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AG Bondi came under bipartisan pressure from lawmakers who argued that proposed funding cuts to the DOJ — including the FBI — are a threat to national security as the conflict between the U.S. and Iran intensifies.

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Several House Dems are posting replicas of a commemorative plaque for police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 — needling Johnson for the prolonged delay in installing the official plaque commissioned by Congress years ago.

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Trump signaled deescalation in his response to Iran's strike on a US air base in Qatar. In a Truth Social post, he thanked Iran for giving the U.S. early notice of the strike, which he said “made it possible for no lives to be lost” on either the US or Qatar side.

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics in the chamber, said in a podcast she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Dems in certain situations.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to rapidly deport undocumented immigrants to countries where they have no ties.

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NEW: Trump has convened a Situation Room meeting after Iran attacked a U.S. base in Qatar — a dangerous new phase in the Israel-Iran conflict that could pull in the broader region.

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COLUMN: Cuomo wants redemption, Mamdani wants a revolution and moderate voters want someone else. The NYC mayoral primary lays bare the problems facing the Democratic party, writes our Jonathan Martin.

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Bannon warns regime change could lead to US military in Iran.

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The latest on Iran: The White House tries to find messaging balance on Trump’s regime change comment.

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Cuomo’s management of the MTA was fraught — and offers a look into how he would lead NYC.

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Donald Trump’s strike abroad is forcing a reckoning at home, as Republicans confront what “America First” really means. This is a “massive test" of Trump’s ability to keep the MAGA coalition together, White House Reporter Megan Messerly says on #playbookpod: pod.link/1169056746/e...

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The White House is on alert as Iran weighs how to respond to recent US and Israeli actions. Officials expect retaliation, but as Megan Messerly explains on #playbookpod, it’s uncertain just how big the response may be: pod.link/1169056746/e...

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Column: With Iran strikes, Trump is "unchained." "Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites this weekend is the latest sign that he’s now in a phase where he’s willing to take enormous risks with little concern about the blowback," writes @nahaltoosi.bsky.social.

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Hegseth insisted that U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities weren't meant to bring about regime change in Tehran, but laid out no plans for avoiding a deeper escalation should the country retaliate.

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Trump was triumphant during his address after U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, but the mood within his administration was less sanguine as officials braced for a potential counterattack. “We don’t know how much this is going to get us into something protracted,” one official told us.

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Iran said there were “no signs of contamination” at the three nuclear sites that US airstrikes targeted. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Trump has threatened more strikes against Iran if the country doesn’t negotiate a deal.

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Andrew Cuomo resigned less than four years ago. Now he’s back, along with many of the same aggressive tactics that almost destroyed him. How Cuomo’s reputation for bullying powered his comeback👇

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Trump publicly undermined Gabbard for the second time this week, disregarding his intelligence director's assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Trump wants other NATO members to spend 5% of their GDP on defense — but he doesn't think that standard needs to apply to the US. “I don’t think we should, but I think they should,” he said.

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Republicans are tired of dealing with TikTok as Trump tries to keep the app alive. “I just want finality,” Grassley told us. “I want some certainty and just to know that the Congress isn’t being played when we make a decision [that the app] be sold.”

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The feud between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz — both of whom have left the door open to a possible 2028 run — could offer a glimpse at what the first GOP presidential primary of a post-Trump era might look like.

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EXCLUSIVE: A judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one.

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Rep. @rokhanna.bsky.social tells our Dasha Burns that Dems could be “the party of peace” for Israel and Gaza. He lays out what that means on this week's episode of #TheConversation 👇 Subscribe to hear the full interview — out Sunday: pod.link/1111319839

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BREAKING: A judge ordered pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil to be immediately released from jail.

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The Supreme Court has revived lawsuits against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority over terrorist attacks that killed and injured Americans.

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The Trump admin just fired most Voice of America employees.

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🚨 BREAKING: Israel’s actions in Gaza may have violated the terms of the country’s agreement with the EU, the bloc’s diplomatic corps found.

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Amtrak is losing friends on both sides of the aisle as the Trump admin and New York take a more adversarial approach to the rail service.

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Sen. Josh Hawley is warning Republicans to drop a key Medicaid provision from the megabill. He said the White House is about to become "more forceful.”

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Would US involvement in Iran permanently fracture the Republican party? On #playbookpod, Adam Wren tells us what he’s hearing and whether the so-called “MAGA civil war” is real. Listen here: pod.link/1169056746/e...

