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88% of Seniors Won’t Pay Taxes on Social Security If One Big, Beautiful Bill Passes, Analysis Finds
More than 51 million seniors would pay no taxes on Social Security income under the proposed “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” according to a new report Tuesday by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. The legislation includes the largest tax break in American history for seniors, according to the report, which means that “88% of… -
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Rubio Touts ‘New Era’ of Foreign Assistance With Official Closure of USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development has officially closed, marking “the beginning of a new era of global partnership, peace, investment, and prosperity,” according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Starting Tuesday, the Department of State will take over the work of USAID. In March, Rubio announced that 83% of USAID programs were being canceled… -
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Whip Emmer: Support Our Cattlemen With Big, Beautiful Tax Cuts
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is touting an endorsement from a major cattle rancher organization as he pushes for Republicans in Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would extend and expand on President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a trade association with over 178,000 members, endorsed… -
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Maryland Federal Judges All Get Hit With DOJ Lawsuit for Violating the Law
On June 24, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an unprecedented complaint against all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland, as well as the clerk of the Maryland district court, for engaging in what Attorney General Pam Bondi calls an “egregious example of unlawful judicial overreach into the Executive Branch’s ability to… -
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NFL’s Saquon Barkley Finds His Victory Formation in Jesus
You didn’t have to be a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles to appreciate (even reluctantly) running back Saquon Barkley’s season. The Super Bowl-winning star rocketed through defenses, racking up more than 2,000 yards and 15 touchdowns in a football season that can only be called unbelievable. Now, almost five months removed from the championship, the… -
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Battle Begins for Open House Seat Long Held by Democrats
Following last week’s “firehouse primaries” in the race to fill a critical open seat in the tightly divided U.S. House of Representatives, the Virginia Democratic and Republican parties have chosen their nominees for a Sept. 9 special election. Republican nominee Stewart Whitson, an Army combat veteran and former FBI special agent, will face Democratic nominee… -
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DOJ to LA: See You in Court Over Sanctuary City Policies
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ sanctuary city policies, citing the supremacy clause regarding the preemption of federal statutes over state and local law in the U.S. Constitution. According to Los Angeles City Council members, as many as 1 in 10 Los Angeles residents may be… -
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Fact Check: Is Trump Administration Providing Citizenship Data to Election Officials a ‘Hair on Fire’ Development?
The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its system to share citizenship verification data with state and local election officials, which has prompted “hair on fire” concerns from one legacy media outlet and a legal scholar. Additionally, one former Biden White House official has alleged the Trump administration is creating a database to include citizens… -
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As a New York Resident, Here Is My Biggest Worry About Mamdani’s Socialism
New York’s socialist mayoral candidate’s ideas threaten to bring back the post-George Floyd riots surge in crime. Of all the terrible policies 33-year-old New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has embraced over the last five years, none threaten New York City more than his ideas about the police and law and order. To a certain extent,… -
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Congress, Don’t Expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
As President Donald Trump aims to make America affordable again and cut costs for American families, special interests are concurrently working against the MAGA agenda by trying to add provisions into Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” One of these is the expansion of the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), a giveaway to corporate developers to… -
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Here’s Why the Supreme Court Striking Down Nationwide Injunctions Won’t End the Judicial Insurrection
The Supreme Court case Trump v. CASA cut right to the heart of the judicial insurrection, the trend of district court judges siding with leftist activists to block President Donald Trump’s policies through nationwide preliminary injunctions. The court’s decision rightly struck down the judicial insurrection’s No. 1 strategy, but that doesn’t mean rogue judges won’t… -
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Why Trump’s Trip to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Could Boost ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
President Donald Trump is visiting a detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday, which the White House contends backs up the need to pass the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” A reporter on Monday asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt why Trump would travel to the detention center about 50 miles west of Miami while… -
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What Sen. Tillis’ Retirement Could Mean for GOP
Sen. Thom Tillis announced Sunday that he would not be seeking reelection, just one day after President Donald Trump threatened to support a primary challenger against the North Carolina Republican owing to his vote against proceeding with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. There could be major implications for Republicans—with a possibility of losing the… -
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Heritage Action Endorses Senate’s Big Beautiful Bill
Heritage Action, which has 2.5 million grassroots activists nationwide, came out swinging for the U.S. Senate’s budget reconciliation bill in a press statement released Monday. The group, one of the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the United States, backed the budget bill that is set to pass the upper chamber early this week. It will… -
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Symbolic Ritual in Iran Sees Women Hold Infants Aloft as Sacrifice
Hundreds of Iranian mothers lifted their babies above their heads in a symbolic act of sacrifice during the annual Hosseini Infants Ceremony in Tehran on Friday. The ceremony, with similar celebrations held across Iran on June 27, takes place on the first Friday of the Islamic month of Muharram and commemorates the death of Shia… -
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Supreme Court Delays Delegation’s Reckoning for Another Day
The Supreme Court punctuated its 2024 term with a decision that allowed the Federal Communications Commission to continue charging Americans billions of dollars annually for its Universal Service program. Universal Service, a subsidy program meant to bring communications technologies to rural and low-income areas, survived a consumer group’s challenge that argued that the FCC’s seemingly… -
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High Court Won’t Hear Appeal of Teacher Fired Over ‘Political’ Social Media Posts
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear arguments in a case involving a teacher who claims she was fired over social media posts expressing her views on transgenderism, immigration, and other controversial issues. Justice Clarence Thomas called the case “the latest in a trend of lower court decisions that have misapplied our First… -
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Senate Fiscal Hawks Seek Partial Obamacare Repeal in One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Senate fiscal hawks are seeking a major concession in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a partial repeal of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The fiscal conservatives managed to introduce the amendment after withholding their vote on a motion to proceed with the massive 10-year budget framework. Now, almost a decade removed from the day… -
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Trump’s Iran Strikes Were Masterful. Now His Dealmaking Skills Are Critical.
President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. Confronting a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for more than 35 years, the commander in chief took decisive action on June 21 to keep his promise that he would never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Operation Midnight Hammer was a success—America’s fine men and… -
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The Web of Activist Groups Backing ICE Riots, Hamas, and Iran
Promoting revolution never goes out of business, and lately, business is booming. Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem that organize street mayhem are veering sharply from anti-deportation actions to pro-Iran ones. They may have to swap in flags of the Islamic Republic for the Mexican ones they’ve been waving in Los Angeles, or the Hamas ones they waved earlier, but so be…
