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🔵 GOP Blocks Epstein Files
Citizen Frank
July 15, 2025
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 15.
The latest attempt by House Democrats to force a vote on releasing files related to the disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein failed on Tuesday.
Democrats unsuccessfully urged the chamber to oppose a routine procedural vote — known as the motion on ordering the previous question — since failure would have triggered a vote on Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) amendment requiring Attorney General Pam Bondi to preserve, compile and publish the Epstein files.
The Epstein files have been a source of controversy in Washington — especially the Republican Party — in recent days, with the MAGA base demanding its disclosure while President Trump directs those in his party to drop the matter.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi had not told him that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“No, no. She’s given us just a very quick briefing and in terms of the credibility in the things they have seen,” Trump said as he left the White House. “These files were made up by Comey, Obama, they were made up by the Biden– we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, with all of the different things we’ve had to go through.”
The president added that whatever Bondi felt was credible, she should release.
The Trump administration is seeking to keep illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal custody by denying them bond hearings.
Acting ICE director Todd Lyons wrote in an agency memo distributed earlier this month that while migrants without lawful status have historically been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge as they fight deportation proceedings in court, the Trump administration has revoked that privilege, per documents obtained by the Washington Post and other outlets.
“The recent guidance closes a loophole to our nation’s security based on an inaccurate interpretation of the statute,” a spokesperson for the agency told the Washington Examiner. “It is aligned with the nation’s long-standing immigration law. All aliens seeking to enter our country in an unlawful manner or for illicit purposes shall be treated equally under the law, while still receiving due process.”
Consumer prices rose in June as President Donald Trump’s tariffs began to slowly work their way through the U.S. economy.
The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services costs, increased 0.3% on the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The numbers were right in line with the Dow Jones consensus, though the annual rate is the highest since February and still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, core inflation picked up 0.2% on the month, with the annual rate moving to 2.9%, with the annual rate in line with estimates. The monthly level was slightly below the outlook for a 0.3% gain.
Bloomberg reports, “AMD received similar assurances from the US Commerce Department and plans to restart shipments of its MI308 chips to China once licenses for sales are approved.”
This means both AMD and Nvidia will be able to resume shipments of certain AI chips to China, pending license approvals.
In premarket trading, shares of both AMD and Nvidia were trading 4.5% higher.
With talent in short supply and the nation’s workforce more mobile than ever, companies are seeking to locate in places where workers want to live. That makes quality of life an economic issue. And state economic development organizations are leaning into that as they pitch their states to business.
“Connecticut is one state with a whole lot of everything,” the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development declares on its website, which goes on to tout the state’s “good quality of life” more than half a dozen times.
“New Mexico offers a place your employees will love and want to stay,” its state economic development website says.
France’s first lady has taken her case against two women over claims she used to be man to the highest appeals court after a lower court let them off, her lawyer said Monday.
On Thursday, the Paris appeals court overturned earlier convictions against the two women for spreading claims — that went viral online — that Brigitte Macron, 72, used to be a man.
Brigitte Macron filed a libel complaint against the two women after they posted a YouTube video in December 2021, alleging she had once been a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux — who is actually Brigitte Macron’s brother.
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