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Will the Iran-Israel conflict and potential US involvement become another litmus test for candidates in the 2028 election? On #playbookpod, Adam Wren and Zack Stanton dig deeper: ow.ly/GuJB50WcV4b

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Trump is hearing talk of a potential “MAGA civil war” from people like Steve Bannon over the question of US involvement in Iran. Is that enough to convince the president to stay out of the conflict? We discuss on #playbookpod: ow.ly/8PwW50WcUEU

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Top Senate Democrats are urging Republicans to back away from changes to social safety net programs as the GOP prepares to bring Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to the floor next week.

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For Southern California’s Iranian diaspora, the current conflict represents a critical moment for a politically and culturally diverse community that hasn’t always gravitated to American political debates, or done so as a coherent bloc.

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Russ Vought’s relationship with Republican appropriators was already strained. Then he started talking about pursuing the ultimate end-run around their funding power heading into the fall.

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has found himself cut out of negotiations over his own committee’s portion of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

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Tuesday’s Democratic primary for New York City mayor is looming and in a still-evolving state of play. Our team of New York reporters share their takes on the key aspects of the race👇

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Interviews with a dozen members of the Democratic National Committee revealed deep frustration with its chair, Ken Martin, and concern about his ability to unify and lead the party.

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Top Senate Dems are demanding Trump outline "a clear, detailed plan" for dealing with Iran, saying the president has left Congress in the dark as he weighs direct US involvement in Israel’s campaign against Tehran.

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A new CBO report suggesting debt costs would swamp economic gains is being met with a big Republican shrug.

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Seven experts weigh in on what could happen if the US goes to war with Iran.

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The Trump admin is ending the LGBTQ+-specific national suicide and crisis hotline known as the “Press 3" option. The Trevor Project, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group, warned that the decision could have grave consequences.

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As Trump weighs joining Israel’s war with Iran, the US is ramping up efforts to protect Americans abroad.

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Senate leadership is negotiating with key megabill holdouts — “the Medicaid moderates”— over how to address their concerns that scaling back the provider tax would negatively impact rural hospitals.

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Prominent conservatives have emerged as forceful voices against intervening in Iran, lashing out at a host of political players— but not Trump.

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France is planning to put forward a proposal with its European partners to resolve the conflict between Israel and Iran amid fears of a regional escalation.

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This week on Politico Tech: Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins @stevenoverly.bsky.social to discuss AI and Hollywood — including the consequences for creatives and what he wants to see from the tech and policy worlds. Subscribe to hear the full podcast ep — out Thursday👇 politico.com/podcasts/tech

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There was no breakthrough on trade at the G7 this week. Trump's fine with that — but foreign leaders and domestic businesses are on edge.

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The Fed will hold interest rates steady, ignoring repeated calls from Trump to dramatically lower borrowing costs.

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EXCLUSIVE: US diplomats have officially been directed to screen the social media and online presence of all student visa applicants.

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Trump still wants the megabill on his desk by July 4. His chief of staff reiterated the deadline to GOP senators at a closed-door lunch.

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The long-term financial health of Social Security and Medicare worsened last year. This accelerates the funding cliffs for the safety-net programs in the coming years.

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GOP hawks appear to be winning over Trump on Iran.

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A judge ruled EPA termination of environmental justice grants was unlawful. EPA cannot “thumb its nose at Congress” by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.

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The U.S. is organizing evacuations of American citizens out of Israel as Trump considers U.S. strikes against Iran.

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The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

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Trump’s pick to head the Federal Aviation Administration has acknowledged he does not have a commercial pilot’s license — despite having claimed publicly for years to have one.

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Senate Republicans are trying to quell backlash to green energy tax credit reforms in the megabill. Now they’re under fire from key House Republicans too.

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President Trump has floated an American strike on Iranian nuclear sites as Israel and Iran enter their sixth day of conflict. “I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I mean nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

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Democrats walked out of the Senate Judiciary hearing probing Biden’s mental fitness. The committee ranking member accused Republicans of shirking their duties in favor of “armchair diagnosing” the former president 👇

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In the wake of the weekend shootings of state lawmakers in Minnesota, congressional members are clashing over whether to use more tax dollars for their own protection and security.

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Supreme Court upholds Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

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Lobbyists are in a mad dash to rescue energy tax incentives that the GOP megabill threatens to roll back. Trade groups and advocates have been releasing studies warning the bill could hurt employment in red states.

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Ted Cruz vs. Tucker Carlson: Conservatives clash over Iran policy

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Florida Democrat Josh Weil, who stunned the political world in March by raising nearly $14 million for a failed congressional special election bid, is now running for Senate.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given an unusual level of authority on the Israel-Iran tensions to Gen. Erik Kurilla, who is known as “The Gorilla.”

