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Monday, June 30th, 2025 Today, Republicans advance the Billionaire Bailout Bill in the Senate after promising hold-outs they could gut a provision of the Affordable Care Act as Tommy Tuberville calls for the parliamentarian to be fired; the Supreme Court kills the lower court’s ability to issue universal injunctions AND allows parents to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books; Donald Trump threatens to withhold payments to Israel unless their courts drop the charges against Bibi Netanyahu; Cuomo will stay in the New York City mayoral race after conceding to Zohran Mamdani; Don Bacon of Nebraska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina say they will not run in 2026; the President of the University of Virginia has resigned because of pressure from the Trump administration; Republicans in the Senate have blocked the Iran war powers resolution; the Trump administration has freed a three time felon and five time deported migrant in exchange for his testimony against Kilmar Abrego; Governor Gavin N...
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MSW Media hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, June 30, 2025. Today, Republicans advanced the billionaire bailout bill in the Senate after promising holdouts they could gut a provision of the Affordable Care act as Tommy Tuberville calls for the parliamentarian to be fired. The Supreme Court kills the lower court's ability to issue universal injunctions and allows parents to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books. Donald Trump threatens to withhold payments to Israel unless their courts drop the charges against Bibi Netanyahu. Cuomo will stay in the New York City mayoral race after conceding to Zoran Mandani. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina say they will not run in 2026. The President of the University of Virginia has resigned because of pressure from the Trump administration. Republicans in the Senate have blocked the Iran War Powers Resolution. The Trump administration has freed a three time felon and five time deported migrant in exchange for his testimony against Kilmar Abrego. Governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million for defamation. And over 100,000 people marched in a Budapest pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey everybody, happy Monday. Dana is out as we talked about on Friday. She will be back, I promise, in solidarity. Please watch and share her final gay of the day video today across social media. She's DG comedy, especially over at Instagram. I've learned so much this month thanks to her. So please check that out. It's an incredible series. Today I'll be talking to one of the Democratic candidates running in the primary to eventually challenge Republican Corey mills in Florida's 7th district. We'll be interviewing all the dumb candidates in that primary. And today we have the first of three, Noah Widman. So you'll definitely want to stick around for the Flip It Blue segment. There is a lot going on in the news, everybody. So first we have some quick hits. And to make a long story short, all right, I'm gonna Rachel MADDOW you. So 52 years ago this week, John Dean wrapped up four days of congressional testimony that blew open the Watergate scandal that implicated Nixon and his administration of a cover up of epic proportions. As we know now, here we are 52 years later with an epic 27 page whistleblower letter from a former Department of Justice official named Erez Reveni, laying out in detail how the Trump administration plotted to lie to the courts and and cover it up in three major cases concerning the often unlawful mass deportation effort spearheaded by White House advisor Stephen Miller. So if you've been listening to the Unjustified podcast, especially this past week where Andy McCabe and I released the full audio version of the whistleblower letter and covered the latest in the Abrego and South Sudan cases on the new episode that's just came out yesterday, you've been listening. You'd know that Annie McCabe and I have been jaws on the floor over the fact that the Trump administration had been alleged to have offered asylum and freedom to a five time deported felon serving 30 months in prison, all in exchange for testimony against Mr. Abrego, a zero time felon with no criminal record who actually has an order from a United States judge to not be deported to El Salvador. And all of this was in an effort to to end that very pesky discovery process into their corruption all over a deportation error, by the way, which they admitted to in court or as Reveni did, the whistleblower, and that could have been corrected by simply returning Mr. Abrego to the United States to continue his immigration hearings. Well, this weekend, Andy, and my suspicions have been confirmed. The Washington Post says in its lead, the Trump administration has agreed to release from prison a three time felon who drunkenly fired shots in a Texas community and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. That's according to a review of court records and official testimony. Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, 38 year old, had been convicted of smuggling migrants and illegally re entering the United States after having been deported multiple times. He also pled guilty to deadly conduct in the Texas incident and is now the government's star witness against Abrego. Hernandez is among a handful of cooperating witnesses who could help the Trump administration achieve its goal of never letting Abrego walk free in the United States again. In exchange, he has already been released early from a federal prison to a halfway house and and has been given permission to stay in the United States for at least a year, quote, otherwise he would be deported. That's what Peter Joseph, a Homeland Security investigation special agent, said and that's what he testified to at the Abrego criminal hearing on June 13. The government is also likely to give him a work permit, the agent told the court. Now, as you will hear Andy and I talk about on the Unjustified podcast, that's not how cooperation deals work. If you agree to cooperate with the government in a case. And by the way, usually it's the little fish that are cooperating to roll up the big fish, not the other way around. This guy that they're letting out and to live in the United States and give asylum for a year or two and a work permit, let him out of his 30 month prison sentence early. That guy is a bigger fish in this operation than Mr. Abrego. You usually get Mr. Abrego to cooperate to get that guy in prison. Now they're trying to use that guy to get Mr. Abrego put in prison. Number two. You don't just promise stuff and give it to people. You don't just say, hey, we'll get you out of jail now. We'll give you asylum. We will keep ICE off your tail. We'll keep the DHS out of your house. We'll give you a work permit. That's not how it works. You say, please tell us what you know, give us your queen for the day interview, give us your proffer, and if you substantially help us convict the people higher up on the food chain than you, then what we will do is write a letter to the judge asking them for leniency or whatever the court deems fit to say. This person substantially helped us. So you decide, Judge. That's normally how this goes. This guy's already been released to a halfway house, already been promised a year, at least in the country, and a work permit. So you definitely want to check out the latest Unjustified podcast. It's free wherever you get them. Also, the Associated Press has reported that Senate Republicans voting in a dramatic late Saturday session, narrowly cleared a key procedural step as they raced to advance Trump's billionaire bailout bill. That's me, not them. They call it a package of tax breaks, spending cuts, and bolstered deportation funds by the July 4 deadline. That's what they're trying for. The tally, 51 to 49, came after a tumultuous night with J.D. vance at the Capitol to break a potential tie. They didn't need him. Tense scenes played out in the chamber as voting came to a standstill, dragging on for more than three hours as holdout senators huddled for negotiations and took private meetings off the floor. In the end, two Republicans opposed the motion to proceed, joining all Democrats, and the other holdouts changed their votes or voted yes. Four holdouts were threatening to kill the bill. Mike Lee, Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and Lisa Murkowski. Now, after several scrums and meetings, Murkowski caved and voted yes. Johnson switched from a no to a yes, and Lee and Scott voted yes in exchange for Senate leadership to back Rick Scott's amendment that would phase out 90% Medicaid matches for expansion populations. That's Medicaid expansion. Gutting a key provision of the Affordable Care act. Taking away Medicaid expansion from the states and putting that cost onto the states. That that's what they got in exchange. Gutting a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. It doesn't hurt enough people, they said. Now Murkowski, she caved after getting an exemption from some of the bill's cuts for Alaskans. Meanwhile fucking the rest of us. According to the new language, some of the SNAP benefit cuts would not apply to non contiguous states. Same with Medicaid. The New York Times says a provision that would boost the amount of the federal government pays Alaska for its Medicaid programs refers to the state with the highest separate poverty guideline. The that's Alaska. The food aid provision applies to non contiguous states. That's Alaska and Hawaii. But get this. Just hours after Murkowski sold her soul, those two provisions, tailored specifically to boost Medicaid payments to Alaska and Hawaii, have been ruled to violate the Byrd rule, the Senate's Bird rule that limits what can pass through the reconciliation process with a simple majority. Politico reports that elsewhere, Senate Republicans attempted to expand Medicare drug price negotiation exemptions for orphan drugs to include medicines that treat multiple rare diseases, but the parliamentarian