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Thomas Massie on Johnson not putting an Epstein resolution on the floor: “I think this is the referendum on his leadership. who's he going to pick? Is he going to pick the pedophiles and the underage sex traffickers, or is he going to pick the American people and justice for the…

For those not on Capitol Hill, this is a House GOP debacle. They are so scared of votes re: Epstein that they will punt most of this week's legislative schedule and start their summer break early.

After declaring 3.5 years ago that he would "never endorse this jerk again," Trump has endorsed Sen. Mike Rounds for reelection in 2026.

Speaker Johnson tells reporters at the Capitol that there will *not* be a vote this week related to the Epstein Files in the U.S. House. No legislative action is envisioned until after Labor Day.

NEW -- CBO has a new cost estimate for OBBB. The law will add $3.4T to the budget deficit over the next 10 years, CBO says. CBO: "That increase in the deficit is estimated to result from a decrease in direct spending of $1.1 trillion and an decrease in revenues of $4.5…

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I wrote about what it was like growing up as a child in the Bosnian civil war, where food was extremely scarce. I didn't have much, but at least UNICEF was there to help keep me alive. Congress just defunded it, putting lives at risk around the world. huffpost.com/entry/trump-cu…

GOP senators complain the Trump admin isn't faithfully executing the CR, get results on after-school funding But Murray says WH is still withholding $5.5 billion in other education funding Congress passed and Trump signed into law earlier this year

In the midst of Trump battling his MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein case, the State Department gutted its office dedicated to combating human trafficking. State officials said the cuts targeted "outdated" and "parochial interests." motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

Coldplay couldn’t have written it better

“The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the…

"It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump." (gift link) wsj.com/politics/trump…

Personally I was unaware astronomers had such game

Schumer says Trump should fire Russell Vought after his comments today against bipartisan appropriations. “He wants to destroy the way the Congress works,” Schumer says, calling the Trump budget chief “a very great danger” to democracy

"The President would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. That's how he feels," @PressSec says

The US should no longer publicly comment on elections, including making an assessment of whether the election was “free and fair,” unless there is a “clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest to do so,” Rubio said in a cable to diplomats Thursday

Trump’s budget chief said he wants to ensure the president is "not cowing to a legislative branch’s understanding of its own authorities and powers." huffpost.com/entry/russ-vou…

Collins said she ultimately decided not to offer this amendment because “what I found was that [Democrats] intended to vote no at the end, even after and if it were accepted, and that did not make sense to me.” She called it “a political stunt”