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Nearly all of them voted to scale up Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Some are quietly working to protect select immigrants from it. House Republicans are grappling with the administration’s hardline enforcement policies playing out in their districts: notus.org/immigration/re…

Trump knocks House Freedom Caucus, this time on CBDCs: "I was impressed that they knew what the hell it was, to be honest with you. 'Please sir, the central bank digital currency, you have to be sure.' ... It's amazing the knowledge that people have gained all of a sudden"

"I am so tired of making phone calls at 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, getting calls from our great speaker. 'Sir, we have 12 hard nos,'" Trump recounts at the GENIUS signing ceremony. "They just want a little love. Unfortunately, it's always the same. Always the same 12 people"

📺: @riley_rogerson joins @Lokay to discuss her new reporting on the waning influence of the Freedom Caucus. youtube.com/watch?v=x_5hpL…

Here's the @notusreports piece on the Freedom Caucus from @riley_rogerson that we discussed on #TheFinal5: ‘You’re Irrelevant’: House Republicans Roll Their Eyes at the Freedom Caucus. notus.org/congress/house…

We're at that part of a congressional session where a lot of House members hate their colleagues, even (particularly, in some cases) members of their own party. They need that August recess bad, and this story shows it. notus.org/congress/house…

A really interesting story about the frustration Republicans are feeling toward the Freedom Caucus. As Rep. Derrick Van Orden said, the group is "not becoming frustrating; it’s been frustrating for the last two-plus years." notus.org/congress/house…

Plenty of Republicans are fed up with Freedom Caucus antics. But the HFC is bullish there’s a method to their madness. “The only way to get things in this town is to demand the moon and then take somewhere in between,” Chip Roy told me. notus.org/congress/house…

Today’s Murkowski Moment™. Asked how she felt about recissions, she said, “Concerned. Apparently, that's what you journalists say, ‘Murkowski is always concerned.’” Reporters: That’s Collins Murkowski: “So what’s my version?” Rs: Frustrated M: “Oh, true. Super frustrated.”

HFC and other House conservatives are now huddling with Speaker Johnson’s side office. This could be a long day.

Reps. Perry, Roy, Harris, Clyde and Self are now huddling with Emmer. Appears to be an animated conversation. A lot of smiling and laughing for some reason with a key vote still in question.

NEW: Dems and Republicans will play *together* in tonight’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game — which they say keeps the little bipartisanship left in Congress alive “We all have to do hard things,” one lawmaker said, “we can’t keep hating each other” notus.org/congress/congr…

BOB HARVIE, the Democratic opponent to Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, raised just $340,000 and has $193,000 on hand. Fitzpatrick raised $1.3M and has $6.5M on hand.

Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris tells me it’s “a bad idea for the Senate” to amend the rescissions package. But he stops short of saying he’d consider voting “no” if they did: “Well, I have no idea. … The president has to weigh in on that.”

Texas Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey just introduced a resolution that calls for the immediate release of all unclassified files on Jeffrey Epstein -- not privileged. He's the first Dem to do so as there's a growing call from MAGA Republicans for the administration to do something…