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More than 40 percent of New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo’s top endorsements by elected officials have come from people who publicly condemned him four years ago, a POLITICO review found.

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Congressional lawmakers are grappling with the reality of escalating political violence — and facing a dilemma about whether to pour more tax dollars into their own protection.

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Andrew Cuomo continues to lead the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, but the gap between him and top rival Zohran Mamdani is shrinking, according to a new poll.

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ANALYSIS: The strange political resurrection of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo illustrates how badly New York City’s institutions have broken down, writes Will Bredderman.

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COLUMN: Stephen Miran, head of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, sees a clear route to success for the U.S. president's trade policy. But it’s a narrow and precarious path, writes our economics correspondent Victoria Guida.

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After hours in the Situation Room, Trump has yet to announce a decision on Iran. “I think the odds are pretty good that the president will decide to join Israel in its fight against Iran,” @nahaltoosi.bsky.social says. She explains why on #playbookpod: ow.ly/lkAk50WbqAy

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As US pressure on Iran intensifies, allies like France warn against violent regime change. While many would welcome the fall of Iran’s leadership, Nahal Toosi says on #playbookpod: “The big question then is what happens after? And that’s … a Pandora’s box.” Listen here: ow.ly/uKCj50WbpQg

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John Eastman's disbarment has been upheld by a California Court. He lost his law license because of his role in Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election.

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In Thune’s perfect world, he’d be ready by this time next week to start voting on the megabill. But a host of concerns inside the GOP are threatening the majority leader’s grand July 4 plan.

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Eric Adams wants to sue the NYC Board of Elections because candidates running as independents can only appear on one ballot line. He wants to run on two.

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Trump will extend the deadline for TikTok to divest its US assets by another 90 days.

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Crapo is testing his colleagues’ commitment to making their tax plans a permanent part of the tax code.

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The NAACP intends to sue Musk over the pollution caused by his xAI turbines in South Memphis.

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🚨 BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron opposed bringing down the Iranian regime violently as he warned of potentially destabilizing effects across the Middle East. Full story: bit.ly/4kTIWJu

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The GOP's House-passed megabill would increase the U.S. deficit by $2.8 trillion over a decade when considering economic effects, according to the CBO.

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Copenhagen is willing to invest more in Greenland as Denmark tries to fend off U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to seize the Arctic island.

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Padilla said Trump is on a "tour of retribution" in his first floor speech since he was handcuffed at Noem's press briefing last week.

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WATCH: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is handcuffed and detained by ICE agents while escorting immigrants from immigration hearings. ow.ly/f23e50Wb3Oi 👇

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The GOP megabill is broadly unpopular — except with self-proclaimed MAGA Republicans, according to a series of new polls.

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Sen. Mike Lee, amid widespread outrage, has deleted a pair of social media posts associating the deadly Minnesota shootings with “Marxists” and the state’s Dem governor.

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NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander was handcuffed and detained by federal agents while escorting migrants from immigration hearings in Lower Manhattan.

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Kentucky Republican + Democrats move to block U.S. strikes on Iran

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Vance: Trump may ‘take further action’ to stop Iran

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Opinion: The endgame of Israel's attacks on Iran isn’t clear, even in Jerusalem, writes political economy professor Bernard Avishai.

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Senators get security briefing — and push for more funding for lawmaker protection — following Minnesota shootings.

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Former Sen. Bob Menendez — the onetime powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — reports to prison for 11-year sentence.

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The U.S. Senate is on the verge of handing the cryptocurrency industry one of their biggest lobbying wins ever Tuesday afternoon. But the landmark crypto bill still faces an intra-party GOP spat over how to advance the legislation in the House 👇

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President Trump said he would not “waste time” calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a shooter attacked two Democratic state lawmakers — killing one — over the weekend.

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The MAGA-backed plan to make Penn Station beautiful again

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s democratic socialist policies are a hit with affluent white voters. But he trails Andrew Cuomo among New Yorkers he says his plans will help the most.

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Cuts and freezes are jamming up some of the basic functions of government at agencies targeted in Trump’s rollbacks, more than a dozen federal employees told us.

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COLUMN: As world leaders convened Monday in Alberta for the G7 summit, a group of American governors and Canadian premiers were across the continent tallying the fallout from Trump’s preemptive trade war in dollars and cents. Jonathan Martin's dispatch 👇

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“What we have now is a president facing an absolutely critical decision, maybe the biggest decision of his presidency,” Jack Blanchard says on #playbookpod. Does he risk war with Iran to back Israel? Or does he choose diplomacy? Listen to our analysis: pod.link/1169056746/e...