This week on The Hill: House aims to move priorities after conservative SAVE America Act rebellion

Could a heatwave make World Cup matches 'unsafe' this week?

Temperatures are expected to soar across parts of the US and Canada this week which could bring significant health impacts to some World Cup matches.

Source of president’s 'Trumper tantrum' in the Senate revealed: conservative

Dispatch writer Nick Catoggio says he knows what probably drove President Donald Trump’s little hissy fit in the Senate earlier this week and his threat to veto a popular housing bill. The bill would have made housing cheaper, for starters. “Americans want cheaper housing, [Trump] wants the SAVE America Act. He didn’t debate for a second whose desire should take precedence, I’m sure,” said Catoggio. “Still, there might be more to his Trumper tantrum over the housing bill than rank spite at not getting his way on election reform. … For all his pretensions to being an avatar of ‘the forgotten man,’ the president remains a Manhattan real estate developer at heart. And real estate developers have been conditioned by their trade to want property to grow more expensive, not less.“Just ask him. ‘I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes,’ Trump admitted in January. Later, in March, the Great Populist assured House Speaker Mike Johnson that ‘no one gives a s—— about housing,’ according to four sources who spoke to Punchbowl News. Some of the president’s infamous quotes about the cost of living have been taken out of context to make him sound more callous (some, not all), but his attitude toward high housing prices is what it is. He doesn’t care. At best.”But the potential electoral consequences for his party don’t seem to be keeping him up at night either, said Catoggio.“He’s not behaving like somebody who cares. Maybe he will start to at some point, but he is not right now,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wondered Thursday about the GOP’s affordability problem after the housing bill went unsigned.“I doubt it,” said Catoggio. “An old guy who’s entered the “YOLO phase” of life is unlikely to revert to worrying about what other people — that is, 150 million American voters — think of him. All told, in Trump we have a president who got elected on populism and popularism yet has functionally renounced both in less than two years in office. He plainly isn’t prioritizing the welfare of the working man and he also plainly no longer worries about making the average voter happy, at least when doing so would conflict with his own whims. Even his decision to strike a terrible deal with Iran for the sake of bringing down gas prices was framed less as a matter of helping Americans than of protecting his own legacy.”But Trump is a weird mishmash of psychology issues, Catoggio said“… [I]t’s always been hard to tell … whether his paranoia about elections is a knowing lie told by a dissembling megalomaniac to discredit a threat to his power or a sincerely held delusion by a fragile egomaniac to reassure himself that the people love him,” Catoggio said. “If you see him mostly as a strongman, you think it’s the first. If you see him mostly as a narcissist, you think it’s the second.”Regardless, Trump knows his bad behavior is sinking his popularity, and he desperately needs to do what he can to upset a natural democratic order that tends to toss out a president who stops caring about what the voters want.“Enjoy ‘Stop the Steal 2.0’ this fall, American voters. You earned it,” Catoggio said.

Trump bashed by conservative Wall Street Journal board for one huge Iran failure

The Wall Street Journal editorial board lambasted President Donald Trump over his efforts to secure a durable peace deal with Iran.U.S. and Iranian officials have agreed to halt their attacks on one another and meet Tuesday to talk out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, and the conservative newspaper's editors bashed the 80-year-old president for failing to keep the crucial waterway open – as it had been before he launched the war on Feb. 28."The best selling point for President Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran was that at least it opened the Strait of Hormuz," the board wrote. "Well, now the regime is trying to nullify those terms by using force against commercial vessels, Gulf states and U.S. bases. All of this violates the deal and calls into question why Mr. Trump signed it."The U.S. and Iran have traded strikes, and Trump has hyped what he called “gentlemen’s agreements” with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders to "turn over a new leaf," but the Journal's editors said the president was wrong to trust them."Well, these are no gentlemen," they wrote. "It’s the same terrorist regime, and this is the Battle of Hormuz that Mr. Trump thought he had ducked. In case there was any doubt, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran is solely responsible for managing the Strait under the memorandum. He said 'no other country has any responsibility in that regard.'""Force is the regime’s means to make the world bend," they added. "Without it, shippers refused to heed Iran’s dictates for Hormuz during the deal’s early days."The editorial board wondered why Trump was willing to give Iran anything without an assurance that the strait would remain free and open."The U.S. needs the leverage for nuclear negotiations, and it was never wise to give Iran a blank check," the board wrote. "All the more so now that the regime isn’t respecting the deal, which mandates a cease-fire as well as Iran’s 'best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels.' That means don’t shoot at them, for starters.""More U.S. 'love taps' against Iranian targets won’t impress the hard men in Tehran," the editors added. "They behave as if they have escalation dominance because they think Mr. Trump won’t return to war before the midterm elections. They don’t believe Mr. Trump’s social-media bluster because they see his reluctance to enforce the cease-fire terms."

Mike Johnson navigates 'minefield' as MAGA lawmaker risks 'paralyzing' House GOP: report

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be forced, again, to navigate a “legislative minefield” this week due to President Donald Trump’s controversial agenda, a challenge that risks leaving the entire chamber “paralyzed for a second week in a row” and sparking a GOP "disaster,” Punchbowl News reported Monday.At the heart of the difficulties facing House Republicans is Trump’s controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, which has passed in the House multiple times but continues to stall in the Senate. House lawmakers are hoping to advance the annual defense spending bill this week before a July 4 recess, but one MAGA lawmaker is threatening to block all floor proceedings unless the SAVE Act is attached to the defense spending bill, an amendment that’s considered a non-starter for Democrats and would almost surely tank the bill.That lawmaker is Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who’s already submitted an amendment to the defense spending bill to attach the SAVE Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, something experts have described as a form of voter suppression.“If Luna’s amendment is ruled out of order, the Florida Republican told us she’ll vote against the rule and continue her blockade on floor action, likely rendering the House paralyzed for a second week in a row,” Punchbowl News’ report reads.“Johnson and top House Republicans are hopeful that Luna will drop her insistence on the language after Trump posted on Truth Social last week that the GOP members should stop messing around with rules votes. It’s true that Luna has close ties to the Florida crew in the White House. But Trump has less sway than ever. And his advice on legislating is oftentimes ignored.”

The Lincoln Speech Every American Should Read Before America 250

How to celebrate America’s 250th birthday on July 4 in NYC

Local parties ranging from the largest naval parade ever to a spectacular performance by the Blue Angels are slated for America's big bash, with countless other events scheduled across all five boroughs, too.

A Hochul fix to NY’s e-bike law — plus Mamdani enforcement — can save lives

Rather than relying on the courts to force Mayor Mamdani to act, though, Gov. Kathy Hochul must step in to protect pedestrians and pedal cyclists. 

‘I have worked too hard’: Trump shreds ‘Communist’ who could destroy America’s capital

'In the end, it will never work out, nor will I let it even have a chance'