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National 'victory tour' planned so Trump can bask in megabill passing: report

President Donald Trump is planning a victory tour for his “one, big, beautiful” spending bill, which hasn't passed the Senate, according to an exclusive report from Axios.

The outlet’s source said the countrywide tour will come “shortly after” Trump’s July 4 deadline for the bill.

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Don Jr. accuses Nobel Committee of racism after Obama gets prize but not Trump

Donald Trump Jr. suggested that the Nobel Committee was guilty of racism after his father was not awarded a Peace Prize, but former President Barack Obama was.

"Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Donald Trump," Trump complained Tuesday on X.

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'Who is going to primary this guy?' Glib comment gets Dem leader hammered

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries shocked war opponents Monday when he told reporters he had not looked at a bipartisan resolution that would require congressional approval for military action against Iran.

As U.S. President Donald Trump has beat the drums for war with Iran in recent weeks, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a resolution to invoke the War Powers Act of 1973, which would require the president to seek congressional approval before taking military action.

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'Not a pretty game': Republican gripes that MAGA infighting left him 'bruised'

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said last week the state’s Republican Party ”made a bad decision” by endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy for governor last month.

“The party exists to win elections, and it’s not a pretty game,” Yost said Friday during a City Club of Cleveland forum. “I’m used to getting bruised by the political process. This was just a little bit bigger bruise that I’m accustomed to.”

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'Excuse me, sir': RFK Jr. refuses to vow not to target staff with retaliation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday refused to rule out retaliation against hundreds of National Institutes of Health scientists over a joint letter signed and delivered in protest of HHS cuts and layoffs.

Testifying in front of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Health in Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), a ranking member of the subcommittee, briefed RFK Jr. on the letter signed by hundreds of scientists under HHS condemning the department’s policy changes under RFK Jr.’s leadership, which include the termination of 2,100 grants with $9.5 billion, $2.6 billion in contracts, and the mass firing of thousands of employees.

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'Ghetto, white trash slob!' MAGA has conniptions as lawmaker brings baby to work

Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) brought her six-month-old baby, Sam, with her to question Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the agency’s independence from politics Tuesday, and it drove MAGA world insane.

MAGA political commentator Gunther Eagleman posted on X, “I'll say this for the people in the back. If you are ELECTED, then do your JOB. Bringing your child to a hearing as a PROP shouldn't be allowed to happen. Congress provides daycare. USE IT.”

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'Smash your gavel all day!' Dem confronts MTG as hearing erupts into chaos

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for breaking the rules of parliamentary procedure while chairing the House DOGE subcommittee.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Greene spoke out of turn after a Democrat slammed President Donald Trump.

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Bombshell whistleblower letter reveals 'lawlessness' inside Trump's DOJ

Senior Justice Department official Emile Bove told lawyers under him that he was willing to ignore court orders to ensure President Donald Trump got what he wanted, a whistleblower letter to the Senate said.

Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer, has been nominated to a federal judgeship, requiring Senate confirmation. Among those in opposition is a former DOJ prosecutor on the case for Kilmar Ábrego García, an asylum seeker living in Maryland who was captured and sent to an El Salvador prison without due process.

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'You fired them!' Dem aghast as RFK Jr. brags about staff — that he let go

A visibly frustrated lawmaker tried to find out why Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has allegedly avoided legitimate public review of his policy decisions on vaccines.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, Kennedy's actions on vaccines since taking the helm of HHS, include launching a government study on autism "led by someone who has previously promoted debunked links between vaccines and autism; changing recommendations for COVID vaccines; and pulling back on vaccine research and development, such as canceling a contract with drug company Moderna to develop a new flu vaccine using mRNA technology, which was used to make COVID vaccines."

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'Not deadbeats': Hawley begs that Medicaid not be stripped from 'Trump people'

Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) repeated his call to remove Medicaid cuts from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.

"We've got 1.3 million people, Steve, who are on Medicaid, including hundreds of thousands of kids," Hawley said of Missouri during a Tuesday interview with MAGA influencer Steve Bannon. "Most of these people are not folks who are deadbeats, staying at home, not working. These are working people who are on Medicaid because they don't have a job that gives them insurance on the job."

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'I'm just a silly girl': AOC delivers epic putdown to Trump attack

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at President Donald Trump in an X post after he called her “one of the dumbest people in Congress” for demanding his impeachment.

“Mr. President, don’t take your anger out on me - I’m just a silly girl.” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war.”

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'None of that is true!' Expert laughs out loud as he hears Trump's grand claims

A nuclear policy expert laughed off the Trump administration's claim that the U.S. completely "obliterated" Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities that could be turned into nuclear weapons.

After the U.S. military dropped a payload of ground penetrating bombs on Iran Saturday, President Donald Trump claimed, "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated," during his address to the nation. In a follow-up post to social media, Trump claimed again, "Obliteration is an accurate term!"

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Trump's Nobel Peace Prize nod withdrawn

Donald Trump's desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize took a major step backward when the Ukrainian lawmaker who nominated the U.S. president abruptly withdrew his recommendation.

Newsweek reported Tuesday that Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign committee who nominated Trump last November, said he had "lost any sort of faith and belief" that Trump would make good on his vow to end the war between Ukraine and Russia.

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