Republicans

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s Governor is using President Donald Trump’s favorite cable news channel to invite the President to the still-under-construction “Alligator Alcatraz.” Gov. Ron DeSantis said twice on “Fox & Friends” that Air Force One could land at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on the edge of the Everglades National Park, which is being used as a detention center …

The Associated Press reports: Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades. The lawsuit seeks to halt the project until it undergoes a stringent environmental review as required by federal law. There is also supposed to be a chance for public comment, according …

The Miami New Times reports: If there’s one thing the Florida GOP never misses, it’s a chance to turn outrage into merch (just ask fans of their “Gulf of America” and “Florida Space Coast” gear). Now, the party is capitalizing on its latest controversy: a plan to build a sprawling immigration detention facility in the middle of the Florida Everglades. …

USA Today reports:  The Supreme Court on June 27 upheld a Texas law requiring pornographic websites verify users are at least 18, in a case that pitted concerns about protecting minors against worries about violating the First Amendment rights of adults. The court split 6-3 along ideologically grounds with the three liberal justices dissenting. Eighteen other, largely conservative states have enacted similar laws in …

Axios reports: Nate Morris — a pro-Trump entrepreneur who founded a waste-disposal company worth $2 billion — joined the frenzied race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) with a cutting but lighthearted ad showing Morris riding on the back of a bouncing garbage truck. “Let’s dump career politicians and take out the trash in Washington,” Morris says as his …

The Phoenix New Times reports: It’s a time-tested strategy, straight out of 1995: When someone calls you out for lying, falsely accuse that person of being gay. That’s the tack Kari Lake took while testifying in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I’ve seen you in action, including your behavior in the last two elections,” Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was challenged on Thursday to explain why she posted an image of the Statue of Liberty in a burqa following New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. On The Hill’s “RISING” show, co-host Niall Stanage brought up the image of the Statue of Liberty …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham commendably kept a straight face and the show moving after Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) committed an on-air gaffe while misquoting a Democrat’s private praise for President Donald Trump’s Iran strikes as a moment that would go down in the “anals of American history.” Moreno appeared on The Ingraham Angle Thursday to defend the …

Axios reports: A pro-Trump super PAC is out with its first TV ad against Rep. Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican targeted for defeat by the president, Axios has learned. President Trump’s powerful political operation is showing that it’s willing to unload part of its massive $500 million war chest to unseat Massie, who the White House views as its chief …

The New York Times reports: Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who helped spearhead a brazen legal effort to use phony slates of pro-Trump electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election, was disbarred in New York on Thursday, cementing an indefinite ban issued last year. In a seven-page opinion, the court cited a criminal racketeering case centered on the fake electors in …

NBC News reports: A top Republican senator is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, slashing the workforce of an organization that has expanded since it was created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.  Under a bill by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the Republican chair of the Intelligence Committee, the ODNI’s staff …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: The budget now heads to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk for his signature, which he must sign by June 30. He can line-item veto provisions in the budget. A handful of anti-LGBTQ+ provisions are sprinkled throughout the budget, including a provision that would only recognize two sexes — male and female. The budget would require …

The Hill reports: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is preparing to officially launch her campaign for New York governor, according to two sources familiar with her thinking. The sources told The Hill that it’s not a matter of if, but when Stefanik launches her campaign, which she will do at a time and place of her choosing. Polling shows her leading …

Raw Story reports: “Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York,” railed Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) in a Thursday post on X. “He needs to be deported. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings.” Specifically, Ogles singled out lyrics to a song performed …

Fortune reports: Hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman plans to bankroll a New York City mayoral campaign, arguing that his affluent associates are poised to flood the election with money in an effort to defeat Democratic Socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. Ackman said he was “gravely concerned” because he believed the left-wing candidate’s policies would be disastrous, triggering an exodus of the wealthy …

NOTUS reports: Rep. Dan Crenshaw became the first House Republican this year to call on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough after she announced certain provisions of the GOP reconciliation bill would need to be removed or changed to meet a simple majority threshold. The Senate Budget Committee announced on Thursday MacDonough rejected several health …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Thursday said he will not overrule the parliamentarian after she rejected key Medicaid provisions in the GOP’s tax and spending megabill, dealing a blow to Republicans’ plan to pay for tax cuts in the package. “No. That would not be a good outcome for getting a bill done,” Thune told …

Newsweek reports: The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him. On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, declared victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York, in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York mayoral election. The White …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Dozens of members of Congress have warned that the most common method of abortion in America may not just kill unborn babies and harm their mothers, it may also pollute America’s drinking water with forever chemicals that could impact declining fertility levels. Some 25 congressional Republicans signed a letter calling on the Trump …

The Huffington Post reports: The Senate parliamentarian said that major Medicaid cuts in the GOP’s massive tax and spending package violate the chamber’s rules — a big setback for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Republicans already were having big disagreements over the Medicaid provisions of their so-called Big Beautiful Bill, and the parliamentarian’s ruling threatens to blow up the legislation …