigning value to people based primarily on their race or, even more perverse, sexual preferences.

They baked a hierarchy of racial and immutable traits into everything they do, from college admissions to government benefits to ads for hardware stores. There are awards in this hyper-liberal bizarro world that you cannot win without publicly reporting the racial makeup of your staff.

Almost nothing that normal people find good in this world is immune.

High School sports, in some ways the last bastion of local community in America, has become an intellectual battleground for a question whose answer is obvious to anyone: Should men physically beat women?

It’s not even a question … unless you work at The New York Times. In that case, it’s worthy of debate.

As the old adage goes in politics, “whatever they accuse you of doing, they’re actually doing.”

AUTHOR

Geoffrey Ingersoll

Editor at Large.

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The National RINO Hunt Team

By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US

  • Too many Republicans don’t stand for anything except reelection
  • The Republican Party needs to become a party of principle again
  • The Virginia Republican Creed is a good start
  • RINOs are Republicans who, among other things, endorse Democrats, agree with their policies, and shut out the grassroots

RINO Removal Project Taking Shape

National Scene

The RINO Removal Project (RRP) launched a few months ago and is gaining traction, as the group zeroes in on primarying a few notorious RINOs in Congress. RRP, which follows America First principles and emerged completely from the grassroots, is going after 10 members of Congress, mostly familiar names.

RINOs love Democrat social spending

  • Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is staking out his spot as a populist defender of Medicaid in opposition to the steep cuts contained in the House-passed megabill to fund President Trump’s domestic agenda.  Hawley will not support a bill that cuts Medicaid benefits.  
  • House Republican leadership’s decision to step back from two pathways to major Medicaid cost savings has fueled contempt among hard line conservatives.  Conservatives chafe at taking Medicaid savings options off table.  Reconciliation battle over potential Medicaid cuts roils Republicans
  • Some House Republicans trying to keep Medicaid expansion for childless able-bodied adults, just tinkering around the edges with work requirement and noncitizen provisions.

Turncoat Tillis – RINO Senator Thom Tillis, who voted to confirm Biden’s radical pick for Attorney General Merrick Garland, told reporters that he opposes the nomination of Ed Martin for DC US Attorney

Now that Sen. John Cornyn has been cornered, and is facing a legitimate primary contender who will galvanize the MAGA movement in Texas against him, Loomer Unleashed can exclusively confirm that Cornyn has turned to the ugliest factions of the Republican Establishment for assistance in defeating Ken Paxton.

Ron DeSantis Slams Congressional Republicans for ‘Betrayal of the Voters Who Elected Them’.  “To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them,” he posted.

It’s hard to believe that we are in the year 2025 and there are still some Republicans – including Vice President JD Vance, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, and even one of Donald Trump’s Nominees to sit on the National Labor Relations Board – who favor forced unionization in the workplace.  So much for the GOP being the freedom party.

Three House Republicans Reportedly Holding Up Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood:  Reps. Mike Lawler, Jen Kiggans and Brian Fitzpatrick were among moderates who told House GOP leadership they oppose cutting federal funding to Planned Parenthood via reconciliation

  • Pro-life forces in Congress have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood, but the road ahead is far from easy.  Yet the effort to excise “big abortion’s” slush fund stands in danger of faltering over intra-party squabbles. This is an appropriate time for President Trump to step in and unite the GOP

GOP Grifters:  A party for Trump’s first 100 days was billed as ‘official’ — it was anything but that.  Attendees of the event and local Republican organizers have come out against the event, its hosts, and the entire premise. They called it a “scam” and a “grift.”

  • To its credit, the local Arlington, Virginia GOP unit did its best to warn people about this

FL

Florida RINOs working with communists and voting with Democrats to defeat Governor DeSantis on tough immigration laws, open carry, etc.

WI

Republicans proposing expansion of early voting, a Democrat idea

May 2025

GOP Senators Fight for Democrat Energy Subsidies

National Scene

GOP senators fight for Democrat energy subsidies – Four senators sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune asking “to preserve energy tax credits included in the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act in the impending budget reconciliation bill.” The letter was signed by Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, John Curtis of Utah, Jerry Moran of Kansas, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

Senator Josh Hawley ‘evolves’, won’t vote to cut Medicaid which is a major driver of the budget deficit; supports Democrat amendment to kill effort to find Medicaid savings

  • What is wrong with these people?  they get to Washington and lose their principles.  Makes you wonder if they had any to begin with.

CO

In one of the strangest political strategies ever, the new Colorado GOP leadership team (Brita Horn, Darel Lee Phelan and Russ Andrews) have publicly announced they and the Republican Party will not talk about or take a position on any legislation proposed in the Colorado State legislature.

  • This means the state party will no longer weigh in on Democrat priorities on abortion, gun control, parents’ rights, or anything else, no matter how extreme.
  • One activist asked: “We are supposed to all work for Republican candidates chosen by unaffiliates and it doesn’t matter what they believe in according to the new leadership. What’s the point of being a Republican anymore?”

Instead of staying and fighting the good fight, these five elected Republicans (Mary Bradfield, Rose Pugliese as always, Anthony Hartsook, Rick Taggart, and Matt Soper) sided with the Democrats in agreeing to take $30M from Colorado schools, to fund Democrat projects, like removing children from their parents if their parents don’t agree to allowing their children to “trans out” and be groomed by the adults around them.

