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🚨BREAKING: Sec. of Transportation Sean Duffy EXPOSES Scandal! Previous admin handed work permits & CDLs to non-citizens, flooding the market and undercutting American truckers.
This was LABOR DUMPING—plain and simple. ATU believes Hundreds of thousands of our workers suffered from this ILLEGAL betrayal.
At American Truckers United, we’re praising God for, who are stepping up for such a time as this. Eternally grateful!
But the fight’s FAR from over. We won’t rest until EVERY American trucker is restored and non-domicile CDLs are BANNED.
Lawmakers overwhelmingly approve removal of 10-year ban on state AI regulations in firm bipartisan move
Many senators failed to get their amendments across the finish line during the chamber's vote-a-rama on Monday, leaving the future of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" uncertain.
Two key failures came from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, with the former proposing a plan that would have boosted funding for rural hospitals and the latter calling for further cuts to Medicaid.
Collins and Cornyn were far from the only lawmakers who had amendments fail, however. Here are some details on some of the unsuccessful efforts, plus one that succeeded with nearly unanimous support.
RURAL HOSPITAL FUNDING
Collins' amendment would have doubled funding for rural hospitals from $25 billion to $50 billion over the next 10 years, and it would have allowed a larger number of medical providers to access the funds.
"Rural providers, especially our rural hospitals and nursing homes, are under great financial strain right now, with many having recently closed and others being at risk of closing," Collins said prior to the vote. "This amendment would help keep them open and caring for those who live in rural communities."
Collins said the bill was something of an olive branch to Democrats, who had criticized the cuts to Medicaid involved in the megabill. Her amendment would also have raised tax rates for individuals who make more than $25 million per year and couples who make more than $50 million.
"They’ve complained repeatedly about the distribution in this bill, of Medicaid cuts hurting individuals, rural hospitals, and tax cuts being extended for people who are wealthy, and yet when I tried to fix both those problems, they took a very hypocritical approach," Collins said.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., argued Collins' amendment was merely putting a "Band-Aid on an amputation."
EXPANDED MEDICAID CUTS
Cornyn was joined by Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., in pushing an amendment cutting an additional $313 billion in Medicaid funding on Monday.
The trio said they were pushing to limit the growth of Medicaid, and they had been confident the adjustment would pass. All three were seen entering Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office on Monday as it became clear the amendment lacked support.
The base bill already cuts some $930 billion in funding for Medicaid, leading many of the trio's colleagues to balk at further cuts.
"It just seems like we’ve taken it as far as I’m comfortable taking it," said Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.V., regarding trims to Medicaid.
BOOSTING DEDUCTIBLES FOR TEACHERS
Kennedy had proposed an amendment that would have allowed teachers to deduct $600 in school supplies that they pay for out of pocket each year.
The proposal ultimately failed in a 46-54 vote.
CHILD TAX CREDIT ENHANCEMENT
Bennet proposed an amendment that would have increased both the amount and availability of the child tax credit included in the megabill, but it failed to garner enough support.
The Senate rejected Bennet's proposal in a 22-78 vote.
CLEARING THE WAY FOR STATE AI LAWS
One amendment that did succeed was a measure that killed a provision in the bill that would have placed a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulations.
The original version of the bill would have forced states to choose between enforcing AI regulations or accepting federal funding to expand broadband internet access. Sens. Edward Markey, D-Ma., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., joined Sen. Maria Cantwell in sponsoring the amendment.
"The Senate came together tonight to say that we can't just run over good state consumer protection laws," Cantwell said Monday. "States can fight robocalls, deepfakes and provide safe autonomous vehicle laws. This also allows us to work together nationally to provide a new federal framework on Artificial Intelligence that accelerates U.S. leadership in AI while still protecting consumers."
The Senate passed the amendment in an overwhelming 99-1 vote.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., was the sole vote opposing the measure.
Senator Tillis recently announced he will not be running for reelection, having no taste for the current partisan atmosphere.
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[FOX] New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his plan to tax "richer and Whiter neighborhoods," while also adding that he believes billionaires should not exist. and they won't, in NYC, after he gets elected
The democratic socialist claimed Sunday that his push to burden White taxpayers was not racist, despite his agenda explicitly targeting White-majority areas.
"That is just a description of what we see right now," Mamdani told NBC’s "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under taxed and overtaxed."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump is ramping up his war against liberal 'sanctuary city' Los Angeles with a new major lawsuit.
The Justice Department, led by Trump appointee Pam Bondi, sued the city on Monday following weeks of anti-ICE riots and destruction.
The lawsuit argues that LA's policies attempting to 'deliberately' thwart the work of immigration agents violate federal law.
'Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,' Bondi said in a statement to the Daily Mail.
'Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.'
It comes after DOJ also sued Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Rochester, New York, challenging the cities' so-called sanctuary policies.
Los Angeles has drawn the ire of the Trump administration as local authorities were unable to quell the riots that overran parts of the city earlier in June.
In response to the riots, Trump took control of the California National Guard and ordered them to descend upon the city.
He directed them to 'provide safety around buildings and to those that are engaged in peaceful protests, and also to our law enforcement officers, so they can continue their daily work,' as described by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem during a CBS interview earlier this month.
The president slammed rioters as 'bad people' and 'animals' and even flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act.
He brushed off California Gov. Gavin Newsom's claim that the deployment inflamed the situation.
And he would not rule out use of an authority to deploy military forces under his control to put down disturbances if he sees fit.
'If there's an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We'll see. But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible,' Trump said on June 10.
'If we didn't send in the National Guard quickly, right now, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.'
Trump later called in the U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to protect the Wilshire Federal Building, which houses several federal offices amid further riots that were planned in the city.
During his own visit to Los Angeles, Vice President JD Vance toured a multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center and a mobile command center came as demonstrations calmed down in the city and a curfew was lifted.
That followed over a week of sometimes-violent clashes between protesters and police and outbreaks of vandalism and looting that followed immigration raids across Southern California.
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Declare martial law, establish a curfew and throw in prison without trial until the gang members are all deported. Transfer the resistance leaders to a federal pen and then leave LA with no federal funding for the city.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump is ramping up his war against liberal 'sanctuary city' 
