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Political News Compilation - Weekend Updates - July 5 & 6, 2025

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Trump branded, browbeat and prevailed. But his big bill may come at a political cost

By SEUNG MIN KIM
Updated 1:48 PM CDT, July 5, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama had the Affordable Care Act. Joe Biden had the Inflation Reduction Act. President Donald Trump will have the tax cuts.

All were hailed in the moment and became ripe political targets in campaigns that followed. In Trump’s case, the tax cuts may almost become lost in the debates over other parts of the multitrillion-dollar bill that Democrats say will force poor Americans off their health care and overturn a decade or more of energy policy.

Through persuasion and browbeating, Trump forced nearly all congressional Republicans to line up behind his marquee legislation despite some of its unpalatable pieces.

He followed the playbook that had marked his life in business before politics. He focused on branding — labeling the legislation the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” — then relentlessly pushed to strong-arm it through Congress, solely on the votes of Republicans.

But Trump’s victory will soon be tested during the 2026 midterm elections where Democrats plan to run on a durable theme: that the Republican president favors the rich on tax cuts over poorer people who will lose their health care.

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Georgia man accused by SEC of perpetrating Ponzi scheme says he takes 'full responsibility' for his actions

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Edwin Brant Frost IV of Georgia and his First Liberty Building & Loan, LLC, alleging the business was operated as a Ponzi scheme.

The document asserts that Frost and his company "raised at least $140 million from approximately 300 investors through the sale of loan participation agreements and promissory notes that offered annual returns of 8% to 18%.

"As of 2021, approximately 80% of interest and principal payments to investors were sourced from new investor funds, and not from...
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: 'That Ends Now,' Vows Trump WH on Benefits for Illegals

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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happening…

-Trump to meet with energy and tech titans in Pennsylvania amid AI dominance push

-'Nothing to stand on': Ex-White House physician slams Biden doctor for silence during House GOP grilling

-Florida officials reveal criminal backgrounds of migrants held at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The White House is ramping up efforts to remove illegal immigrants from an array of taxpayer-funded...
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Dozens taken to hospital after suspected mass overdose in Baltimore

  • News source: BBC News - World
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At least 27 people have been admitted to hospital, some of whom are in a critical condition.
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Trump threatens 35% tariffs on Canadian goods

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Trump has threatened blanket levies of 15% or 20% on most trade partners, and says he will soon announce new tariffs on the EU.
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Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind thrown out by appeals court

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A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al Qaeda's 2001 attacks.

The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles. It signals there will be no quick end to the long struggle by the U.S. military and successive administrations to bring to justice the...
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FBI's Dan Bongino thinking of resigning after clash with AG Pam Bondi over Epstein files fallout: Source

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FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is considering resigning over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a source told Fox News Digital, noting that Bongino took a day off from work on Friday due to his frustrations.

Bongino has not been seen in the office since Wednesday, a source told Fox News Digital.

The latest revelation comes on the heels of a heated argument between Bongino and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that occurred on Wednesday at the White House, two sources confirmed.

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Who is Ashley Williams, the longtime Biden aide grilled by House GOP investigators Friday?

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Former White House aide Ashley Williams is the latest ex-Biden administration official to appear in the House Oversight Committee’s probe.

Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is investigating allegations that Biden's former top White House aides covered up signs of his mental and physical decline while in office, and whether any executive actions were commissioned via autopen without the president's full knowledge. Biden allies have pushed back on those claims.

Williams is the third member of Biden’s White House inner circle to show up...
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Court throws out plea deal for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other terrorists

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A divided federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday tossed out an agreement that would have allowed 9/11 terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in another failed effort to end a years-long legal saga surrounding the military prosecution of men held at Guantánamo Bay.

The 2-1 D.C. Circuit appeals court decision upheld then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to undo the plea deal approved by military lawyers and senior Pentagon staff.

The deal would have carried life without parole sentences for Mohammed and two...
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Newsom donor's cannabis farm under federal investigation for 'child labor violations'

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FIRST ON FOX: The President of Glass House Farms, the cannabis farm that federal immigration authorities raided in California on Thursday despite protests, has donated thousands to Democrats in California.

Co-founder, president, and board director Graham Farrar, who self-identifies on social media as residing in Santa Barbara, California, has made numerous political donations to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., according to Federal Election Commission...
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Jasmine Crockett rips Trump 'regime,' vows 'solidarity' with Biden witnesses during House probe

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Progressive firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, made a second surprise appearance at the House Oversight Committee’s closed-door discussions with former Biden administration aides this week, once again criticizing President Donald Trump on the way out.

Crockett surprised reporters when she arrived roughly 15 minutes after House investigators’ transcribed interview with former White House advisor Ashley Williams began, declining to speak on the way in.

The Texas Democrat emerged just over 30 minutes later, saying little about what went on...
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Death of Ukrainian conscript prompts row with Hungary

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Allegations that the 45-year-old was beaten with iron bars, weeks after being forcibly conscripted, have been denied by Ukraine's military.
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Russians tell the BBC how they think the Ukraine war will end

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Russian victory is a key message at the 'Patriotic Festival' a few miles outside Moscow.
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Watch: Moment child gets stuck inside a claw machine

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The child was rescued unharmed from the toy crane game in the US state of Ohio by first responders.
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Trump judge pick declines to rule out 3rd Trump term, denounce Jan. 6 rioters

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Washington — Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who previously served as President Trump's criminal defense attorney, declined to rule out the possibility of the president running for a third term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel considering his nomination for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote next week on whether to advance Bove's nomination to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. CBS News...
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VA cuts could threaten mental health services for countless veterans

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Houston — The Army is written all over Wendy Smith's Houston, Texas, home. Even her dog is named Sergeant.

Smith was a mechanic in the Gulf War. During her service from 1989 to 1991, she says she was sexually assaulted. The aftermath included a turn to drugs and alcohol that resulted in her being forced out of the Army. She then spent several months in prison for cocaine possession.

"I just lost everything," Smith told CBS News.

She turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs in Houston to get sober. Now, she works as a patient escort at...
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