FL

Governor ZigZag –

MT

GOP-controlled legislature passes bill purporting to ban foreign funding of ballot initiatives, but the bill is so bad conservatives ask the Governor to veto it

ND

Republican Governor vetoes school choice bill

SC

Conservatives accuse state GOP of rigging the vote to reelect state party chair Drew McKissick to a fifth term

TN

TN may wear the label of a deep red state, but after the 2025 legislative session, grassroots conservatives are waking up to a harsh reality.  Despite holding more than 80% of the seats in the General Assembly, TN’s Republican supermajority repeatedly betrayed core conservative principles

  • “These guys and gals as it were, have no care at all that they pass legislation and kill legislation in a completely self-serving manner that ignores the will of the people. And it seems to have gotten worse as President Trump has returned to the White House, as though the country and Tennessee’s support of the president, is somehow extended to THEM. They act with impunity and hubris. They need to be stopped.” – TN RINO hunter 

TX

54 Republicans join 41 Democrats to pass bill to give $5B to rich investment firms instead of lowering property taxes

The GOP-controlled TX House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at criminalizing political memes.  The bill, HB 366, would imprison offenders for a minimum of one year if the meme does not have a government-approved disclaimer.

April 2025

Anti-RINO Forces Coalescing

The National RINO Hunt Team is gratified there are now more news sources trained on RINOs.  NRHT has been at it since 2022.  Anti-RINO forces are finally coalescing and the tide is definitely turning in our favor.

Spotlight on NE

This guy has left the reservation and is out of control –
Rep. Don Bacon (RINO-NE) is now echoing Democrat talking points by publicly calling for President Trump to fire Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — all based on a debunked New York Times smear

  • Go.  Just go.
    Don Bacon considers retiring after feeling heat from conservative activists

CO

RINO Watch Colorado paints bleak picture of state GOP

  • Colorado is already a one-party state with Democrats controlling the Governorship, the House, the Senate and every state-wide office along with every state judge. How could it get worse? Well, the Republican Party could just disappear, devoured by a three headed Hydra monster of Kirkmeyer, Ganahl and Chairman Horn which is happening now.
    – Their grassroots training is intended to move things leftward and groom future RINOs.  
    – Weld County was overtaken by RINOs due to massive funding from New York Democrats lead by the leftwing daughter in law of Rupert Murdoch, Kathryn Murdoch.
  • Republican lawmakers in Colorado sponsoring legislation to elevate party precinct leaders with no political affiliation in the selection process when legislative vacancies occur – huh?

GA

RINOs covering up thousands of fake duplicate ballots from 2020 election; activists awaiting explanation.

LA

State Treasurer calls for support in election bid to oust ‘RINO Turncoat’ Sen. Cassidy.  After recalling his work history with President Trump, Fleming characterized his electoral opponent Senator Bill Cassidy (R), as a “RINO Turncoat” and disloyal to his political party of choice, citing Cassidy’s vote to impeach President Trump in 2021.

MT

State GOP demands already-censured Senator Wendy McKamey stop obstructing bill to ban foreign funding of ballot initiatives

ND

North Dakota Republican Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a bill that would have required school districts to keep books determined to be “sexually explicit” out of the reach of students

PA

Oh look, our “Republican” State Rep. Tom Mehaffie (PA-106) is celebrating “Carbon Neutrality” AGAIN.  He’s also voted with the Democrats for every PA version of the Green New Scam & sponsors gas stove bans.

SD

South Dakota’s new Republican Party chairman is a former Democrat, but he’s been a Republican for nine years. Now he’s concerned about “Republicans In Name Only,” or RINOs, and wants to weed them out.

TN

IVF bill, introduced by Republicans and supported by Democrats and Planned Parenthood, weakens state’s abortion ban and opens the door to abortifacients and selective abortion

TX

Republicans facilitating Muslim takeover of Texas

Tarrant County GOP Resolution censures Rep. Giovanni Capriglione for failing to vote for the Republican Caucus nominee for Speaker of the House, elevating Democrats to subcommittee and vice-chairs, etc.


Congressional Republicans Want to Tax the Rich

National Scene

Republicans in Congress are considering increasing taxes on the rich as a part of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of ambitious legislative priorities, a striking development that breaks with decades of party orthodoxy and is spurring alarm bells from traditional conservatives.

  • Tax the rich?  We have the Democrats for that.  What do we need you for?

AL
This man is giving Republicans a bad name –
Rep. Corey Harbison R-AL rarely attended sessions in 2024 and 2025 but remained on the roll, raising questions about accountability and transparency in legislative attendance.

CO

GOP LAWSUIT AGAINST BRITA HORN NOT OVER
The party is suing Brita Horn and the others who falsely claimed that they were the real officers of the state GOP due to a meeting which an El Paso District Court found to be fraudulent.  The $100,000-plus she may owe to the GOP is a Party asset she cannot simply cancel because she is Party Chair.

FL

Republican lawmakers’ plan to sabotage DeSantis has been in the works since November

More pro-developer bills cooking in Republican-controlled Florida legislature – e.g., HB1118, which removes the power of citizens to stand against local development. There are several additional bills in the process of passage by the Florida legislature, other than 1118, which take away citizens’ rights to govern their own communities. All seem to be geared towards development.

