Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
Trump Admin Deports Barbaric Criminals to a Tiny African Country You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
The lowest creatures in society, not booted from America until the Trump administration stepped in.
'When You Made a Mistake…': Billionaire Home Depot Founder Does 180 on Trump's Tariffs, Presidency
"I am sold on Trump," Langone told the hosts. "In fact, I will say this. I think he's got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever."
New: Trump and Abbott End Run Around Democrat 2026 Hopes, and a Total Freak-Out Ensues
The GOP needs to leave no stone unturned in the states they control. If that means mid-decade redistricting, then so be it.
Trending Across Townhall Media
DHS Directs ICE Agents to Turn In P320s for G19s
As things currently stand, I'm not sure I'd trust any Sig Sauer product at the moment, in part because I know if there's something wrong with it, they're unlikely to accept that there's a problem in the first place.
Jerome's House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House
No one's falling for the IG on the rooftop terrace trick.
The Kamala Harris-ing of Gavin Newsom Is Underway
Obviously, the longer that Newsom, the MSM hacks, and the power players at the Democratic National Committee believe this tortured political fairy tale, the better it is for the Republicans. Regular Americans aren't very caught up in the Democrats' non-reality campaigns.
After Endorsing That Trash Immigration Compromise, This GOP Congresswoman Has to Go
Get with the program or get primaried.
They've Got Him THIS Time! Vile Lefties 'Pounce' on Trump's Hand and Ankles to Show Us Who They Are
It would be funny even if everyone on the left HADN'T tried to deny the truth about Joe Biden for four years.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
The Senate managed to clear the procedural hurdles on the rescissions package of $9 billion in recommended DOGE cuts on Tuesday evening, with back-to-back 51-50 votes (with Vice President JD Vance serving as the tiebreaker) that cleared the way for debate. A "vote-a-rama" will take place beginning at 1:30 PM Eastern, teeing up a vote later tonight. Assuming it passes, it goes back to the House for final approval before the midnight Friday deadline.
Meanwhile, the House will take another pass at the GENIUS Act following a come-to-Jesus meeting between GOP holdouts and President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening.
READ MORE: Breaking: Senate Takes Critical Procedural Vote on Rescissions Package
But that's not all — there are multiple hearings/meetings set for Wednesday on the Hill, including:
- House Ways and Means, Oversight Subcommittee — Making America the Crypto Capital of the World: Ensuring Digital Asset Policy Built for the 21st Century
- House Homeland Security — “An Inside Job: How NGOs Facilitated the Biden Border Crisis” [This one should be quite interesting]
- House Judiciary, Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee — “Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Exploitation: A New Era of Risk”
- House Transportation and Infrastructure — "Oversight of the Department of Transportation's Policies and Programs and Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request" [Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to testify]
- Senate Judiciary, Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee — Hearings to examine the AI industry's mass ingestion of copyrighted works for AI training
White House What's Up
Late Wednesday morning, President Trump will greet and meet with the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain before having lunch with them. He'll participate in a bill-signing ceremony in the afternoon. Then, in the evening, he'll have dinner with the Prime Minister of the State of Qatar.
Vice President JD Vance, fresh off playing his critical tiebreaker role in the Senate Tuesday evening, will head to West Pittston, Pennsylvania, today to deliver remarks following the successful passage and signing of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. And...we can expect he may have to return to play the tiebreaker this evening on the final rescissions package vote.
Full Court Press...
Missouri should be getting another District Court judge soon.
After 4 long years of Democrats putting radicals on the bench, Republicans are finally appointing Constitutionalist judges under Trump
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 15, 2025
Looking forward to confirming Missouri’s Josh Divine https://t.co/5xBr1IpuA7
And it turns out that there's reportedly a criminal referral for Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) over his alleged mortgage fraud.
READ MORE: Hoo Boy: Schiff Mortgage Story Heats Up Big Time With Report of Criminal Referral
COMING ATTRACTIONS
President Trump will be traveling to the United Kingdom at the end of the month, including a visit to Turnberry and Aberdeen, Scotland. (One suspects he may work in a round of golf while there.)
MORNING MUSING
I suppose it's human nature to never quite be satisfied. We excel at griping when things don't go our way. But then, when they do, we often find a way to gripe about that as well: It's not enough; it's not fast enough; it's not the way I want it to be. Somewhere between settling and expecting the world is a sweet spot where we get much — maybe even most — of what we want; just not all.
I highly suspect that perennial dissatisfaction is heightened by social media/online interactions — particularly the monetization of such. Outrage sells —and fosters bad habits and attitudes. It skews expectations and perspective.
I'm not suggesting that we set the expectation bar too low, but stepping back for a better, fuller perspective sometimes isn't a bad thing. Is this administration everything I'd ever want? Is the OBBB or the rescissions package? No, of course not. But nothing this side of Eternity ever will be.
Anyway, this tweet from David Limbaugh got me to thinking about our tendency to let the perfect be the enemy of the good and the importance of not falling into that trap.
I apologize in advance for tweeting about something other than Epstein but I had a horrifying thought today. I really try not to be a pessimist and I'm not but this nevertheless occurred to me. Whenever Dems win the White House again -- will they open wide the borders again?
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) July 15, 2025
It…
LIGHTER FARE
Well, duh...
He changed his priorities in a seconds 🤣 pic.twitter.com/cGOHhSbfat
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) July 16, 2025
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