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House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s «one big, beautiful bill» on Thursday morning, working through overnight committee meetings, last-minute huddles in the speaker’s office and even a last-minute assist from the president. 

But while House GOP leadership preached party unity as they passed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act by just one vote, two House Republican holdouts were unwavering in their concerns about the $36 trillion national debt crisis and ultimately voted «no.» 

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Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, took their concerns to social media on Thursday, telling their constituents exactly why they bucked the Republican Party on Trump’s key legislative agenda. 

«While I love many things in the bill, promising someone else will cut spending in the future does not cut spending. Deficits do matter and this bill grows them now. The only Congress we can control is the one we’re in. Consequently, I cannot support this big deficit plan. NO,» Davidson said early Thursday morning before the vote was final. 

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President Donald Trump, left, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. (Getty Images)

Massie responded soon after, telling Davidson he agreed and «if we were serious, we’d be cutting spending now, instead of promising to cut spending years from now.»

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«I’d love to stand here and tell the American people, ‘We can cut your taxes and increase spending and everything is going to be just fine.’ But I can’t do that because I’m here to deliver a dose of reality. This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near-term, but promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before?» Massie said on the House floor. 

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President Donald Trump, left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The Kentucky congressman, who regularly sports a national debt clock pin, presented a bleak reality for Trump’s «big, beautiful bill» on Thursday as most Republican holdouts rallied behind the final manager’s amendment. «This bill is a debt bomb ticking,» Massie said. 

When White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Massie and Davidson voting against the bill, she said the president believes they should be primaried. 

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«I don’t think he likes to see grandstanders in Congress. What’s the alternative? I would ask those members of Congress. Did they want to see a tax hike? Did they want to see our country go bankrupt? That’s the alternative by them trying to vote ‘no.’ The president believes the Republican Party needs to be unified,» Leavitt said. 

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Massie, who has been campaigning on Trump calling him a grandstander, even fundraised on Leavitt’s comments, writing on X, «The big beautiful bill has issues. I chose to vote against it because it’s going to blow up our debt. For voting on principle, I now have the President AND his press Secretary campaigning against me from the White House podium. Can you help me by donating?»

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Former Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who served as Chair of the House Freedom Caucus, has spoken out against the country’s debt crisis amid House negotiations, piled on the national debt criticism on Thursday, writing, «The Big Ugly Truth is that the Big Ugly Bill will push the Big Ugly Debt over $60 trillion.»

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House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans celebrated passing Trump’s «big, beautiful bill» on Thursday. (Getty Images)

Good found himself out of the job when he lost the Republican primary to now-Rep. John McGuire of Virginia last year. 

He was one of just a handful of House Republicans who endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries, and then Trump threw his political might behind McGuire.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a multitrillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump’s agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt. 

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While the bill seeks to make a dent in the national debt crisis by cutting roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending, the U.S. still has over $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year 2025, according to the Treasury Department.

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«I think the most essential truth in American politics is that nobody actually really cares about the national debt or deficit. It’s too abstract to saturate public sentiment,» Fox News Digital columnist David Marcus said after the bill passed. 

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report. 

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La próxima aventura empresarial de la familia de Donald Trump: llega «Trump Mobile», una compañía de telefonía celular

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La familia Trump informó haber autorizado el uso de su nombre para un nuevo servicio de telefonía móvil, el más reciente de una serie de emprendimientos que se han anunciado mientras el presidente Donald Trump ocupa la Casa Blanca, a pesar de las preocupaciones éticas de que el mandatario pudiera moldear la política pública para su beneficio personal.

Eric Trump, uno de los hijos del presidente Donald Trump que dirige The Trump Organization, dijo que el nuevo emprendimiento, llamado Trump Mobile, venderá teléfonos que se fabricarán en Estados Unidos, y que el servicio de telefonía también mantendrá un centro de llamadas en el país.

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El anuncio del nuevo servicio, llamado T1 Mobile, se produce después de varios acuerdos inmobiliarios para construir torres y resorts en el Oriente Medio, entre ellos, un desarrollo de golf en Qatar anunciado en abril. El mes pasado se aprobó una asociación de 1.500 millones de dólares para construir campos de golf, hoteles y proyectos inmobiliarios en Vietnam, pero el acuerdo ya estaba en proceso antes de que Trump fuera elegido.

Incluso la supervisión de una empresa así, con el nombre Trump adjunto, plantea preocupaciones éticas.

El mandatario ya ha utilizado el gobierno federal para recompensar a sus aliados y castigar a sus enemigos. La Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones, el principal organismo regulador que supervisa las empresas de telefonía móvil, ya ha lanzado investigaciones sobre medios de comunicación que Trump no aprecia y a los que, en algunos casos, está demandando personalmente.

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Donald Trump Jr. participa en el anuncio del Trump Mobile, en la Torre Trump de Nueva York. Foto AP

Aun así, Eric Trump declaró el lunes que los consumidores merecen un teléfono que coincida con sus valores.