Florida Republicans going wobbly on the Second Amendment after FSU shooting

MI

Second Time’s the Charm? Rogers Takes Another Shot at Michigan Senate Race.  Rogers is supported by a number of supposed conservatives but, as we previously reported: Former MI Congressman Mike Rogers is a deep-state RINO and currently the RINO favorite to run in the U.S. Senate race in 2024 in MI.  The problem is he doesn’t even live in MI, having moved to FL for “business opportunities.”

MT

You can run, but you can’t hide:  GOP Reps. Courtenay Sprunger & Randynn Gregg seen exiting the chamber before the property tax relief bill that died by one vote.

Yes, we got fooled again – Senator gets elected as Trump supporter, goes ‘bipartisan’.  Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) was elected to the Senate last year as a full-throated supporter of President Donald Trump, promising to “back him up 100% of the time.”  But during his nascent Senate tenure, Sheehy has become known more for bipartisan legislating than anything else.

OH

As President Donald Trump ramps up attacks on the judiciary, the Republican-led House voted to limit district court judges’ ability to issue the nationwide injunctions that have hampered some of his executive actions.  The vote was 219-213, with just one Republican, Mike Turner of Ohio, joining all Democrats in opposing it. The bill now heads to the Senate.

TN

A controversial bill to eliminate local GOP caucuses passed the Republican-controlled Tennessee House, despite warnings from Rep. Gino Bulso about its unconstitutionality.

Fiscal shenanigans in GOP-led House – the invoice for HB855 gets added after passage.  Now taxpayers are stuck with an $8M bill. Republicans Jack Johnson and Lee Reeves led the charge—while their own wives stand to benefit. Deception, exposed.

State GOP upholds grassroots win in Williamson County GOP leadership contest – Despite cries of a “rigged” vote, the Tennessee GOP State Executive Committee unanimously upheld the Williamson County GOP reorganization, citing no evidence of fraud or malice.

TX

Sen. John Cornyn claims fictitious Trump endorsement

Ken Paxton: “He [Sen. John Cornyn] doesn’t represent the values of Texas. He has taken positions that are extremely unpopular, at least in the Republican base, and I think many Texans, as it relates to guns, as it relates to the border, as it even relates to President Trump,” said Paxton, 62.


Run, Ken, Run!

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he will run against RINO Senator John Cornyn in 2026.  “It’s definitely time for a change in Texas,” Paxton said. 

National Scene

Senators voted 54 to 45 to confirm Elbridge Colby to serve as the Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy with former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky the lone Republican to vote “no” on the nomination

RINO Rep. Don Bacon (RINO-NE) announced that he would be moving to undercut President Trump’s bold move to reshape the global economic order with reciprocal tariffs on countries that have taken advantage of America for years

The U.S. House has passed Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) No Rogue Rulings Act, which will place restrictions on federal District Court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions.  One Republican, Rep. Mike Turner from Ohio, voted to empower activist judges.

A supposedly conservative group (Plymouth Union Public Advocacy) pushing a Democrat priority,  launching six-figure ads urging GOP senators to extend Biden’s jumbo Obamacare subsidies

CO

RINO queen Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer cuts deal with Dems to kill grassroots effort to vote to opt out of state’s disastrous open primary system.  The donor controlled UniParty/Establishment faction of the CO Republican Party launched a three-pronged attack on the effort, which aims to return to closed primaries where you must be a Republican to vote in the GOP primary.

FL

Florida’s Republican Legislature Rebels Against Governor DeSantis.  The biggest surprise in the legislature’s immigration bill, however, is the designation of the Commissioner of Agriculture as Chief Enforcement Officer.  Commissioner Simpson has a track record of being weak on immigration enforcement (representing agricultural interests) and AWOL on election integrity.

GOP-controlled Senate committee advances bill that panders to big developers by preventing local referendums to regulate housing density

MN
Prominent Republicans unite to fight Action 4 Liberty, a nominally grassroots group that is gaining ground in MNGOP politics

  • the way we hear the story, though, not every grassroots conservative in the state likes what A4L is doing

OK

Republican state Attorney General donated to Biden, but now praises Trump’s “decisive leadership” to boost AG’s run for Governor

TN

GOP-led House committee advances bill to strip parties of right to hold caucuses in preemptive strike to neutralize rising grassroots conservatives

Republican-led Senate committee lets grassroots-supported bill to close party primaries die


Congressional Republicans Torpedo Trump Agenda

National Scene

The Traitor Caucus: Eight Republicans Join ALL 213 Democrats To Bring House Voting to a Halt.  Nine House Republicans joined all 213 Democrats Tuesday to keep alive a bill that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to cast proxy votes for three months after their child’s birth.

Senate Votes to Sabotage President Trump’s Canadian Tariff Policy With Four Republicans Casting the Decisive Yes Votes:  Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul.

  • The point is not whether you like Trump’s tariffs.  Most Republicans did, but four broke ranks and voted against the party.


RINO Dan Crenshaw praises Liz Cheney as a “principled leader” with a “backbone” and “fierce intellect”

  • this would be the same Liz Cheney who went out and campaigned for Democrat Kamala Harris?  Dan, you are truly lost.

