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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will "run out of funding" on Saturday and close to the public due to the government shutdown, a court official said. The court will otherwise be open for business and the justices will still be hearing, deciding cases, etc. #SCOTUS
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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Putin arrives in Alaska for a summit with Trump on the Russia-Ukraine war.
first in @NJSpotlightNews
The Trump administration has plans to detain immigrants at two military bases.
one is in New Jersey, the other in Indiana
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NEWS ---->
The Trump administration plans to use a military base in New Jersey to hold immigrant detainees.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told members of Congress this week.
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NEW: You may have read a lot about Medicaid cuts.
You may not have read much about how those cuts will affect abortion -- including in states where abortion is legal, like New Jersey.
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NEW: Congress sure looks like it's about to blow giant holes in the New Jersey budget.
As @AndyKimNJ put it to me this week about New Jersey's finances and federal budget cuts --->
"...we’re just not in a position to offset.”
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ben hulac retweeted
Newly proposed sections for the immense tax package pending in Congress would keep the state and local tax deduction, or SALT deduction, capped at $10,000 after Republicans in the House agreed to raise the limit to $40,000. ow.ly/fBKe50WbGVw
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full email below
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"Federal threats to foreign aid programs and public news stations grew this week after the House passed legislation to rescind $9.4 billion in funding Congress had already approved." @benhulac @NJSpotlightNews njspotlightnews.org/2025/06/…
Pam Bondi disclosed today she sold off positions in Donald Trump's media company that runs the president's social-media platform Truth Social. Bondi sold between $1.25 million and $5.5 million in Trump Media assets on May 2.
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NEW: Last year, Tom Kean was pleased to get on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.
But now, his seat on that particular committee could come back to haunt him politically.
njspotlightnews.org/2025/05/…
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NEWS: On Friday, Donald Trump signed a bill into law that ends a regulation to cap most bank overdraft fees at $5.
The banking lobbying tried -- and now succeeded -- to kill the regulation.
I wrote about it last month @NJSpotlightNews.
njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/…
NEWS: One of Republicans' favorite political targets is a 2022 law to combat the climate crisis.
Now, two Republicans from New Jersey want to protect parts of that law.
njspotlightnews.org/2025/02/…
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“If President Trump directed you to do something illegal or unconstitutional, would you refuse to obey?” Senator Tammy Duckworth asked.
Pres. Trump's pick for Commerce Dept. Howard Lutnick: “He won’t.”
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