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Musk claimed 40% of calls to Social Security came from scammers. It was a lie. Leland Dudek — plucked from a midlevel job to run SS -- got an angry call from the WH. “The number is 40 percent,” Katie Miller told him. “Do not contradict the president" nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/…

Tina Smith D-MN on her talk to Mike Lee R-UT: "I think that he honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted."

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full email below

Sen. Hawley after GOP Conference meeting says he’s “alarmed” by Medicaid changes in Senate reconciliation text. He says it will “defund rural hospitals in order to, what, pay for solar panels in China.” “I’d be really interested to see what the president thinks about this”

🚨🚨🚨President Trump is cutting his G7 trip short. “President Trump will return to Washington tonight so he can attend to many important matters,” Karoline Leavitt says

A Scoop: Trump officials reverse course -- now telling agents to keep raiding farms & hotels for immigrants. ICE is told White House wants higher numbers W ⁦Natalie Allison⁩ ⁦Marianne LeVine⁩ ⁦Lauren Kaori Gurley⁩ washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

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Rather than softening the Medicaid cuts in Republican's megabill, the Senate has made them even more aggressive: nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/…

A couple of weeks ago, the Senate was ready to hit the gas on a big Russia sanctions package. The Middle East crisis coupled with the push on Trump's megabill has stalled it, however. w/ Burgess Everett semafor.com/article/06/17/…

TRUMP on the South Lawn tells reporters on possible US strike against Iran "I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm gonna do."

NEWS: DOJ plans to slash the number of inspectors who monitor federally licensed gun dealers by two-thirds — effectively ending federal oversight intended to prevent sales to criminals and straw purchasers, in the view of ATF staff. nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/…

Senators seeking lots of changes to the "big, beautiful bill." To name a few: -Medicaid -clean energy credits -"forcing mechanism" for second reconciliation measure to cut more spending -SNAP -spectrum washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/…

From Ben Smith on Cuomo skipping out on The New York Editorial Board’s interview:

Jefferson County fundraiser featuring Eric Trump sells out after move to 'undisclosed location' (via: Ernest Lee Luning ) coloradopolitics.com/elections/2026…

A friend and political observer texts some food for thought: Why doesn’t everyone start dressing like that, including all immigrants? Then they won’t know who to apprehend

Elizabeth Warren castigates Trump's 'big, ugly bill' at Colorado Democrats' annual dinner | TRAIL MIX (via: Ernest Lee Luning ) coloradopolitics.com/columnists/eli…

“The Senegal women’s national basketball team cancelled a 10-day training camp in the U.S. from June 22 to July 3 after the U.S. rejected visas for five players, six staff members and a ministerial delegation”

GOP House members from Colorado call on Polis to end health care funding for illegal immigrants (via: Ernest Lee Luning ) coloradopolitics.com/governor/gop-h… via Colorado Politics

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It’s disappointing that Vice President JD Vance JD Vance & team did not allow local reporters inside his Los Angeles press event. At this inflection point in L.A. history, they only took questions from national reporters. Hopefully that changes in the future. And yes…I called out then Pres.