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🔵 Nuke Deal Rejected
Citizen Frank
June 04, 2025
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, June 4.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday a US proposal for a nuclear agreement went against the country’s national interest, and that Tehran would not seek Washington’s approval for its decisions.
“Independence means not waiting for the green light from America and the likes of America,” Khamenei said, adding that the proposal was “100 percent against” the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The supreme leader insisted Iran would not abandon its uranium enrichment program, saying that without enrichment its nuclear program was “useless,” and asking of the US: “Who are you to tell us whether we should have a nuclear program or not?”
Vladimir Putin is planning revenge for Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia’s bomber fleet, Donald Trump has warned.
The US president said he had a “good conversation” with his Russian counterpart, after an unexpected phone call, but that it was “not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace”.
Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social network: “President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.”
Joe Biden’s longtime White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, announced Wednesday she has left the Democratic Party and is writing a tell-all book about the “broken” administration she served.
Jean-Pierre, 50, worked as Biden’s top spokeswoman for two years and eight months and stunned fellow White House alums by announcing her book “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” due out on Oct. 21.
“Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly,” Hachette Book Group said in a promotional release, which hints that the former Biden spokesperson may focus her ire on figures aside from the 46th president in her account.
An individual allegedly linked to the primary suspect in a car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic has been arrested, Fox News has reported.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Daniel Park, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City overnight, and is charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist. Park is being prosecuted by the Central District of California.
Park allegedly supplied Guy Edward Bartkus with the materials needed to construct the explosives, with the last shipment arriving just days before the attack, according to United States Attorney Bill Essayli.
The U.S. Army has reached its fiscal year 2025 recruitment goal of 61,000 active-duty enlistments—four months ahead of schedule—marking what officials call a pivotal moment in military readiness and national morale.
Announcing the milestone in a June 3 statement, Army leadership framed the achievement as a “turning point” in overcoming recent recruitment struggles, attributing the surge to a “renewed sense of patriotism and purpose among America’s youth.”
“I’m incredibly proud of our U.S. Army recruiters and drill sergeants,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said in a statement.
Private sector job creation slowed to a near standstill in May, hitting its lowest level in more than two years as signs emerged of a weakening labor market, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday.
Payrolls increased just 37,000 for the month, below the downwardly revised 60,000 in April and the Dow Jones forecast for 110,000. It was the lowest monthly job total from the ADP count since March 2023.
The report comes two days before the more closely watched nonfarm payrolls count from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is expected to show a gain of 125,000 and the unemployment rate steady at 4.2%.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that recent U.S. tariff increases will reduce federal deficits by $2.8 trillion over the next decade, primarily through increased customs revenue and lower interest payments on federal debt—more than enough to offset the projected cost of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cut bill.
In a separate analysis, the CBO recently estimated that extending the 2017 tax cuts, as proposed in the administration’s new tax and spending bill, would increase the deficit by roughly $2.4 trillion over the same period. That legislation would reduce federal revenues by $3.67 trillion while cutting spending by $1.25 trillion, resulting in a net increase in the federal deficit.
The CBO’s estimate of gains from tariffs strengthens the administration’s case that tariffs can pay for tax relief. In fact, the combination of tax relief and tariffs produces a net reduction in deficits, according to the CBO.
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