The heads up is very important in politics and beyond. Speaker Johnson clearly was stunned by Musk’s criticism of “one big beautiful bill.” Along those lines, did Knicks owner give Brunson a heads up before dumping Thibs? He deserved another year — at a minimum.

Steelers at Jets week 1.

Charlie Kirk just said on Fox that Musk and Trump might reconcile. Wouldn’t bet on that. (And who would lead those peace talks?) Huge headache for Senate Majority Leader John Thune — Musk will likely bash Senate megabill as well.

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This is one of the best tennis matches in the history of tennis.

Senate passage of “one big beautiful bill” by July 4 is an uphill battle. Too many possible no votes with deadline fast approaching. Hawley, Collins and Murkowski on Medicaid, Collins and Murkowski on Planned Parenthood and Paul, Scott and Johnson on debt issues.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has voted AYE to advance President Trump's BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL. Motion to proceed now has 47 Republican yes votes.

Various House Republicans this year have threatened to vote no on CR, budget resolution and the House-passed BBB. Most caved and media has rightly pointed that out. That dynamic plays a role in this vote count. Will they relent yet again or push debate later into July?

At this time it’s hard to see how the rule vote can pass on the House floor this week. And that would mean punting beyond July 4. House Republicans cry wolf a lot but just quickly accepting the Senate-passed bill seems too much to swallow for GOP lawmakers in lower chamber.

That’s a bad sign for GOP leaders.

This rule vote is as dramatic as it gets in politics. Republicans down 10 votes and 10 Republicans haven’t voted. They need to get all 10 and flip one of the four no votes. Turn to C-SPAN to see how it ends!

House GOP leaders scored big wins on CR, budget resolution and passing BBB by one vote in May. But this is the SENATE-passed bill. And the House hates the Senate (regardless of which party is in the majority).

In 2003, House GOP leaders set up “door men” to keep all no votes inside the chamber on big Medicare Rx drug bill George W Bush pushed for and eventually got.

Look forward to the reporting on what is going on in the White House right now.

President Trump has been on a good run with Supreme Court rulings, foreign policy and Senate passage of “Big Beautiful” bill. Tonight looks like a big setback — though a version of this legislation will pass at some point.

Most networks have live coverage of this historic vote on Trump bill, but not all.

NEWS: The House just adopted the rule for the Trump megabill after the vote remained open for nearly 6 hours Final vote was 219-213, with 1 R —  Fitzpatrick — voting no. The rest of the GOP holdouts/opponents voted yes Next, debate. Then, final passage thehill.com/homenews/house…

That was one of the most stunning whip operation victories in history. Especially with such a small majority. President Trump’s primary threats a big factor. But Speaker Johnson’s genteel manner and doggedness also was key. And don’t forget Thune in his rookie year as Leader.

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One member of Congress said he asked a White House official what the holdouts got in return for supporting the bill, and said the response was, “f---ing nothing.”