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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, June 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM EDT One Washington Post columnist predicted in 2024 that should he win election to a second term, Trump would launch an unprecedented attack on his political opponents and democracy itself. Now, he's chastising Americans for not doing more when they had the chance. In a Friday essay, the Post's Colbert I. King wrote that "Trump's own record, his musings on the campaign trail and the words of his inner circle" should have been all Americans needed in order to forecast everything the 47th president of the United States would do during his first months back in the White House. King recalled his July 3, 2024 column, in which he warned that a term-limited Trump would run roughshod on the Constitution with little to no interference from the other two branches of government. June 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT California - the largest U.S. state by population and the world's fourth-largest economy by itself -- is the largest payer of federal taxes of all the states. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is now entertaining the idea of depriving President Donald Trump's administration of that revenue. Politico reported Friday that Newsom tweeted the suggestion in response to Trump floating the idea of terminating all federal. grants to California's state universities. The two-term Democrat pointed out that his state pays roughly $83 billion more in federal taxes than it gets back, according to a Rockefeller Institute analysis. June 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM EDT President Donald Trump's planned military parade is just a week away, and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is pointing out that there's still not much information about whether one particular group of veterans will be featured. On the Friday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace interviewed Iraq War veteran Paul Rieckhoff about the parade, who viewed the entire concept as "an attack on our values" and "un-American." He pointed out that military parades are typically seen in totalitarian countries like North Korea, and opined that Trump was inappropriately making U.S. troops take part in a "political stunt." June 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM EDT Scrutiny of the massive 1,037-page "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is now intensifying, with more than a dozen House Republicans who voted for its passage now urging their counterparts in the Senate to strip specific language from the legislation. NBC News' Sahil Kapur reported Friday that 13 Republicans who voted for the bill in May have sent a letter to Senate Republican leadership asking them to remove a provision in the legislation pertaining to clean energy projects in their districts. The letter, which was chiefly written by Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), said signatories were "deeply concerned" about provisions that would "abruptly terminate several credits" that had only recently been enacted. Other Republicans that signed the letter include Reps. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.), Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), Thomas Kean (R-N.J.), Young Kim (R-Calif.), Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), Michael Lawler (R-N.Y.) and David Valadao (R-Calif.) June 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM EDT President Donald Trump declared April 2, "Liberation Day" and launched a series of erratic, wildly fluctuating, country-specific tariffs, citing a "national emergency" over the U.S. trade deficit""a trend that has persisted since 1975. He has also vowed to make 90 deals in 90 days, something experts say is an impossibility, given that trade negotiations often take months if not years to complete. The deadline is fast approaching: July 9, he has said. June 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT On Friday -- which is the 81st anniversary of the United States' pivotal D-Day storming of Normandy, France during World War II - U.S. military veterans demonstrated on the National Mall against President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA). MSNBC reporter Melanie Zanona told host Katy Tur that Trump's attempts to "downsize the federal government" through mass layoffs of VA staff has prompted veterans to speak out. 61 year-old veteran Kenny Blizzard told Zanona that the targeting of the VA "kind of angers me." June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM EDT The spat between President Donald Trump and Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk - his top 2024 campaign donor -- has quickly escalated into a very public feud. And Trump is apparently waging war against Musk through the media. On Friday, Mediaite editor in chief Aidan McLaughlin tweeted that the 47th president of the United States "has been calling news anchors all day to dunk on Elon Musk," and isn't just sticking to conservative outlets. Along with Fox News' Bret Baier, Trump also called CNN host Dana Bash, ABC News White House reporter Jonathan Karl and CBS News national correspondent Robert Costa to attack the South African centibillionaire. June 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM EDT On Friday, June 6, the news was dominated by President Donald Trump's bitter feud with Elon Musk, who formerly headed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and helped orchestrate the Trump Administration's mass layoffs of federal government workers. But a week earlier""before their relationship went sour -- Trump held a White House event thanking Musk for his work with DOGE. June 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM EDT On Friday morning, June 6, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its jobs report for May 2025 -- and the news was mostly good. U.S. unemployment remained at 4.2 percent, and 139,000 new non-farm new payroll jobs were added. But according to economists, there is a caveat: It remain to be seen what BLS figures will look like when the effects of President Donald Trump's steep new tariffs really kick in. June 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM EDT The New Republic reports White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ragged U.S. judges for interfering with President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration policies Thursday night. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested the wife and five children of a man charged in a firebombing attack against peaceful protesters in Boulder, Colorado, despite having no evidence they were involved in the attack. June 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM EDT On a day dominated by an all-out clash between the billionaire President and the world's richest federal contractor""marked by personal insults, threats of contract cancellations, and even a call for impeachment""Vice President JD Vance was conspicuously absent. Until the very end. Musk answered "Yes" when a right-wing influencer wrote, "Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him." June 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM EDT New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress""a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years. According to new KFF Health Tracking Poll released Friday, anxiety is high among voters, across the political spectrum, about the negative impacts resulting from cuts to Medicaid or reductions in support for marketplace insurance plans supported by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). |
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