🔵 GOP Rep. Resigning

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Citizen Frank
June 10, 2025

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, June 10.

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) on Monday said he plans to resign from Congress after the House holds a final vote on the party’s “big, beautiful bill,” giving up his seat as well as his leadership post on the House Homeland Security Committee.

Green said he has already lined up a job outside of Congress.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up. As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package,” Green said in a statement.

 
 

Senate Finance Republicans are increasingly looking to dial back key items on President Donald Trump’s tax policy wish list. And it’s pitting them against the architect of the House-passed tax legislation, Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith — and potentially even the White House.

The rub is this: The House version of the megabill would restore tax incentives for research and development, business equipment and debt interest through 2029, which Trump has indicated he supports. But Senate Republicans are dead-set on making them permanent, a proposition that would likely add hundreds of billions in more red ink to the legislation.

To offset that cost, GOP senators are looking to water down other tax provisions they believe aren’t as “pro-growth.” Those policies include “no taxes on tips,” “no taxes on overtime” and tax relief for seniors — all proposals Trump touted on the campaign trail and collectively boast a price tag of roughly $230 billion, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

A former student opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding at least 12 others before taking his own life, authorities said.

There was no immediate information on the motive of the 21-year-old man, who had no previous police record. He used two weapons, which he was believed to have owned legally, police said.

“Today is a dark day in the history of our country,” Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker told reporters in Graz, a city of about 300,000 people in southeastern Austria.

The Trump administration is deploying another 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles, adding to the initial 2,000 already ordered to the city over the weekend, California Gov. Gavin Newson announced Monday.

“I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.,” he posted to X.

Gavin contends that the first 2,000 have been given no food or water and that only approximately 300 have been deployed in the city.

As anti-ICE riots began over the weekend in Los Angeles, involving people throwing objects at law enforcement officials, spray-painting and vandalizing vehicles, and looting businesses, protests have spread to Austin and Dallas, Texas, and San Francisco.

A protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with “dozens of people” started on “Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge” on Monday night, according to Fox4 News.

KXAN News reported that as of 10:08 p.m. (CDT), protesters in Austin had torn “down construction barriers, scooters and other equipment” and were “throwing it in the middle” of the street as they walked.

The FBI has identified the masked brute caught on camera hurling bricks at federal law enforcement authorities during the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced as she warned other instigators, “You can’t hide.”

“That guy has just been identified, and they are doing a search warrant on his house as we speak,” Bondi told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday.

“His name is Reyes. He is going to be on the most wanted list,” the attorney general added, suggesting the individual was still at large.

Activist Greta Thunberg was relentlessly mocked as she was deported from Israel on Tuesday — after the Gaza-bound “selfie yacht” she and her posse of activists were on was seized by the Israeli military.

A photo released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry shows a straight-faced Thunberg buckled into a plane seat on a flight back to Sweden, her home country.

The 22-year-old’s critics were quick to poke fun at the climate activist for traveling by ship all the way to Israel just to be sent home on a gas-guzzling jet, which she has spoken out against for years.

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