Health Bill Does Not ‘cut’ Medicaid Spending, Republicans Argue

“Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged on Friday additional luxury travel he had accepted from a conservative billionaire, amending a previous financial disclosure to reflect trips he had taken to an Indonesian island and a secretive all-male club in the Northern California redwoods,” the New York Times reports. “The trips, taken in 2019, were earlier revealed by ProPublica, but it is the first time that Justice Thomas has included them on his financial disclosures.”

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is not ruling out becoming a member of the Republican Party, or serving in Donald Trump’s administration if he wins the November election, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

NOTUS: “People do not like to be on it, but they also once again have to be.”

“Federal prosecutors rested their case at Hunter Biden’s trial Friday after calling a slew of witnesses who told jurors about his descent into crack cocaine addiction and his purchase of a handgun in 2018,” Politico reports. “Biden’s attorneys are expected to put on a brief defense case that will likely wrap up early next week.

“Donald Trump made his most direct pitch yet to the Silicon Valley elite on Thursday evening, telling a group of entrepreneurs in San Francisco that if he were to lose in November, many of them would feel so unsafe that they would need to leave the United States,” the New York Times reports. “Speaking inside a $20 million home on a street sometimes called ‘Billionaire’s Row’ in one of the country’s most iconic liberal cities, Mr.

Adam Frisch (D) is a former city councilman who came within 546 votes of defeating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) in 2022. He was such a strong candidate that Boebert fled to a new district rather than face him again this year. Frisch now awaits his Republican challenger to be chosen in a June 25 primary. I’ll be holding private video conversation with him on Monday, June 10 at 4:30 p.m.