The second round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued today. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on June 17. The first round went out on June 10 to those born on or before the 10th of […]
“Donald Trump, I don’t have time for Operation Epic Fury no more," the man said on a social media video. "Now you know I got a live f–king bomb.”
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A group of Democratic US senators warned Monday that congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump could be gearing up for a push for raise the retirement age as part of a broader—and deeply unpopular—effort to slash Social Security benefits after the 2026 midterm elections.Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote in a letter to Trump that they have “renewed concerns” that his administration is “considering raising the retirement age, cutting the earned benefits of millions of Americans,” despite the president’s repeated vows to shield the program.“Republicans have a history of attempting to increase the retirement age, privatize Social Security, or otherwise cut Social Security benefits, and some congressional Republicans have called to raise the retirement age or means-test benefits,” the lawmakers wrote, emphasizing that GOP lawmakers “are not alone.”“In an interview this past fall, [Social Security Administration] Commissioner Frank Bisignano said—and later attempted to retract after public outcry—that your administration was considering this idea,” the Democratic senators wrote of raising the retirement age, which would cut Social Security benefits across the board.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis of a 2024 Republican proposal to raise Social Security’s full retirement age found that doing so would cut benefits by an average of 13% for people born after 1971.The Democratic senators sent their letter to Trump days after Social Security’s trustees said in their annual report that the program will be unable to pay out full benefits by the end of 2032—a quarter earlier than projected last year—unless Congress takes action. The finding was seen as evidence of the damage inflicted by Trump’s policies, including his tariffs and tax cuts for the rich.Ahead of the trustees report’s release, House Speaker Mike Johnson declared that Social Security needs to be “adjusted and fixed” and said Republicans would release their plan “next year,” without specifying what the proposal would entail.In their letter to Trump on Monday, the trio of Democratic senators demanded to know if the president is aware of “Republican plans to cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits” and whether he would veto GOP legislation that slashes those programs.“Raising the retirement age—or otherwise cutting benefits—only worsens the looming retirement income crisis,” the lawmakers wrote. “Doing so hurts older Americans, cutting monthly benefits and forcing millions into poverty.”
NY Post readers discuss the US-Iran deal for 60 days of talks about Iran’s nuclear program and terror funding.
Speaking with MS NOW host Katy Tur on Tuesday, a former Republican governor who used to frequently interact with President Donald Trump expressed surprise at how far Trump has deteriorated after seeing footage of a more vibrant Trump a decade ago.“The video you showed of Trump in 2015 worked,” former Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina told Tur. He was referring to a campaign speech in which Trump denounced Washington for being full of insiders and corruption. “It worked with me. I was governor at the time of the ninth largest state in the United States. That is not the same President Trump — where, at that time, he became President-elect Trump. His voice has changed dramatically, and I think he has lost some touch with the American people.”McCrory is not the only one to notice a change in Trump’s voice. Speaking to AlterNet in May about a letter signed by three dozen health experts to Congress, psychiatrist Dr. Henry Abraham (formerly of Tufts University) said that “there has been a frightening progression of symptoms. These include grandiosity without moral safeguards, paranoia, impulsivity, vindictiveness, easy misperception of being harmed, moments of omnipotence, uncontrolled rage, and sole control over the use of nuclear weapons in a time of war.”He added, “As a psychiatrist reviewing these, I can only say Yikes!”The North Carolina politician also criticized his fellow Republican for allowing big money to influence his policies. Prior to doing so, Tur had discussed how American taxpayers were always expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on his planned White House ballroom, even though he previously claimed it would be entirely funded privately. Most Americans oppose the ballroom, Tur added, and Trump has not helped his image of being in the pocket of the wealthy by holding a Great Gatsby-themed party after repealing health care subsidies and recently visiting the opulent palace at Versailles, where the French Revolution occurred.McCrory said that in 2022 he ‘realized both parties were bought and paid for by the crypto industry. They were taking money from anyone to pay for super PACs to get on TV, to get the majority of the Senate. That's all they cared about — power, both parties. And it's escalated even more since then. We're not Versailles. I don't think the American people wanted to be Versailles. Neither did Ben Franklin. Neither did John Adams.”When it comes to Trump’s ballroom, the story of its dishonest origins was broken on Tuesday by Washington Post reporters Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell. They found that the estimated "total construction cost" of the ballroom is "$600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers.""By the time Trump made his comments in March, the federal government had already approved more than a dozen payments to the contractor overseeing the work, Clark Construction, totaling tens of millions of dollars in public funds, according to a log of the contractor's invoices obtained by The Post,” Blaskey and O’Connell wrote. “Since first announcing the East Wing project last July, Trump has repeatedly said that the price tag would not exceed $400 million and that private donations routed through a nonprofit would cover its entire cost."They added, "At other times, he has said that the Secret Service and the military would contribute security enhancements, without elaborating on the price of those upgrades. Multiple project summaries provided to the White House by Clark Construction show that internal cost estimates have been significantly higher than administration officials have acknowledged in public comments or court filings. They also show that the work was projected to rely heavily on taxpayer dollars from the moment it was announced." - YouTube youtu.be
Nigel Farage privately vowed to overhaul the team that manages his Facebook account because they were under-performing Rupert Lowe, the leader of a rival right-wing party who boasts a huge following on social media.
Voters are casting their ballots in three states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, including the runoff race in Georgia to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff.
President Donald Trump threw one of his top administration officials under the bus this week, per The Daily Beast, making claims in a post to Truth Social that directly conflicted with an interview they gave about the recent peace deal with Iran.As The Daily Beast noted in a report from Tuesday, Trump took to Truth Social on Monday night with a post attempting to shoot down recent claims about how much money Iran will be getting as part of the deal to suspend hostilities with the U.S. for 60 days, some of which have gone down poorly with members of the GOP."Iran has agreed to never have a Nuclear Weapon! Also, the story that the U.S. is paying Iran 300 million Dollars is Fake News, put out by the Dumocrats!!!" the post read."The president was seemingly referring to reports that the memorandum of understanding electronically signed by both him and his veep on Monday contained a clause requiring the U.S. to pay Iran $300 billion—not $300 million—for reconstruction efforts," the outlet's report said.This post from Trump, The Daily Beast explained further, "directly conflicts with what Vice President JD Vance said about the agreement’s terms earlier in the day." Vance was interviewed about the deal by CBS News' Ed O’Keefe on Monday morning, asking the vice president whether it was "true or false" that Iran would be getting money for reconstruction efforts."Well, Ed, that’s the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf Coast Coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation,” Vance responded.He continued: “I think that one of the things you’re going to see, Ed — and people have to be skeptical of this — is that the hard-liners in the Iranian system will overemphasize the benefits that Iran gets, while underemphasizing all the things that they have to concede, and all the things they have to provide, in order to get these benefits"Not long after Trump's Truth Social post, Vance shared a video to social media attempting "to clarify the details of the deal," but did not touch on any details regarding the reconstruction money."Number one: What this deal is that the Straits of Hormuz are open immediately," Vance said in the video. "Number two: it ensures that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Now this deal really has two pathways: on the one hand, if the Iranians make the long-term commitments never to rebuild, then they’re gonna be welcomed into the world economy. If, on the other hand, they try to rebuild that nuclear program, they’re never gonna have the resources in order to do so.”