Trump Expected To Sign
President Trump takes a victory lap on his big bill. But will he still be celebrating when the political bill comes due and millions of Americans may be hurt by it? Plus, an alternate juror in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial speaks exclusively to CNN's Laura Coates on the prosecution evidence that landed, and more that didn't.
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Fox News
22 minutes ago
- Fox News
Big Beautiful Bill immediately hits the campaign trail in battle for Congress
President Donald Trump signs the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package that he and the GOP call the "One Big Beautiful Bill," into law on Friday at the White House. The massive tax cuts and spending bill passed the House and Senate this week by razor-thin margins along near party lines. But the political battle over the bill is far from over, as it moves from Capitol Hill to the campaign trail. "I'm deeply concerned about this bill and what this will do. We're going to be talking a lot about it," Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire told Fox News Digital on Friday. Pappas, who's running in the crucial 2026 race to succeed retiring longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for a Democrat-held seat Republicans would love to flip, took aim at the bill. "This was a one-party effort and unfortunately it arrived at a conclusion that I think is not good for our state and for our country," Former Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who last month announced his candidacy for the Senate, sees things differently, and he praised the president for helping GOP leaders in Congress get the bill to his desk at the White House. "The things he said he was going to do, he's actually done. For somebody in politics to actually do that I think is very rare," Brown said of Trump. The bill is stuffed full of Trump's 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. It includes extending his signature 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. By making his first-term tax rates permanent - they were set to expire later this year - the bill will cut taxes by nearly $4.4 trillion over the next decade, according to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The measure also provides billions for border security and codifies the president's controversial immigration crackdown. And the bill also restructures Medicaid — the nearly 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. Additionally, Senate Republicans increased cuts to Medicaid over what the House initially passed in late May. The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation's major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump's tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage. And the $3.4 trillion legislative package is also projected to surge the national debt by $4 trillion over the next decade. Democrats for a couple of months have blasted Republicans over the social safety net changes. "We're going to be talking about this bill because the results are that 46,000 people in New Hampshire will lose their health insurance. We'll have people that will go hungry, that won't be able to access assistance," Pappas warned. "And we know that insurance premiums for all Granite Staters could go up as a result of uncompensated care costs and the burden that this places on our hospitals." The four-term congressman, who was interviewed by Fox News on Friday as he arrived for the annual July 4th naturalization ceremony in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, noted that "we've been hearing from folks and engaging with people all across the state on this issue." Democrats have spotlighted a slew of national polls conducted last month that indicate the bill's popularity in negative territory. By a 21-point margin, voters questioned in the most recent Fox News national poll opposed the bill (38% favored vs. 59% opposed). The bill was also underwater in other national surveys conducted last month by the Washington Post (minus 19 points), Pew Research (minus 20 points) and Quinnipiac University (minus 26 points). About half of respondents questioned in the Fox News poll said the bill would hurt their family (49%), while one quarter thought it would help (23%), and another quarter didn't think it would make a difference (26%). Asked about criticism from Democrats on the Medicaid cuts, Brown said "my mom was on welfare. Those are very important programs and I've said already that the people that actually need them the most, the ones who are disabled, the ones who can't get out and work, they should have them." "It's meant for lower and middle-income people and I support them getting those benefits. But I don't support who are here illegally get them," Brown said. And he added that he doesn't support giving the benefits to "people who are able-bodied and can absolutely go out and do some volunteerism, go out and work." Republicans are also going on offense over the bill, targeting Democrats for voting against the tax cuts. Republicans are shining a spotlight on recent polls conducted by GOP-aligned groups that indicate strong support for the bill due to the tax cut provisions. Brown, who was interviewed by Fox News after he marched in the annual Brentwood, New Hampshire July 4th parade, said "obviously keeping the 2017 tax cuts in place. Certainly for individuals and businesses, it's really really critical." And pointing to Pappas, whose family for over a century has owned Manchester's iconic Puritan Backroom restaurant, Brown said "for someone like Chris Pappas, imagine walking into the restaurant he owns and telling his employees 'oh by the way I'm not going to support your no tax on tips, your no tax on overtime.' How do you do that?" Asked about the GOP attacks, Pappas said "I support targeted tax cuts for working people, for our small businesses and to make sure we are targeting that relief to the people that need it, not to billionaires, to the biggest corporations in way that adds $4 trillion to the national debt as this bill does." "We hoped there would be an opportunity for a bipartisan conversation on taxes and how we can invest in the middle class and working people and our small businesses and unfortunately that didn't happen," he added.
CBS News
27 minutes ago
- CBS News
El Salvador president denies Kilmar Abrego Garcia's allegations of beatings, abuse in prison
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers concerned that he could be deported again The president of El Salvador is refuting allegations made by Kilmar Abrego Garcia - the man whose mistaken deportation by the Trump administration has fueled a monthslong legal saga – in which he said he was beaten and subject to psychological torture while in prison in the Central American country. President Nayib Bukele, in a post on the social media platform X, wrote that Abrego Garcia "wasn't tortured, nor did he lose weight." He included pictures and video of Abrego Garcia in a detention cell at El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT," earlier this year. "If he'd been tortured, sleep-deprived, and starved, why does he look so well in every picture?" Bukele wrote. Sen. Van Hollen, right, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a hotel restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 17, 2025. Press Office Senator Van Hollen, via AP This week, Abrego Garcia alleged in a new legal filing that he faced "psychological torture" and "severe beatings" after he was sent to the notorious supermax prison the Trump administration had mistakenly deported him to in March. In the court documents filed Wednesday, Abrego Garcia said he was kicked and hit so often after his arrival that by the following day, he had visible bruises and lumps all over his body. He said he and 20 others were forced to kneel all night long and guards hit anyone who fell. Abrego Garcia's lawyers have previously described his more than three-week stint at CECOT as "torture." In the new court documents, Abrego Garcia said detainees at CECOT "were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation." After more than three weeks, Abrego Garcia alleged he was transferred to a different area and was "photographed with mattresses and better food" in what he believed to be staged images. Abrego Garcia's description falls in line with accounts from other Salvadorans who were detained under Bukele's state of emergency, where the government has detained more than 1% of the Central American nation's population in its war on the country's gangs. Hundreds of people have died in the prisons, according to human rights groups, which have also documented cases of torture and deteriorated conditions. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was living in Maryland when he was mistakenly deported and became a flashpoint in President Trump's immigration crackdown. He was flown back to the U.S. in early June — months after a Maryland judge ordered his return — and promptly charged with human smuggling in Tennessee The new details of Abrego Garcia's incarceration in El Salvador were added to a lawsuit against the Trump administration that Abrego Garcia's wife filed in Maryland federal court after he was deported. The Trump administration has asked a federal judge in Maryland to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that it is now moot because the government returned him to the United States as ordered by the court.
Wall Street Journal
35 minutes ago
- Wall Street Journal
What the U.S. Learned From the 12-Day War
In his Weekend Interview with Walter Russell Mead, 'The Strike on Iran Was 'Jacksonian' ' (June 28), Tunku Varadarajan notes that Israel is in many ways America's 'most reliable partner' in global security matters. Mr. Mead refers to the Jewish state as 'a fantastic ally' that spends a greater share of its gross domestic product on defense than does the U.S. In 2021, Ron Dermer, now Israel's minister of strategic affairs, predicted that Jerusalem would become Washington's most important ally. That, he admitted, was a big claim for a country the size of New Jersey. But a hypothetical helped to test it: If the U.S. had to choose only one ally, which would it choose?