“Los estadounidenses que trabajan duro merecen un servicio inalámbrico asequible, que refleje sus valores y ofrezca una calidad confiable”, manifestó en un comunicado.

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Trump criticó a Apple el mes pasado porque planeaba fabricar la mayoría de sus iPhones estadounidenses en India, y amenazó con imponer un arancel del 25% a los dispositivos a menos que el gigante tecnológico comience a fabricar el producto en su país de origen.

La compañía afirmó el lunes que el nuevo T1 Phone, de color dorado, que estará disponible en agosto por 499 dólares, no será diseñado ni fabricado por Trump Mobile, sino por otra empresa.

Hasta el momento, The Trump Organization no ha respondido a una solicitud para proporcionar más detalles.

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Un modelo del teléfono que aparece en el sitio web de la compañía muestra el eslogan de Trump, “Make America Great” (“Hagamos grande a Estados Unidos”) en el frente y una bandera estadounidense grabada en la parte trasera.

Eric Trump, Don Hendrickson, Eric Thomas, Patrick O'Brien y Donald Trump Jr., de izquierda a derecha, participan en el anuncio de Trump Mobile, en la Torre Trump de Nueva York. Foto APEric Trump, Don Hendrickson, Eric Thomas, Patrick O’Brien y Donald Trump Jr., de izquierda a derecha, participan en el anuncio de Trump Mobile, en la Torre Trump de Nueva York. Foto AP

El servicio, que costará 47,45 dólares al mes, se asociará con operadores de telefonía celular existentes con acceso a una red 5G. El servicio de Trump ofrecerá mensajes de texto y llamadas gratis, además de datos ilimitados. También proporcionará asistencia en carretera gratuita y un servicio de telemedicina que permitirá que los usuarios obtengan recetas.

El nombre dado a la oferta de servicio mensual, The 47 Plan, también hace referencia a la presidencia. Trump fue el 45to presidente y actualmente es el 47mo.

Al ceñirse a la concesión de licencias, la familia Trump limita su riesgo. Aun así, el nuevo servicio enfrenta grandes desafíos si espera vender más allá de los leales seguidores del movimiento MAGA (“Make America Great Again” o “Hagamos grande a Estados Unidos otra vez”) del presidente.

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La compañía de Trump intentó aprovechar el apoyo que el republicano obtuvo entre la clase media en su primer mandato con una cadena de hoteles de precio medio. Llamada American Idea, y presentada, al igual que el servicio telefónico, bajo una gran bandera de Estados Unidos en el atrio de la Torre Trump, fracasó.

A pesar de ingresar millones de dólares cada año en varios acuerdos de licencia y una serie de nuevos emprendimientos, la marca Trump ha sufrido una serie de golpes a lo largo de los años.

En su primer mandato, el nombre de Trump fue eliminado de edificios residenciales y hoteles en Toronto, Panamá y Manhattan. Tras el ataque al Capitolio ocurrido el 6 de enero, los bancos se negaron a prestar a la empresa familiar.

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El Trump International Hotel en Washington, que fue vendido posteriormente, perdió dinero a pesar de que la familia abrió sus puertas a ejecutivos de negocios, cabilderos y diplomáticos que intentaban influir en la política de Estados Unidos.

Y el condominio promedio en torres residenciales con la marca Trump ha tenido un desempeño inferior al del mercado en general en varias ciudades durante años, durante y justo después del primer mandato de Trump. En la ciudad de Nueva York, el valor de los condominios Trump ha caído un 2% en los últimos dos años, aunque los precios de sus equivalentes construidos aproximadamente durante el mismo período han aumentado. Esos índices subieron un 8% y un 14%, respectivamente, según CityRealty.

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Federal judge extends ban on Trump’s order targeting Harvard international students

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A federal judge in Boston agreed Monday to extend a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s attempt to block international students from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard. 

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The update is a near-term win for the nation’s oldest university in its months-long fight with the Trump administration.

Lawyers for Harvard had urged U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs on Monday to extend two restraining orders that blocked the Trump administration from revoking its credentials under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVP, and which temporarily blocked a proclamation Trump signed earlier this month that barred foreign nationals from traveling to the U.S. if they planned to study or research at Harvard. 

«The proclamation is a plain violation of the First Amendment,» Ian Gershengorn, a lawyer for Harvard, told Judge Burroughs in court on Monday in seeking a preliminary injunction, a more lasting form of court-ordered relief. 

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Banners on the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)

Burroughs extended the temporary restraining order through June 23, noting that she needed more time to formally rule on the request for injunctive relief.

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«We’ll kick out an opinion as soon as we can,» she told the court Monday afternoon, shortly before proceedings wrapped for the day.

At issue is a push to revoke Harvard’s credentials under its SEVP program, announced by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in May; and a separate proclamation signed by Trump in June, seeking to block foreign nationals from entering the U.S. if they were planning to study or conduct research at Harvard. 

