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Oren Cass tells me young think tank American Compass is the “special forces team” working to make sure New Right populism lasts far beyond Trump VP JD Vance and Sec. State Marco Rubio speaking at its 5th anniversary gala tonight And it infuriates establishment conservatives 👇

ELON calls One Big Beautiful Bill a "disgusting abomination" and SHAMES House Rs who voted for it

guess those long texts from Speaker Johnson didn't change his mind...

SPEAKER JOHNSON says Musk is “terribly wrong” about the bill. Johnson said he spoke to Musk for more than 20 mins yesterday. “For him to come out and pan the whole bill is to me just very disappointing, very surprising in light of the conversation I had with him yesterday.”

Reporter: What’s your reaction to Elon Musk? Vought: We think the bill is very good one. We think it’s very strong fiscally… We understand where he’s coming from.. I don’t think there’s any way you could possibly suggest this is not a fiscally responsible bill.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher on plan to claw back funding from public broadcasting: “I want to be unequivocal about the significance and urgency of this threat.” Staff memo:

pop base ?????

The HFC “sounded the alarm” about this bill indeed. And then not a single Freedom Caucus member voted no** on the bill. Not one. If any HFC member had voted no, they could’ve blocked this bill. Not one did.

The reason Republicans have not moved on DOGE cut codification bills like this in committee is because they want to use the special rescissions process to bypass a Democratic filibuster. Under this process, once the White House submits to Congress funding it wants to withhold,

Rep. Thomas Massie spoke up in a House GOP conference meeting today challenging his Rs complaining about CBO math — Why don’t they remove the CBO director, then? “If you all are upset and think he's made that big of a math error, he's obviously in the wrong job”

Non-partisan CBO in new analysis estimates that OBBB would add $2.4 trillion to deficits between 2025-2034.

I just asked Speaker Johnson if Elon Musk’s discontent with the “Big Beautiful Bill” is a threat to keeping the House in 2026, and the speaker dove in on what he sees as a MYSTERIOUS MUSK 180 — Johnson says he talked to Musk for a half hour on Monday, says Musk was encouraged by

Johnson said Trump "is not delighted Elon did a 180 on that"

too risky to press luck on the one big beautiful bill

Great dive into MAGA rebellion on the Federalist Society by my colleagues Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee in their courts newsletter, The Gavel "Inside the White House, judicial appointments are being spearheaded by chief of staff Susie Wiles, White House counsel David Warrington

.Emily Brooks highlights the Freedom Caucus Foundation’s latest educational ad in The Movement newsletter

Some notable sponsors from last night’s American Compass gala: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, BlackRock & Google