Senate GOP budget keeps Biden’s Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare spending increases

Republicans who are on record supporting some of the taxpayer-funded subsidies in the “Inflation Reduction Act” could gum up the works for President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut wasteful spending, according to energy policy analysts.

Rep. Luna quits House Freedom Caucus, accusing it of operating outside its guidelines and brokering backroom deals that undermine its core values

CO

WELD COUNTY RINOS BULLY THEIR WAY TO VICTORY
The Weld County officers and bonus delegates were unanimously opposed to Dave Williams and any of his Grassroot supporters.  The Weld County delegates even had a team uniform with red shirts adorned with phrases on back attacking Williams. They proudly declared themselves to be RINOs and some even had rhino hats on. They bullied and screamed at any Grassroots delegate who wandered over to their side of the auditorium. Seated with them were Republican Congresspersons Lauren Boebert and Gabe Evans.

Rep. Lauren Boebert joined Antifa efforts to prevent Steve Bannon from speaking at the CO GOP Centennial Dinner

New CO GOP Chair Brita Horn campaigned on “unifying” the Party.  Less than a week into the new administration, they have a FAILING Unity score.

FL

Rep Linda Chaney is claiming that this bill (HB 1381 supports Pres Trump’s Executive Order, but the bill lacks citizenship check for vote by mail and messes up audits and recounts

DeSantis rips FL House Republicans for ejecting a US Senator from an office formerly used by Marco Rubio because they are against immigration deportations by President Trump

GA

Georgia Republicans push last minute bill to limit public access to lawmaker and police records

MN

Conservatives across Minnesota have long awaited the truth surrounding the mystery Wyoming-based company, 1972-10, which received tens of thousands of dollars from contracts with the Republican Party during the reign of RINO David Hann

The MNGOP State Executive Committee again voted to disenfranchise the Grassroots Patriots of Otter Tail County. This is the Establishment’s next step after to ban the group from their own convention.

RINO Tom Emmer’s puppet elected CD6 chair after opponent blocked from speaking and running for the position, but CD7 conservatives unite to win two key party positions

MT

Montana GOP Purges 9 Turncoat Republican Senators for Backing Democrats, Says They Are No Longer Recognized as Republicans

TN

Tennessee bill SB799/HB855 is seen as retaliation after grassroots conservatives won a local GOP convention. Critics say it’s a power grab by establishment politicians to change election rules after losing, limiting local party control.

SB777, a bill to close open primaries and curb crossover voting, was procedurally killed in the Senate State and Local Government Committee. Senator Adam Lowe (R-Calhoun) moved to present the bill—but not a single member of the committee seconded his motion. The bill was neither discussed nor voted on. It simply died in silence.

What should have been a civil policy hearing on Tennessee’s controversial SB799 turned into a public spectacle when Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Hamilton County) launched into a heated, sarcastic, and at times aggressive exchange with Steve Hickey, the newly elected Williamson County GOP Chair and U.S. military veteran, during a Senate committee hearing.

TX

Texas AG Ken Paxton Would Crush RINO Senator John Cornyn in GOP primary

  • Paxton has teased running, but has not declared.

Lawlessness in Texas: RINO Texas House Speaker Caught Fabricating Quorum — Caught Red-Handed Counting 40 Absent Lawmakers as ‘Present’ Breaking State Law

The Texas Legislature RINO List

WA

Jarrod Sessler was grassroots-favored 2024 candidate against Dan Newhouse in CD4. Jarrod was endorsed by Trump and was the Republican primary winner to go up against Newhouse in the General, but lost to the Establishment RINO Newhouse.


American Renaissance Network

American Renaissance Network (ARN) is looking for volunteer activists to fill spots on its Guardians of History and National RINO Hunt teams and for ARN’s next short-term project – taking on the New York Times.  These are not honorary positions.  Work is expected.  All spots are competitive.

Guardians of History – This influential team fights back against the Woke Mob that has taken over such national historic sites as Monticello, Montpelier, Colonial Williamsburg, etc.  Recent initiatives include confronting the Mellon Foundation for funding Woke historical initiatives, and firing back against critics of America’s 250th birthday celebration. Archives here.  The ideal candidate would be a history buff who is upset by the Left’s relentless attacks on America’s founding.  The team meets for 30 minutes at 11 a.m. ET on Saturday mornings by videoconference (dial-in option available).  Manageable work and attendance requirements must be met to stay on the team.

National RINO Hunt Team – This nationally networked team endeavors to return the Republican Party to a party of principle again.  We fight the RINOs who vote with Democrats, resist election integrity efforts, promote illegal immigration, or otherwise undermine GOP ideals.  The team produces the RINO Round-Up newsletter which is seen each week by 10,000 to 14,000 people nationwide.  The team also consults with grassroots GOP candidates on campaign strategy and messaging.  The ideal team member would be a veteran of Republican Party politics and is currently involved in campaigns, precinct organizing, building conservative caucuses within local or state GOP units, etc.  The team meets for 45 minutes at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday evenings by videoconference (dial-in option available).  Manageable work and attendance requirements must be met to stay on the team.

