DAILYCALLER (Mark Tanos) - Trump Slaps Down Reporter’s ‘Stupid Question’ About Senate Recess
‘The SAVE Act has to be done’
AXIOS (Stef W. Kight) - Senate rabble-rousers are gaining power
Hardline conservatives are gaining power in the Senate atop key committees. Why it matters: The senators known for rankling GOP leadership now have gavels that let them hold hearings, advance legislation and even issue subpoenas. Driving the news: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will be the new chair of the Budget Committee, Senate Republicans agreed in their closed-door lunch Tuesday. - The committee, which has a key role in reconciliation, had been chaired by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) - Johnson also chairs the Homeland Security subcommittee on investigations, allowing him to launch probes into everything from former President Biden's health to Meta's alleged cooperation with China. What to watch: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is next…
Hardline conservatives are gaining power in the Senate atop key committees. Why it matters: The senators known for rankling GOP leadership now have gavels that let them hold hearings, advance legislation and even issue subpoenas. Driving the news: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will be the new chair of the Budget Committee, Senate Republicans agreed in their closed-door lunch Tuesday. - The committee, which has a key role in reconciliation, had been chaired by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) - Johnson also chairs the Homeland Security subcommittee on investigations, allowing him to launch probes into everything from former President Biden's health to Meta's alleged cooperation with China. What to watch: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is next…Open
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Senators to examine hospital price transparency legislation
Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, and John Hickenlooper, D-Co., introduced the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act in July 2025, requiring hospitals to publicly report negotiated rates, costs and cash prices for ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers and clinical labs.
WASHINGTONPOST (Ben Binday) - Maine Democratic Senate candidates unite behind abolishing ICE after shooting
The leading candidates to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins are presenting themselves as fighters in his mold and calling for ICE to be abolished.
DAILYCALLER (Paris Apodaca) - Obama-Appointed Liberal Justice May Not Be Impartial After All, Group Warns Senators
‘manual’s bias was so egregious’
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Senators will demand spending offset with cuts elsewhere in reconciliation bill: Ron Johnson
Johnson, who will take over as chair of the Senate Budget Committee following Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, will inherit the management of the budget reconciliation process that Republicans intended to use to avoid Democratic opposition to their newest legislative proposals.
NYTIMES (Michael M. Grynbaum) - Senators Grill Justice Dept. Officials on New York Times Subpoenas
Democrats questioned the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, and a U.S. attorney about subpoenas issued to Times journalists who reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane.
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - Trump answers whether Russia had role in Lindsey Graham's death, gives updates on Iran, McConnell
Greg Kelly asks President Donald Trump whether Russia played a role in Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, and the president gives updates on the Iran conflict, Sen. Mitch McConnell and more.
NYTIMES (Annie Karni) - Graham’s Death Highlights Congress’s Age Issue
By the standards of the aging Senate, where the average age is more than 65, the South Carolina Republican wasn’t particularly old.
BITCHUTE - Senators demand answers following WSJ’s scoop that Polymarket is now under federal investigation
Aired On: 7/2/2026