ruled that is not in compliance with the rules and could threaten the ability to pass the MEGA bill with a simple majority. The orphan drug provision was in the House passed bill, but it was not included in the first Senate Finance Committee's proposal. Earlier this month, the parliamentarian also ruled against provisions that sought to block the implementation of two by Biden era regulations that seek to make it easier for older adults and individuals with disabilities to enroll in Medicaid and maintain coverage. Yes, the Republicans want to make it harder for older adults and people with disabilities to enroll in Medicaid and maintain coverage. Also flagged by the parliamentarian a provision that would prohibit implementation of a Biden Administration rule on nursing facility staffing, which was estimated to reduce federal Medicaid spending by $23 billion over 10 years. Now, still under review by the parliamentarian is a provision that would bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid funds. We'll let you know how that turns out. But yeah, Murkowski sold out the rest of the United States. And then the parliamentarian said, you can't even have that in there now. Meanwhile, as the parliamentarian keeps chipping away at provisions that violate the Byrd rule That, by the way, is the rule that says a provision has to be related to the budget to be part of a budget reconciliation bill. The Hill is reporting that Tommy Tuberville on Thursday called for John Thune to fire the parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough ASAP, hours after she delivered a major ruling against a Republican proposal to slash hundreds of billions of dollars in federal Medicaid spending to help pay for Trump's tax agenda. The parliamentarian also ruled against provisions to prohibit federal funding of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program for adults or kids whose immigration status cannot be immediately verified, and to lower federal Medicaid funding for states that provide Medicaid coverage to immigrants in the country illegally. Quote the WOKE Senate parliamentarian who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore just struck down a provision banning illegals from stealing Medicaid from American citizens. They pay into it. This is a perfect example of why Americans hate the swamp. That's what Tuberville posted on social media platform Twitter. Unelected bureaucrats think they know better than a U.S. congressman who are elected by the people. The parliamentarian's job is not to push a WOKE agenda. The Senate parliamentarian should be fired asap. Now, of course Tuberville knows, or maybe he doesn't, that the parliamentarian doesn't have a WOKE agenda. She has a rules agenda. It's not about policy. It's about whether it can be put in a budget reconciliation bill or whether it would have to have to face the filibuster and get 60 votes. The parliamentarian pulled out minimum wage increases when Democrats wanted to put it in a bill. Now, I mean, Tommy, if you want to nuke the filibuster, please be my fucking guest, fella. Coach. Do it. Go on. Nuke the filibuster. And while we're at it, let's start planning for all the shit we can get done now that the Supreme Court has gutted the lower court's ability to issue universal injunctions like a lower court did when Republicans sued Biden for student debt relief. You want to consolidate power for yourselves at the tippy top of the court? Fine. Sauce for the goose. Let's ban assault weapons via executive order. Let's forgive all student debt via executive order. Let's remove barriers to abortion and mifeprestone without the lower courts being able to block it for everyone. Make these assholes file their individual class action suits and see if they can get this Supreme Court to approve them after this Supreme Court spent the past two decades trying to make it harder to file a class action lawsuit. Now this past Friday, in case you hadn't heard, the high court ruled in the birthright citizenship case that the lower courts can no longer issue universal injunctions nationwide injunctions except in very rare circumstances, effectively kneecapping the lower courts and saving all that delicious power for themselves. Immediately the defendants and the birthright citizenship case filed a class action lawsuit, which would be the way around this. But the thing is, the nationwide injunctions became the workaround when the Supreme Court made it supremely difficult to get a class certified for a class action. And this weekend, John Roberts had the fucking gall to stand up in front of a judicial conference and say without a hint of self awareness that he was surprised by the pileup of cases at the end of his term. As I wrote@muellershirote.com, i said, quoting John Roberts, quote, things were a little crunched toward the end of this year. We'll try to space it out a little better next year. A pile up, you say? Things were a tad crunched. Now why do you suppose that is, John? Could it be that your actions granting presidents immunity and crowning them kings, postponing if not