Both actions were temporarily blocked by Burroughs. Now, lawyers for the school are pushing for a more permanent form of relief known as a preliminary injunction.

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In the interim, lawyers for Harvard said that the Trump administration’s actions have injected «unnecessary uncertainty for Harvard and its students, who may yet again have their status as lawfully present nonimmigrants in the United States abruptly and categorically rescinded.»

Harvard argued that the Trump administration’s actions would violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the First Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment – injecting «continued chaos and lasting damage on Harvard for no compelling reason,» they said in a filing.

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller addresses reporters

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump officials have accused Harvard University of «fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,» according to a statement earlier this year, and for failing to account for «known illegal activity» on its campus. 

Lawyers for Harvard told Burroughs in court on Monday that these actions have already injected uncertainty into the lives of their international students. 

They noted that some foreign students were incorrectly denied visas after indicating their plans to study at Harvard, while at least four other students were wrongfully detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials earlier this month upon arriving in the U.S. at Boston’s Logan International Airport. 

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Harvard President Alan Garber acknowledges an extended round of applause during Harvard University's commencement ceremonies, Thursday, May 29, 2025 in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Harvard President Alan Garber acknowledges an extended round of applause during Harvard University’s commencement ceremonies, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Harvard is also fighting to retain its SEVP accreditation. The program is run by the Department of Homeland Security and allows universities to sponsor international students for U.S. visas for the duration of their enrollment at a public university.

If it loses that status, experts previously told Fox News, thousands of international students currently enrolled at Harvard will have a narrow window to either transfer to another U.S. university, or risk losing their student visas within 180 days.

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Lawyers for Harvard previously told Burroughs that ending their SEVP certification would affect roughly 7,000 international students at Harvard – or some 27% of its total student body. 

Monday’s hearing was the latest in a string of legal dust-ups that have pitted Harvard against the Trump administration – or vice versa – in Trump’s second White House term.

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Harvard graduation anti-Israel protest

Cambridge, MA – May 23: Hundreds of graduates walked out of the 2024 Commencement in Harvard Yard to call attention to the plight of Palestinians.  (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Since Trump took office in January, the administration has already frozen more than $2 billion in grants and contracts awarded to the university, and is proposing to end its tax-exempt status, among other things. 

The administration is also targeting Harvard with investigations led by six separate federal agencies. 

Combined, these actions have created a wide degree of uncertainty at Harvard.

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Legal experts noted the court is wading into largely uncharted territory. 

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Asked how it might play out, many scholars pointed to a lack of precedent and offered no clear answer.

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 «As with many things that Trump does, the answer is unclear, because it hasn’t been done before,» Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law, said last month. «No president has tried to do this before, so I don’t think there’s a clear precedent on the answer.»

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Israel activates ‘Barak Magen’ aerial defenses for system’s first ever interception

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Israel activated a new aerial defense system – dubbed «Barak Magen,» meaning «lightning shield» – for the first time on Sunday night, saying it intercepted and destroyed multiple Iranian drones.

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The Israeli Navy intercepted eight Iranian drones using the «Barak Magen» and its long-range air defense (LRAD) interceptor, which were launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

John Hannah, senior fellow at The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and the co-author of a report published earlier this month on Israel’s defense against two massive Iranian missile attacks in 2024, told Fox News Digital on Monday that the air defense system «significantly enhances» the air and missile defense architecture of Israel’s navy.

«The Barak Magen is simply another arrow in the expanding quiver of Israel’s highly sophisticated and increasingly diverse multi-tiered missile defense architecture – which was already, by leaps and bounds, the most advanced and experienced air defense system fielded by any country in the world,» Hannah said.

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The «Barak Magen» interceptors were launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship. (Israel Defense Forces)

The system can intercept a «wide range of threats,» according to the IDF, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cruise missiles, high-trajectory threats and shore-to-sea missiles.

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Hannah said the system not only provides force protection for the Israeli fleet but also gives long-distance protection to Israel’s expanding oil and gas infrastructure in the eastern Mediterranean, along with critical infrastructure and population centers located along Israel’s coastline.

«It allows Israel to conduct interceptions at significant distances from the Israeli homeland, both out in the eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and thereby adds critically important strategic depth when defending Israel’s tiny geographic area,» he said.

The IDF said that the Israeli Navy’s missile ship flotilla has intercepted about 25 UAVs that posed a threat to Israel since the conflict with Iran escalated.

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Israel and Iran traded missile strikes for the fourth day on Monday, with Iran firing a new wave of strikes that killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more.

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An Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025, in Tehran, Iran.  (Stringer/Getty Images)

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Meanwhile, the Israeli military claimed it had achieved air superiority above Tehran, warning about 330,000 people in a central part of the Iranian capital to evacuate ahead of new strikes.


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