New York Times Project – A previous ARN Conservative Army short-term project confronted the New York Times on a hit piece it had published about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  The NYT responded to our criticism.  This encourages us to go at them again for its many transgressions and left-wing bias, starting with covering up the Holocaust and the Holodomor.  The team will assemble a litany of NYT’s transgressions and explore ways to weaken the paper’s undeserved influence among the public, in line with ARN’s mission to organize the grassroots to take down the American Left.  Ideal team members will have media or public affairs knowledge that will help us assemble the case against the NYT, or business savvy we can use to uncover weaknesses in the NYT’s business offerings, or social media skills to help us roll out our campaign when we’re ready.    The team will meet for 30 minutes at 8 p.m. ET on Monday or Thursday evenings over the next two or three months by videoconference (dial-in option available).  Manageable work and attendance requirements must be met to stay on the team.

Try out for the team!  If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work, please indicate your interest and your qualifications by reply mail to: cwdirect@verizon.net.

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THE DIFFERENCE: DeMS13 = Hate, MAGA = Hope!

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

America was at a crossroads on November 5th, 2024. They had to choose between a party that hid the fact that a President, for four years, was actually an autopen. America was run by a cabal of bureaucrats, not a duly elected leader.

A rival party’s presidential candidate, for the first time in American history, became a convicted felon.

Money was wasted, wars were started, friends like Israel were ignorded, massacres occurred globally, while the bureaucrats laughed and profited at the expense of the American people.

Policies were enacted that defied scientific truth including the greatest lie of all that a man could be a woman and vis-a-versa. This led to a society and culture in which our schools became indoctrination centers, our media outlets spewed out propaganda. Schools began to teach our children what to think, not how to think. In just four short years the beaucrats and teachers’ unions dumbed down America’s children. Universities became hot beds for socialist and Islamic terrorism.

Americans were imprisoned and many died, including 13 U.S. soldiers during the Afghanistan pull out. Businesses were closed due to a fake COVID crisis. The people suffered from a vaccine that harmed or even killed them.

Families and entire communities were destroyed during multiple hurricanes and the government did nothing to help.

Millions of criminal illegal aliens were allowed to cross our borders with the help of the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. and so-called sanctuary cities and states.

Millions of Americans lost their jobs and were replaced with cheap illegal alien workers.

Gas prices rose due to the anti-fossil fuels Green New Deal, that harmed everyone. The government actually believed in the myth that with enough electric vehicles, windmills, solar panels, regulations and mandates they could actually control the weather.

Then something miraculous happened.

A movement began to take shape. It was based upon a simple notion to take America back from the bureaucrats and return power to the people. This movement slogan was Make American Great Again. It’s leader was a man who served as President of these United States of America. It was a man who lost an election in 2019 because the party of bureaucrats stole it. But that leader would not give up and he would return once again to lead the MAGA movement.

That leader became the 47th President despite numerous assassination attempts, media propaganda and a lawfare campaign not seen before. He won against all odds.

Why? Because the people knew that he was their last best hope to save our Constitutional Republic.

Did the party of bureaucrats get loud and clear messages from the people? No.

Once the 47th President was sworn into office the party of bureaucrats turned into the DeMS13 party. They declared war on the new president in the streets, in the courts and in the halls of Congress.

This new DeMS13 party protected the criminal illegal aliens rather than we the American citizens. They voted against every bill proposed by the new president, not for political reasons, but out of spite and hate for the American people.

The DeMS13 party voted against cutting waste, fraud and abuses against Americans. They voted against tax cuts. They voted unanimously to keep the status quo of big government, more regulation, more spending, more wars and more hate.

You see the DeMS13 party got rich off of their policies. They became millionaires, as did their families, while the people suffered. The became what they imported in the millions: human traffickers, gangsters of the worst and most evil in American history.

They dug themselves in a hole so deep that it reached hell, and yet they just can’t stop digging.

But the American people have stood fast like the Patriots at Lexington and Concord. They fought back against the King of England. Let today’s Patriots fight against the DeMS13 party.

As we approach the 2026 midterm elections we have now only two parties, traitors and patriots. On the 250th anniversary of our Republic these MAGA patriots and solidify its control of the three branches of government by electing their fellow patriots. Patriots who stand for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Patriots who stand with the God of Abraham and his son Jesus of Nazareth. Patriots who are faithful parents and grandparents, and yes, great grandparents.

America wil continue to be the city on the hill, shining brightly and envied by all as a place where anyone can come to to embrace its values and traditions.

The DeMS13 party is the party of hate. The MAGA Patriots are the party of hope!

Let’s all Keep America Great!

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AMAZING: Trump Reduces U.S. Goods Trade Deficit By HALF, Falls 46 Percent in April

By The Geller Report

Economic numbers came out this — higher personal income, lower inflation, and reduced trade deficits.

And the Democrats hate it and are upending the country to stop Trump. As yourselves why.

  • Inflation just dropped to 2.1% — BELOW expectations.
  • Personal income SURGED 0.8% in April — nearly TRIPLE what economists predicted.
  • Trade deficit cut IN HALF — the largest monthly drop on record.

U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Falls 46 Percent in April as Imports Decline

By Andrew Moran, The Epoch Times, May 31, 2025;

The U.S. goods trade deficit declined sharply in April from a record in March as the effects of front-running President Donald Trump’s tariffs faded.

According to an advance estimate from the Census Bureau, the goods trade gap plummeted 46 percent, to $87.6 billion, from the all-time high of $162.25 billion registered in March. This represented the smallest trade deficit for goods since December 2023.

