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Axios reports: Fresh off announcing he’ll retire next year, Sen. Thom Tillis gave a lengthy floor speech Sunday night attacking cuts to Medicaid in the “big, beautiful bill.” Tillis voted Saturday against starting debate on the bill, and has declared he’ll vote “no” on the final version. “I’m telling the president, you have been misinformed,” Tillis said on Sunday night. …

ProPublica reports: In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show. In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump is expected to be at the formal opening Tuesday of a controversial immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that state leaders have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The Palm Beach Post reported Sunday that Federal Aviation Administration data indicated that Trump would be in South Florida for the opening. Two White House officials and a …

Politico reports: Senate Republicans are moving forward, slowly, towards final passage of their sprawling tax and domestic policy bill early next week. But the most grueling part is still ahead. The Senate, in a late-night 51-49 vote, cleared a major hurdle when it moved onto general debate on the package. Democrats are expected to use every minute of their allotted …

Politico reports: Sen. Markwayne Mullin is insisting President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic megabill doesn’t break his promise not to cut Medicaid, even as the Congressional Budget Office estimates 7.8 million people would lose access if it passes. Instead, Mullin (R-Okla.) told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday, the “Big Beautiful Bill” is eliminating fraud, waste and abuse that Republicans say is …

Politico reports: The cost of Senate Republicans’ tax cuts has grown to $4.45 trillion, congressional forecasters said Saturday night. That’s up more than $200 billion from a previous draft of the plan, and reflects numerous last-minute changes lawmakers have made as they negotiate the details of the domestic policy megabill now before the Senate. Lawmakers in the two chambers have …

ABC News reports: The Senate voted to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” kicking off a lengthy process that GOP leadership hopes will end in its final passage. For much of the night, it was believed that Vice President JD Vance would be required to cast a tie-breaking vote. But at the last minute, Sen. Ron Johnson switched his no …

Politico reports: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told fellow Democrats they will force the out-loud reading of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” if the Senate votes to start debate Saturday. The maneuver, which was described by a person granted anonymity to describe private plans, is meant to slow down Senate passage of the megabill and give Democrats more time to …

Miami’s NPR affiliate reports: A seemingly non-stop stream of dump trucks and semi rigs entering the grounds of what’s now been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” roared past hundreds of sign-waving and chanting protestors Saturday as they lined U.S. 41 east and west of the site in the Big Cypress National Preserve. Cars passing by honked in support as protesters waved signs …

NBC News reports: The Senate on Saturday is eyeing an afternoon procedural vote to advance President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after two key holdouts changed their vote, but the push appears to be on shaky ground as a handful of Republican senators have warned they will vote against the reconciliation package. Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy threatened to vote against …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) privately asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to release funding for a Mercedes-Benz plant to convert to the production of electric vehicles, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post. In a two-page letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Mace asked the administration to disburse roughly $285 million for the …

“I just can’t accept this is the new normal. So President Trump, his goal in the Senate was to make the big, beautiful bill even better. I’d like it much better. Right now, I’m not going to vote for a motion to proceed today. We just got the bill. I got my first copy about 1.23 in the morning this …

Via press reports: As part of the investigation into the cover-up of President Joe Biden’s mental decline and potentially unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today sent letters to Karine Jean-Pierre, Ian Sams, Andrew Bates, and Jeff Zients demanding they appear for transcribed interviews. “President …

Reuters reports: U.S. Senate Republicans late Friday released a revised tax and budget bill that would end the $7,500 tax credit on new electric vehicle sales and leases on September 30 as well as the $4,000 tax credit for used EVs. The prior version would have ended the credit for new sales 180 days after the bill was signed into …

Politico reports: Rep. Dusty Johnson will announce a bid for South Dakota governor Monday, according to two people granted anonymity to speak about private conversations. Johnson has served as South Dakota’s sole House representative since 2019. He’s been a key player in major deals on Capitol Hill in recent years as the head of the Main Street Caucus of Republicans. …

The Washington Post reports: Iran nearly succeeded in orchestrating an assassination of former secretary of state Mike Pompeo at a European hotel in 2022, and then-candidate Donald Trump and his campaign were told by intelligence officials last September that the longtime U.S. foe had recruited hit men who were active at the time on American soil, according to a forthcoming …

NOTUS reports: Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska will not seek re-election next year, according to four sources familiar with the situation, dealing a blow to House Republicans who had viewed the five-term incumbent as the party’s best hope for retaining his battleground congressional district. Bacon, a former brigadier general in the Air Force, has represented Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District …

CBS News reports: Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced the war powers resolution days before the U.S. bombed three locations central to Iran’s nuclear program, seeking to force the president to get congressional authorization before entering the conflict between Israel and Iran. In an interview last week with CBS News’ Major Garrett, Kaine acknowledged that his resolution could fail …

“I don’t know, have we been beyond the Van Allen radiation belt? Maybe? If so, I would like to know why it’s taken so long to get back through it again. We’ll see what Artemis and the Orion spacecraft have to do when they try to take a crewed spaceship back out there in just a year or two. Tucker …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told Senate Republicans to expect to see the legislative text of the budget reconciliation package on Friday evening and then to vote at noon Saturday to begin debate on President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Thune gave GOP senators the updated schedule after they met with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to discuss …