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Sen. Markwayne Mullin claims people are "gaming the system."

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Mark Warner on why Republicans are supporting Trump's big bill: "A lot of it just is Trump. I wish I could say they're only talking trash on this bill but not other things. The amount of things I hear from Republicans around national security items where they are privately embarrassed ... "

submitted 8 hours ago • 233 comments

Coming back from time off, seeing this in full and astounded by the level of gaslighting here. Shame on Karoline Leavitt. @natashabertrand.bsky.social doesn’t need my support but is a great reporter. Karoline is lying a lot here. Discussing this on my show Monday.

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Q: You said you would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. You've now been in office for 5 months. Why have you not been able to end the Ukraine war? TRUMP: Because it's more difficult than people would have any idea.

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TAPPER: Are you guaranteeing that these changes you are voting for will not hurt recipients in Alabama of Medicaid or food stamps for those who are citizens and truly need it and deserve it? BRITT: Absolutely. What you are talking about is able-bodied, working-aged Americans without dependents

submitted 8 hours ago • 815 comments

The Senate extended work requirements to apply to parents of children ages 14+. Exemptions based on disability are complicated because of the administrative burdens of enrolling in SSI (—> low take-up). And we know many eligible people will lose coverage due to administrative burden of documentation

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

Only people who don’t need benefits deserve to get them

submitted 8 hours ago • 34 comments

Lindsey Graham: "Judge shopping needs to stop."

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KARL: What about the Iranian uranium? LINDSEY GRAHAM: The 900 pounds? It's still out there

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Jim Banks: "The Medicaid, uh, reforms would affect able-bodied Americans. Those who are sitting at home who can work, who don't work, who don't have a sick kid or a sick mom. They shouldn't receive Medicaid without working."

submitted 7 hours ago • 380 comments

Wow Look at the numbers for the Fox poll

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poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular

submitted 8 hours ago • 445 comments

Jake Tapper should be best understood now as someone who works in service of helping to launder GOP talking points. "those who truly need it & deserve it" is designed to be not just a softball to Katie Britt but a verbatim repeating of the GOPs lie of what their cuts will do & who they will effect.

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BARTIROMO: You tweeted that Democrats leaked intelligence TRUMP: They should be prosecuted BARTIROMO: Who specifically? TRUMP: We can find out. You go up and tell the reporter, 'national security, who gave it?' You have to do that. And I suspect we'll be doing things like that.

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BARTIROMO: Do you think the Iranian regime hid some of the enriched uranium before the strikes? TRUMP: No

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Trump on sanctions: "One of the things I was thinking about doing, you start waving them for countries like -- if they behave themselves -- like Iran, where they can sell oil and they can do the things you want to be able to do."

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Trump on if NATO member countries don't spend more on defense: "The best insurance is if you don't do it, you leave. You don't do business with them anymore." (Note the obvious edit after Trump makes this comment.)

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Markwayne Mullin on Elon Musk saying Trump's bill is "political suicide": "He just doesn't know. And so I have to disregard that." Welker responds by pointing out to Mullin that not long ago he called Musk "the best entrepreneur we've ever had in our lifetime."

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Trump says "anybody but Powell" and then Maria Bartiromo mentions Kevin Hassett as a possible Fed Chair replacement (Trump seems open to the idea)

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WELKER: 7.8m people are expected to lose Medicaid coverage. Are you suggesting that 35m people covered by Medcaid are all involved in waste, fraud, and abuse? MULLIN: There's 70m people that are signed up for Medicaid. You're gonna tell me that there's not room to cut fraud, waste, and abuse?

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BARTIROMO: July 9 is coming up. What are you gonna do about the end of the pause in tariffs? TRUMP: We're sending letters out ... saying, 'congratulations, we're gonna allow you to trade in the US. You're gonna pay a 25% tariff, or a 20%, or a 40 or 50%.' I would rather do that.

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"I'll tell you in about two weeks" -- Trump on a TikTok deal

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Trump: "We'll send a letter and we'll say 'we would consider it a great honor, and this is what you'll have to shop in -- we're like a department store -- to shop in the United States, and you'll pay a 25% tariff or we'll wish you a lot of luck.' And that's the end of the trade deal."