While economists had anticipated a substantial slowdown, last month’s reading came in better than the consensus forecast of $141.5 billion.

Goods imports tumbled 19.8 percent, or $68.4 billion, to $276.1 billion. Exports of goods rose by 3.4 percent, or $6.3 billion, to $188.5 billion.

Advance retail and wholesale inventories were virtually unchanged at $803.5 billion and $906.9 billion, respectively.

Leading up to the president’s sweeping global tariff plans on April 2, companies had rushed to stockpile consumer goods to avoid the anticipated levies.

Declining imports are expected to bolster the GDP growth rate in the current quarter. Imports are subtracted from the GDP calculations because they measure the value of goods and services produced domestically.

Early forecasts suggest that the U.S. economy may experience a rebound in the second quarter.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s widely watched GDPNow Model points to a 3.7 percent expansion in the April–June period. This is up from the regional central bank’s 2.2 percent estimate prior to the publication of the goods trade deficit.
In the first quarter, the U.S. economy contracted by 0.2 percent—the reading was revised upward by a hair from the initial estimate of negative 0.3 percent—primarily driven by soaring imports and a modest decline in government spending.

In addition to U.S. businesses perhaps temporarily pulling back on their spending, individuals also tempered their consumption.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, personal spending rose 0.2 percent in April, down from the 0.7 percent increase in the previous month.
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Personal income, however, surged at a pace that was significantly better than expected, at 0.8 percent.

The data do not signal an economy on the brink of disaster, but the numbers illustrate how tariffs can facilitate specific patterns, says Joseph Brusuelas, the chief economist and principal at RSM.
“It is an example of how the threat of higher tariffs dramatically affects spending by businesses, first in the front-running of purchases to avoid higher costs, and then in the pullback once inventories are built up,” said Brusuelas in a May 30 note.
“This data only adds to the uncertainty around the economic outlook at a time when trade policy changes on an almost daily basis.”

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House GOP Looks To Set $9.4 Billion DOGE Cuts In Stone

By The Daily Caller

Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Wednesday that the next agenda item on House Republicans’ calendar could be passing legislation aimed at slashing more government spending.

Johnson said Wednesday that House Republicans are “eager” to codify cuts to congressionally-appropriated funding made by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) following the House’s passage of the president’s “one big, beautiful bill” on May 22. The White House will send a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress to codify some of DOGE’s work as early as next Tuesday, a spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The rescissions package will include $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which partly funds the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in addition to an $8.3 billion spending reduction to foreign aid agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Though the cuts represent a small amount of discretionary spending, GOP lawmakers have sharply criticized these programs, alleging they have recklessly spent taxpayer money and propagated left-wing ideology.

Axios was first to report the White House’s plans to transmit the rescissions package to Congress.

Both chambers of Congress can pass the rescissions package by a simple majority vote, allowing GOP lawmakers to effectively bypass Democratic opposition. Once the White House sends the DOGE cuts to the House and Senate, lawmakers will have 45 days to vote on clawing back the funding.

Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will need virtually every Republican to get behind the rescission effort due to both conferences’ slim majorities.

“The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand,” the House Speaker wrote on X Wednesday morning.

Johnson also argued that House Republicans’ passage of the president’s sweeping tax and spending package builds on DOGE’s work to eliminate wasteful spending. The bill notably achieves more than a $1.6 trillion decrease in mandatory spending over a ten-year period in part by reforming Medicaid and food assistance programs.

The House-drafted bill notably bars notably 1.4 million illegal migrants from receiving Medicaid coverage at the state level and implements work requirements that require certain able-bodied, childless adults to work or volunteer 20 hours a week in order to enroll in the program.

Codifying the DOGE cuts, on the other hand, would reduce discretionary spending, which Congress votes on every year through the appropriations process. Johnson said House Republicans will “swiftly implement” Trump’s budget request for the fiscal year 2026 process, which also outlined more than $160 billion in cuts to discretionary spending.

Musk, who recently announced a step back from overseeing DOGE, has conversely suggested that the deficit increases in the president’s landmark bill far outweigh the floated spending cuts and will add to the national debt over a ten-year window.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk told CBS News in an interview that is slated to air in full Sunday.

Both Trump administration officials and congressional proponents of the president’s legislation have panned this view, arguing that a combination of economic growth generated by the bill’s tax cut provisions and undoing Biden-era regulations will shrink budget deficits.

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has championed clawing back funding through her purview on a DOGE-focused House oversight panel, said Wednesday that the initial rescissions package should be one of many that House Republicans ultimately pass.

“Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in,” Greene wrote on X. “As a country, we cannot survive our national debt and honestly, we may be past the point of return. We should be aggressively attacking our debt and aggressively, cutting all waste fraud, and abuse and unnecessary programs.”

“Our future literally is in peril,” Greene added.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the confirmation from the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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Republicans Brace for the Next Wave of Big Beautiful Debates

By Family Research Council

When Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) hauled the “one, big, beautiful bill” over its first mountain — House passage — he had one request. To the GOP senators, he said, “I encourage them to modify the package that we’re sending over there as little as possible.” Thinking back over the warring factions in his chamber, he added, “Because we have to maintain that balance, and it’s a very delicate thing.” But in the days since last Thursday, it’s not clear if any Republicans, including the one in the White House, are listening.

