🔵 Trump BBB Win

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Citizen Frank
July 04, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, July 3.

The “big, beautiful bill” is heading to President Trump’s desk.

House Republicans passed the core of Trump’s domestic policy agenda Thursday afternoon — including sweeping tax cuts, a crackdown on immigration, a boost for fossil fuels and huge cuts to Medicaid — overcoming months of bitter infighting on Capitol Hill to deliver what could be the defining legislation of Trump’s second term.

The 218-214 vote came together after more than a year of intense planning by GOP lawmakers, weeks of scrambling to reconcile the conflicting visions among House and Senate Republicans, and days of last-minute lobbying to cajole holdouts in both chambers to get on board.

 
 

President Trump stunningly announced that there would be a UFC fight with up to 25,000 spectators at the White House within the next year to celebrate America’s upcoming 250th birthday.

“Does anybody watch UFC? The great Dana White? We’re going to have a UFC fight. We’re going to have a UFC fight — think of this — on the grounds of the White House,” Trump said in a speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

A bloody cage-match on the White House grounds is likely to draw criticism from the Republican leader’s political opponents — while offering the president an unconventional way of connecting to the public.

Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and African American on his Columbia University application, a report claims.

The 33-year-old checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his application to the Ivy League university — which was ultimately rejected — when he was a high school senior in 2009, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Mamdani, born in Uganda, told the outlet he doesn’t identify as either race but rather “an American who was born in Africa.”

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued an unsigned order stating that a handful of illegal immigrant criminals whom the Trump administration sought to deport to South Sudan—and who have been waiting in Djibouti to find out their court-ordered fate—can be deported to South Sudan.

“The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable,” the Court said, referencing the back and forth that has gone on with this case and the federal judge in Boston. The question before the court was how to handle a circumstance in which they had said previously that the government could deport the men, which was in opposition to a lower court ruling, only to have that lower court refuse to accept the decision and say that its own ruling was still in effect.

Justice Elena Kagan, who had agreed with the minority dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that the men should not be deported, upheld the Thursday decision, saying “a majority of this Court saw things differently, and I do not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this Court has stayed.”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright will attend the opening of the first rare earth mine in the United States in more than 70 years.

Taking place on July 11 at Ramaco’s iCAM Technology Center in Ranchester, Wyoming, the event celebrating the Brook Mine Carbon Ore Rare Earth project will host speakers from the national and state levels, according to a press release.

“This is more than a ribbon cutting — it’s a declaration of America’s resolve to reclaim its leadership in critical minerals and energy independence,” Ramaco Resources Chairman and CEO Randall W. Atkins said.

President Trump met with the Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman at the White House on Thursday and discussed the situation with Iran and other regional issues, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Saudi Arabia wants to de-escalate tension in the region after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.

The talks took place ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Monday meeting with Trump at the White House.

Michael Madsen, the rough-and-tumble actor best known for his work in the Quentin Tarantino films Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, died Thursday morning. He was 67.

Madsen was found unresponsive by deputies responding to a 911 call at his Malibu home and pronounced dead at 8:25 a.m., a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Liz Rodriguez, his rep at EMR Media Entertainment, told THR “we understand Michael had a cardiac arrest.”

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