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BARTIROMO: What can you do to offset the job cuts that will no doubt come as a result of AI efficiency? TRUMP: One thing, very simple -- bring more companies in, more jobs. The truth is we don't have enough people to take care of these jobs. We don't have enough people.

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Trump: "We're doing coal. I don't want windmills destroying our place. I don't want these solar things where they go for miles and they cover up half a mountain and they're ugly as hell."

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Trump on Mamdani: "He's a pure communist. I think he admits it ... If he does get in, I'm gonna be president and he's gonna have to the right thing or they're not getting any money. He's gotta do the right thing."

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Trump: "Frankly, Canada should be the 51st state. It really should. Because Canada relies entirely on the United States. We don't rely on Canada." (Note the heavy edit after Trump says this, suggesting he said more than Fox didn't include in the interview)

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Markwayne Mullin to Kristen Welker on work requirements: "What is so hard about requiring an able-bodied individual with no dependents, no sickness, work work 20 hours a week? I know you worked more than 20 hours this weekend alone ... we don't pay people in this country to be lazy."

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WELKER: Do you think babies who are born to undocumented parents should be deported? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: They should go with their parents

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Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."

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WELKER: Border crossings are at a record low. Do you give the Trump administration some credit for that? CHRIS MURPHY: No, I don't give them credit. Border crossings are low because they're violating the law every day.

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Chris Murphy: "By taking away the power of courts to restrain the president when he is clearly acting in an unlawful manner, as he is when he says children born in the US are no longer citizens, you are assisting him in trying to undermine the rule of law and undermine our democracy."

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Mamdani: "By keeping that focus on an economic agenda, we showed New Yorkers that this can be more than just a museum of what once was. It can be a living, breathing testament to possibility."

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WELKER: Are you committed to keeping New York as a sanctuary city? MAMDANI: Absolutely

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Mamdani on "globalize the intifada": "That's not language that I used. The language that I used and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights."

submitted 5 hours ago • 266 comments

Mamdani: "I asked Dems, who did you vote for any why? I heard from them again and again -- 'I voted for Trump bc I could afford things that are now out of my reach.' Ultimately when I asked them what it would take to bring them back to the D Party, they said a relentless focus on an economic agenda"

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Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"

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Mark Warner on the Trump admin forcing out the president of the University of Virginia: "This is the most outrageous action this crowd has taken on education ... if they can do it here, they'll do it elsewhere."

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McCAUL: I think everybody in the House knows the peril that they're in if they vote no on this thing BRENNAN: Is it about reelection or the policies McCAUL: No, it's great for the country

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submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

That's quite an admission. If he were ever held responsible for anything he says it might even be a scandal. Lucky for him that he can spout such incriminating gibberish and the entire establishment bows down like he's a genius.

submitted 5 hours ago • 47 comments

Trump wants to be the American version of China's Xi. He wants to be a dictator. He's acting that way right now and daring us to stop him.

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Trump: "Enrichment doesn't mean, like, air conditioning, and it doesn't mean to jack up your car. Enrichment is a bad word."

submitted 7 hours ago • 362 comments

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names, but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??

submitted 5 hours ago • 381 comments

Quick note to everyone pretending that Zohran Mamdani somehow favors communism, here’s the Republican president literally saying on camera that he wishes America were more like Communist China.

submitted 5 hours ago • 112 comments

Trump: "In China, you know how long it takes? One day. It's called President Xi. 'Boom. It's okay.' Over here we're gonna have almost the same thing. We're getting fast approvals."

submitted 6 hours ago • 132 comments

Trump believes in American Non-Exceptionalism. His claim that America is as amoral as authoritarian regimes has long been false. But he longs to make it true.

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BARTIROMO: China hacked into our telecom system, they've been stealing intellectual property, fentanyl, covid, all of this stuff. How do you negotiate w/ an obvious bad actor? TRUMP: You don't think we do that to them? We do. We do a lot of things. That's the way the world works. It's a nasty world

submitted 6 hours ago • 174 comments

Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."

submitted 6 hours ago • 504 comments

Reminder: They’re afraid of Zohran because he’s better at this than they are. He is putting the people first, and it reminds them of their own failings.

submitted 18 hours ago • 293 comments