Watching the House from a safe distance through its long nights, tense meetings, mark-ups, and ferocious jockeying for different priorities, senators sent a steady drip of commentary to the press about what they would change and language they thought could go farther. Now that the bill sits squarely in their laps, some have signaled at choppy waters ahead. While almost everyone is complimentary of the job the speaker has done, they also recognize that this is their chance to put a different mark on Donald Trump’s signature legislation.

“I want to get a deal done,” Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) insisted. “I support the president’s agenda. I support the border, I support the military, I support extending the Trump tax cuts … But [we’ve] got to live in reality here: [We’ve] got a fiscal crisis.”

Others, like Kentucky’s Rand Paul (R), have been more critical. For weeks, he’s tried to rally the troops to cut more spending. “… [T]he math doesn’t add up,” the chamber’s outspoken fiscal hawk warned. “They’re going to explode the debt by — the House says $4 trillion, the Senate’s actually been talking about exploding the debt $5 trillion.” Surely, he persisted, “there’s got to be someone left in Washington who thinks debt is wrong and deficits are wrong and wants to go in the other direction,” he said.

Johnson took the disapproval in stride. “I agree wholeheartedly with what my dear friend, Rand Paul, said. I love his conviction, and I share it,” he told Fox News’s Shannon Bream. “The national debt is … the greatest threat to our national security, and deficits are a serious problem,” the speaker said. “What I think Rand is missing on this one is the fact that we are quite serious about this,” the Louisianan emphasized. “This is the biggest spending cut in more than 30 years.”

The fault-finding isn’t a surprise. The speaker endured plenty of it from his own House circles, including perpetual nitpicker Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) who called the House package “a debt bomb ticking” before voting against it. Even the Senate’s Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) argued that the “number one goal of this reconciliation ought to be to reduce that 10-year and those annual deficits, not increase them.”

Sitting down with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins for “This Week on Capitol Hill,” the speaker was asked about the party’s concerns. Republicans say it “doesn’t go far enough,” Perkins prodded before asking for Johnson’s response.

A beat passed, and the speaker replied, “It took us many decades to get the country into the financial mess we’re in. We cannot flip a switch and fix it overnight, but,” he paused, “we have a responsibility to get us to begin to steer out of the debt crisis. This bill is truly historic in its scope and what it does for the first time in history.” Johnson continued, “This legislation is written so that we save $1.9 trillion with a ‘T’ in taxpayer funds. There’s never been anything like that. It’s twice as much as the last time Congress even attempted such a thing, which is more than 30 years ago. So truly historic in turning the aircraft carrier and beginning us on a new trajectory,” the speaker said, referring to his oft-invoked metaphor.

To those like Paul who complain that the debt ceiling hike only enables more spending, Johnson is emphatic. “We’re going to extend the debt limit — not because we’re going to spend more money, but because you have to do that to show the bond markets and the rest of the world that America is good on its debts. That must be done. Everybody knows that.” He invoked the White House. “President Trump is insistent about it. He says we’re not raising a ceiling to spend it. We’re extending the deadline so that we can get our fiscal house in order. This is a really important thing.”

And while the president has been enthusiastic about the House’s package, he created plenty of heartburn Sunday evening when he seemed to imply that the upper chamber should have its way with the legislation. “I want the Senate and the senators to make the changes they want,” Trump told reporters over the weekend. “It will go back to the House, and we’ll see if we can get them. In some cases, the changes may be something I’d agree with, to be honest.” Hinting at conversations he’s probably had with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), the president acknowledged there would be changes. “Some will be minor, some will be fairly significant.”

Reminded that the goal is to get the bill to his desk by July 4, Trump nodded. “I think it’s going to get there,” adding that Johnson and Thune “have done a fantastic job.”

While the two sides gather their energy for the reconciliation fight’s next round, the speaker has spent his time hammering away at the disinformation Democrats keep spewing about the bill’s supposed fallout. Repeating what he’s said a hundred times in a hundred different ways, Johnson reiterated, “We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. There’s a lot of [dishonesty] out there about this.” Pointing to one of the most outrageous examples of fraud, waste, and abuse, he quantified a problem that many suspected but didn’t have hard numbers on.

“[We’ve] got more than 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid,” the speaker warned. “Medicaid is not intended for non-U.S. citizens. It’s intended for the most vulnerable populations of Americans, which is pregnant women and young single mothers, the disabled, the elderly. They are protected in what we’re doing, because we’re preserving the resources for those who need it most.” Then he put the spotlight on the other problem, the legal, work-capable citizens who were added to the rolls under Joe Biden. “You’re talking about 4.8 million able-bodied workers, young men, for example, who are on Medicaid and not working. They are choosing not to work when they can. That is called fraud. They are cheating the system. When you root out those kinds of abuses,” he stressed, “you save the resources that are so desperately needed by the people who deserve it and need it most. That’s what we’re doing.”

And it’s not just the Medicaid soundbites they’ll have to confront but the headlines about the proposal’s “score,” as in how much the government’s financial experts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) believe it will add to the deficit. But, as the Louisiana leader cautioned, there’s almost always more to that than meets the eye. “The last time they scored a big bill like this was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in the first Trump administration,” he explained to Perkins. “They were $1 trillion off in their calculations.”

