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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill faces a revolt in the House. The Senate version adds $3.3 trillion to the deficit and includes deeper Medicaid cuts. The Freedom Caucus says no. The vote could fail today.

July 2, 2025 10:14 am

President Trump’s flagship legislation is now hanging by a thread. The “Big Beautiful Bill” cleared the Senate on July 1 after a 26-hour vote marathon, but it did so with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance. That alone signals trouble. The bill now returns to the House, where the revised version is triggering …

$1.5T in cuts pledged $383B in cuts delivered $3.3T deficit projection now on the record. The Freedom Caucus held the line The line got erased

July 1, 2025 8:53 am

Mike Johnson didn’t offer a handshake. He gave a guarantee. In private, he told his own party he would carve $1.5 trillion in spending cuts into Trump’s domestic agenda package. That was the price. The commitment was locked. April 2025. Not ceremonial. Binding. Now look at the paper. The reconciliation bill passed. The cuts didn’t. …

House Freedom Caucus threatens to tank the Megabill. It’s all about (lack of) spending cuts. Rand Paul slams $2 trillion deficit

June 29, 2025 10:03 pm

Speaker Mike Johnson is also privately telling GOP fiscal hawks that he’s pushing Senate Majority Leader John Thune to add back in hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts the Senate dropped, according to two people with direct knowledge of the conversations. But fiscal hawks have been skeptical the Senate will comply. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/29/congress/house-gop-leaders-watch-senate-anxiously-as-they-work-to-secure-votes-00432288 Republican …

Greg Lopez (R-CO) of Musk’s DOGE Caucus says “there will be cuts” to Social Security and Medicare.

December 18, 2024 10:45 am

It’s just a matter of where and how much Musk will cut our Social Security and Medicare benefits now. BREAKING: @RepGregLopez says outside the first meeting of the DOGE Caucus that "there will be some cuts" to Social Security and Medicare. HANDS OFF OUR EARNED BENEFITS! pic.twitter.com/NFYjA6hdEo — Social Security Works ❌👑 (@SSWorks) December 17, …

Biden LOSES the American Samoa caucus in embarrassing LANDSLIDE defeat

March 6, 2024 9:53 am

President Joe Biden suffered a shock defeat on Super Tuesday, losing American Samoa’s caucuses to unknown candidate Jason Palmer. The president was beaten in the tiny U.S. territory in the South Pacific that isn’t awarded Electoral College votes but can still send Democratic delegates to this summer’s convention. Just 91 Democrats turned out to vote, …

BREAKING: House Freedom Caucus has called for Senator Mitch McConnell to be replaced immediately instead of waiting until November.

February 29, 2024 9:24 am

Today’s Senate is so CORRUPT that McConnell’s replacement is going to be just as bad unless there is a miracle. Pray for a miracle! Let’s get some MAGA/AMERICA FIRST! BREAKING: House Freedom Caucus has called for Senator Mitch McConnell to be replaced immediately instead of waiting until November. — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) February 28, 2024 …

Trump’s Triumph in Iowa: A Sleepless Victory Amidst Unfair Challenges

January 16, 2024 6:27 am

In a political whirlwind, Donald Trump emerges victorious in the Iowa Caucuses, securing a massive landslide according to Jake Tapper. The news came so early that even Tapper, a CNN correspondent, remarked, “This is the earliest I can remember ever calling such a thing.” What makes this triumph even more remarkable is the context provided …

President Trump Wins Iowa Caucus in Landslide

January 15, 2024 9:09 pm

Former President Donald Trump won the first GOP presidential voting contest of 2024 in Iowa on Monday by a wide margin, according to multiple reports. Despite historically harsh weather conditions, Iowans turned out for Trump, putting him one step closer to the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential election, according to multiple outlets. The victory …

Hunter Biden Shows Congressional Women Caucus Who’s Boss

January 12, 2024 7:13 amJanuary 11, 2024 7:38 pm

by Chris Black I wish Hunter would run for president instead of his daddy. I’d vote for him, fr fr no cap. How can Hunter Biden just walk out of a hearing like this? Because he knows he can pic.twitter.com/7tzQx7StZH — Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) January 10, 2024 He showed up and then stormed out. Alpha af. …

Bill Kristol Urges Democrats to Register Republican to Change the Results of the Iowa Caucus: “They can be #RepublicansForADay to help

December 27, 2023 7:56 am

Desperation sets in at the highest level. What a moral proposition! 🤬 pic.twitter.com/F1w8PZwA5Z — Mercan Troy (@MercanTroy) December 26, 2023 h/t dr0id

Colorado Republican party responds to Vivek. Pledges to withdraw the party and go to pure caucus system if judgment allowed to stand

December 20, 2023 7:26 am

You won't have to because we will withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand. — Colorado Republican Party (@cologop) December 20, 2023

House Freedom Caucus torpedoed rule vote on H.R.463, failing 206-220.

June 7, 2023 7:49 am

via townhall: There was a clash between Republican members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon as members of the House Freedom Caucus torpedoed a rule vote on the floor of the lower chamber, reportedly the first time such a procedural tactic had been used in years. The vote was on the rule for H.R.463, …