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The Home of Representatives handed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending invoice by 218 to 214 votes yesterday, handing the president a major legislative victory.
The Democratic Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, made an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to halt the invoice’s passage by giving a ground speech lasting eight hours and 44 minutes, the longest ever. Amongst different issues, the plan will improve immigration enforcement, lower social safety, injury the inexperienced power trade and lengthen and deepen the large-scale tax cuts – which profit rich earners most – that Trump first enacted in 2017.
Democrats erupted in outrage over the invoice’s passage. The congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky: “I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.”
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What is going to it imply for deportation coverage? 1000’s of recent immigration enforcement officers, tens of 1000’s of additional detention beds, charges on asylum purposes and additional building on the border wall. Right here’s how Trump’s invoice will supercharge mass deportations by funneling $170bn to Ice.
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What about social safety? In line with the Middle on Funds and Coverage Priorities, the welfare cuts will lead to about 10.6 million folks dropping their Medicaid healthcare and eight million folks dropping their Snap meals stamp advantages.
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And the deficit? It comes with an enormous price ticket, rising the deficit by $3.3tn by 2034, in line with the non-partisan congressional funds Workplace. Most of that’s the extension of the 2017 tax cuts.
Israel steps up lethal bombardment of Gaza earlier than ceasefire talks
Israel has escalated its offensive in Gaza earlier than imminent talks a few ceasefire, with warships and artillery launching one of many deadliest and most intense bombardments within the devastated Palestinian territory for months.
Medics and officers in Gaza reported that about 90 folks had been killed in a single day and on Thursday by Israeli bombing, together with many ladies and youngsters. On Tuesday evening and Wednesday the toll was greater, they stated. Casualties included Marwan al-Sultan, a heart specialist and director of the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, who died in an airstrike that additionally killed his spouse and 5 youngsters.
In all, about 300 folks could have been killed this week and 1000’s extra injured, the officers say.
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What’s the newest on ceasefire talks? Hamas leaders are near accepting a proposed deal for a ceasefire in Gaza however need stronger ensures that any pause in hostilities would result in a everlasting finish to the 21-month battle, sources near the group have stated. Hamas officers met on Thursday in Istanbul to debate the ceasefire proposals.
New ebook particulars how Obama criticized Biden’s re-election bid: ‘Your campaign is a mess’
Barack Obama sounded the alarm about Joe Biden’s ailing re-election try virtually a yr earlier than polling day, warning his former vice-president’s workers “your campaign is a mess”, a brand new ebook reveals.
The previous president’s intervention got here amid tensions between the Obama and Biden camps as they braced for a troublesome struggle towards Donald Trump.
Obama’s prescient anxiousness is captured within the forthcoming ebook 2024: How Trump Retook the White Home and the Democrats Misplaced America, by the journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf.
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What does the ebook say? It says that at a lunch assembly with Biden in December 2023, Obama argued that dividing the marketing campaign management between Wilmington and Washington was not appropriate for the quick decision-making required in a contemporary presidential election. Obama allegedly bluntly informed White Home workers: “Your campaign is a mess.”
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Tributes have poured in for the actor Michael Madsen, who died at residence in Malibu after a cardiac arrest. The star of Reservoir Canines, Kill Invoice and Donnie Brasco was 67.
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A wildfire fanned by gale-force winds has compelled the evacuation of greater than 1,500 folks on the Greek island of Crete, as swathes of continental Europe confronted a unbroken heatwave.
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Moscow confirmed a deputy commander of the Russian navy has been killed close to the frontline with Ukraine. Maj Gen Mikhail Gudkov had beforehand led one of many army’s most infamous brigades.
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It got here as Russia launched a devastating assault with a file variety of drones and ballistic missiles on Kyiv, hours after Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke by cellphone.
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The Liverpool soccer participant Diogo Jota has been killed in a automotive accident in north-western Spain. He was 28, not too long ago married and had three younger youngsters.
Stat of the day: US provides 147,000 jobs in June, surpassing expectations amid Trump commerce battle
The US economic system added 147,000 jobs in June, surpassing expectations as economists largely anticipated a fall in openings. There have been job positive aspects in state authorities and healthcare of 47,000 and 39,000 respectively. However in the identical month employment in federal authorities and the personal sector fell, by 7,000 and 33,000 respectively.
Don’t miss this: Time blindness can clarify continual lateness – a number of the time
The phrase “time blindness”, which generally is a symptom of ADHD or different circumstances equivalent to anxiousness or autism spectrum dysfunction, appears in all places proper now. However, asks Alaina Demopoulos, is it at all times a get-out-jail-free card? “Everyone has their slow days, but some TikTokers argue that people who are habitually 30 or 45 minutes late are claiming time blindness when in reality they’re being inconsiderate,” she writes.
Local weather examine: Excessive heatwaves could trigger world decline in dairy manufacturing
Dairy manufacturing might be threatened by the rising frequency and depth of heatwaves, suggests a research from researchers on the Universities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Chicago. Drawing on information from greater than 130,000 cows over 12 years, the report suggests excessive warmth reduces dairy cows’ capability to provide milk by 10%.
Final Factor: Banned hotdog champion Joey Chestnut returns for 4 July contest
Final yr Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, 41, was excluded from coming into Nathan’s annual hotdog-eating competitors in New York Metropolis after he signed a cope with a rival plant-based meat firm. However this yr the world champion – who gained the accolade for scoffing 83 canine and buns in a single 10-minute interval – returns, in pursuit of his seventeenth mustard belt.
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