To put the process into perspective, he noted that “the CBO is run by Democrats,” adding that “84% of the employees there who are crunching the numbers are donors to big Democrats like [Massachusetts Senator] Elizabeth Warren and [Senator] Bernie Sanders. So we dismiss that,” the speaker said. “What they do not count for is the pro-growth policies in this bill that [are] going to grow the U.S. economy. And that is how, in combination with savings, we’re going to get ourselves out of this mess.”

Still, Johnson underscored, as he has so many times, “We value everybody’s opinion. … You know, my background is in constitutional law. I’m a student of what the Founders originally intended for how the process was supposed to work. The United States Congress is the greatest deliberative body in the history of the world. It works so well, but only if it’s done as designed.” He thought back on his predecessors and other leaders who drafted major legislation “in a back room, by quite literally a handful of people. I didn’t want to do that, because I think we’ve got to get back to what was intended.” Everyone should have a voice, he insisted. Does that take longer? Absolutely. Is it more painful? His chamber just proved it was. “But it’s always worth it in the end … and it makes a better product.”

What will happen to the 1,100 pages he poured over for months? The speaker doesn’t know. But there’s one tool he’d suggest for everyone facing these big obstacles: “prayer.” “It’s not been in vogue in Washington for quite some time,” Johnson reflected, “and I’m just bringing it back. It seems like some huge innovation, but that’s exactly how our nation began. And I think we do well to remember it.”

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TAKE ACTION: Urge The 53 Republican U.S. Senators Not To Botch The One Big, Beautiful Bill!

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Click here to send your email to urge 53 Republican US Senators to use great wisdom in the changes they make to the House version of the One Big, Beautiful Bill.

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The Republican US House of Representatives approved its version of the budget resolution called the One Big, Beautiful Bill.  The bill passed by a vote of 215-214 on May 22, 2025.

Millions of Americans, including many who are not registered Republicans, are watching to see if the United States Senate can fulfill GOP campaign promises made during the 2024 elections.  They are looking forward to with great anticipation the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act renewal, border and immigration reform, energy deregulation, increased military spending, some new tax exemptions, etc.

Now that the US House has approved its version of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, voter expectations to see these promises kept are very high.

Disappointing voters, especially non-GOP voters, will have grave consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections and beyond if the senate plays too hard and makes big changes to the One Big, Beautiful Bill.

GOP Senators know the slim margin in the House. They know the changes that would make it dead on arrival for a final vote on the bill.

Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to urge 53 Republican US Senators to use great wisdom in the changes they make so as not to botch this historic opportunity to approve the One Big, Beautiful Bill that has everything voters expect and Americans and America need to be safe and prosperous.

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Rick Scott Tells Charlie Kirk He Won’t Support Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ In Present Form

By The Daily Caller

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Tuesday that he would not vote for President Donald Trump’s House-passed “one big, beautiful bill” in its present form.

Trump gave Senate Republicans permission to make major changes to the bill on Sunday as some GOP senators are warning that the package is dead-on-arrival without significant reforms. On “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Scott said he would “absolutely” vote against it without additional spending cuts.

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“If they brought it to the floor like right now, there’s not a chance it’ll get the 51 votes it needs … Look we all know we have to balance the budget,” Scott said. “Look, we know that it’s getting harder to sell our treasuries, we know interest rates are going up. We want to get interest rates down, we can get inflation under control. That means balance the budget.”

Kirk said Scott’s opposition to the current bill was “a big statement.” The host asked the senator what it would take to get the bill to pass and about the reconciliation process.

“Charlie, we’ll change it. We’ll have our own bill and … it will go back to a conference or just go back to the House and they’ll pass our bill. But I believe we’re going to dramatically reduce mandatory spending to get this budget balance in a short period of time, which is what we have to do,” Scott told Kirk. “It’s what we promise. I just went through my election just like President Trump did. We all promise we’re going to balance the budget. We are going to set the process to quickly balance in this budget.”

GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky are among the fiscal hawks influencing the deliberation about spending deficits. Johnson has also noted Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Scott as senators who are seeking further spending cuts in the bill.

Johnson is advocating for the government to return to pre-pandemic spending levels — a nearly $6 trillion reduction — and calls the current bill “completely unacceptable.”

While House Republicans felt pressured to accept the bill due to the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, numerous Senators do not.

“In the House, President Trump can threaten a primary, and those guys want to keep their seats. I understand the pressure. Can’t pressure me that way,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday. “I’m not going to vote for it with minor tweaks. I think everybody’s kind of happy talking and ‘get together and pull together and gotta do this’ and that crap. That’s the way they’re going to try to make it go.”

Paul has said that he opposes the bill based on language that will increase the debt limit by $4 trillion over the next two years — something Trump has demanded.

“I’ve told them if they’ll take the debt ceiling off of it, I’ll consider voting for it,” Paul told reporters on Thursday. “We’ve never, ever voted to raise the debt ceiling this much. It’ll be a historic increase. I think it’s not good for conservatives to be on record supporting a $4 (trillion) or $5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling.”

“If they were to take the debt ceiling off of it and have the tax reductions and spending reductions, I’d probably vote for that,” Paul added. “The spending reductions are imperfect, and I think wimpy, but I’d still vote for the package if I didn’t have to vote to raise the debt ceiling.”

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Jason Cohen

DCNF Reporter/Clipper

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