outright canceling two trials, allowing a dictator to be installed who is so fucking lawless that hundreds of his executive orders are being challenged in court and how maybe that might cause a little bit of a logjam? Had you thought about that? Had you thought about your role and why you're a little crunched at the end of this term, I suppose next term we will be forced to endure incessant John Roberts pearl clutching about the increase in class action lawsuits. And that will now have to be brought in light of the Supreme Court limiting the use of universal injunctions, thereby consolidating power with themselves. Oh, I never, I never thought this could happen to me, he'll say as a woman bleeds out in a hospital parking lot after losing her Medicaid and being turned away for religious reasons from the Joel Olsteen Osteen, whatever that guy's name is, regional hospital, that health net funded to replace the rural hospital that was forced to close under the billionaire bailout bill. Is that what we're going to be subject to? Poor John Roberts. This is your bed, John Roberts. You lie in it. I just wish the rest of us didn't have to. That is what I wrote on Substack. You can go check it out. It's free military wrote dot com. The Supreme Court Friday also bolstered religious rights as it ruled in favor of Parents who objected to LGBTQ themed books that a Maryland county approved for use in elementary school classrooms. In a 6 to 3 vote, the court backed the parents claims that the Montgomery County Board of Education's decision not to allow an opt out option for their children violated their religious freedom rights under the Constitution's First Amendment, which protects religious expression. There's something else the next Democratic president can do. Issue an executive order barring all religion from publicly funded classrooms. Make those assholes pretzel themselves into class action lawsuits now that the courts can no longer block something like that nationwide. Incidentally, there's a really great interview with Adam Klassfeld on All Rise News with the author of the book at issue that kicked all of this off, who says that the 6 either didn't read her book or totally misunderstood it. Give that a listen if you have some time. And seriously, I think I said this on somebody's show I appeared on recently. We should start a religion called Democracy, the Church of Democracy. And anyone anywhere that tries to shit all over democracy will have to be stopped by the Supreme Court for infringing on our freedom of religious expression. No, the government can't show up and snatch our neighbors off the street and disappear them to third countries. That's against our religion, the Church of Democracy. I swear to God, sometimes I'm only half kidding about that. Electoral College. Sorry. That shit's on the Church of Democracy. Get rid of it. Student debt? Nope. Against my religion. Blocking healthcare and reproductive rights. Sorry. That's against the Reconstruction Amendments, which is part of our Church of Democracy's religious texts. And we wouldn't have to pay taxes. I'm telling you, the Church of Democracy. Let's do it. All right, we have more news to get to, but we have to take a quick break because there's so much to cover today. Please stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody. 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The Jerusalem District Court has canceled this week's hearings in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long running corruption trial, accepting a request the Israeli leader made citing classified diplomatic and security grounds. It was unclear whether a social media post by Donald Trump influenced the court's decision. Trump suggested the trial could interfere with Netanyahu's ability to join negotiations with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran. Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, all of which he denies. He has cast the trial against him as an orchestrated left wing witch hunt meant to topple a democratically elected right wing leader. Makes me think, you know, if everybody was like, oh, if we had only gotten his conviction or his, you know, indictment in, in time or whatever for the election. Trump is now again, like Bibi, indicted, except his is somehow going forward and has to be stopped. Ours is completely off the table. Ugh. Anyway, on Friday, the court rejected a request by Netanyahu to delay his testimony for the next two weeks because of a diplomatic and security matter following the 12 day conflict. I'm not calling it that between Israel and Iran, which ended last Tuesday. Has it he was due to take the stand on Monday for cross examination. Quote, it is insanity doing what the out of control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu. That's what Trump said on Truth Social. He said Washington, having given billions of dollars worth of aid to Israel, was not going to stand for this. A spokesperson for the Israeli prosecution declined to comment on Trump's post. Netanyahu retweeted Trump's post and added, thank you again. Together, we will make the Middle east great again. Now, I realize that over a hundred Democrats in the House voted to table Representative Al Green's impeachment resolution for bombing Iran without congressional approval. And one of the reasons I've heard is that it's just too gray an area, given the president's broad war powers as the commander in chief. But this, this is exactly what you impeached him for in his first term, withholding congressionally appropriated funds to another country in exchange for a political favor. So if you're listening, please, can we see an article of impeachment Now, I know you won't win. I know we can't impeach him because we don't have the votes in the House. Or at least tell people we're going to do this if we flip the House. Tell people this is what you want to do. Again, I know we can't do it right now. That's kind of the point. Step in the ring, take a punch. Next up from the Hill, the Senate blocked an effort Friday to prevent Trump from taking future military action against Iran without authorization from Congress. Less than a week after he directed very kind of weak, impotent strikes aimed at the country's nuclear capabilities. I added that part. Senators voted 53 to 47, largely along party lines against the War Powers Resolution. Rand Paul was the lone GOP lawmaker to vote with Democrats, but I guess we traded him for John Fetterman, who voted with Republicans. 51 votes were needed. The resolution was authored by Senator Tim Kaine, who has long been a supporter of Congress asserting itself to greenlight authorizations of war. Me too, Tim. Me too. Senator, quote, I think the events of this week have demonstrated that war is too big to be consigned to the decisions of any one person. That's what Cain said on the floor, being a little nicer than I would about Donald Trump. The vote came after days of complaints from Democrats on the Iran issue. So credit where credit is due. The Democrats tried. They put it up for a vote. They lost. Well, except for Fetterman. And Democrats knew they would lose. But they weren't afraid to step into the ring and walk out with that black eye. Democrats have also questioned the veracity of Trump's claim that the Iranian nuclear sites that were targeted were completely destroyed. That was especially the case after a preliminary classified report indicated that the strikes did not destroy core components of the Iran nuclear program and likely only set it back by a matter of months. Lindsey Graham on the Sunday shows was asked by, I think Jonathan Karl about the uranium. Uranium? What about the uranium? Uranium? That's hard to say. It sounds like something in an Eminem song, by the way. And he was like, oh yeah, we didn't get that. So that's, I guess, something that Lindsey Graham at least is admitting. They weren't completely obliterated, by the way. There's now reports that there are discussions, tapes of Iranian officials talking to each other after the attack, saying that they were surprised that it did so little damage. Now, those questions were still unanswered after top administration officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe. I hate saying that. And Joint Chief Chair Dan Kane, held a classified briefing for members on Thursday. And we talked about that on the Friday's Beans now next from cnn, Andrew Cuomo is not going to drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot. That leaves in place contingency plans he had established before the Democratic primary to challenge Zoran Mamdani and the incumbent, Mayor Eric Adams, in November. The former New York governor, who quickly conceded the Democratic primary race on Tuesday night to Mamdani, is not fully committed to running an active campaign through the summer and fall. But who needs that when you've got tens of millions of dollars in Bloomberg money? But Cuomo will keep the place he already secured on the Fight and Deliver ballot line for the November election. That's according to sources, Cuomo is calculating that the full cities electorate will be significantly different from Democratic primary voters who were energized by Mamdani's focus on affordability than his campaign online videos. Cuomo's camp also believes Mamdani and his policy ideas from a rent freeze to city operated grocery stores, will receive increased scrutiny now that Mamdani is positioned to secure a Democratic primary win once the ranked choice votes are all collected next week. That's this week. Notably, New York Governor Kathy Hochul as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have all praised Mamdani since Tuesday but have declined to endorse him. And two House Democrats from swing districts in the New York suburbs criticized him after Tuesday's results put him in a position to win the primary, while Republicans have sharply criticized Mamdani and tried to tie national Democrats to him. Now Mamdani is poised to face Adams, who opted out of this year's Democratic primaries running as an independent. And he will also face Republican Curtis Silwa, who I learned this week has 16 cats. Okay, just throwing that out there. Also from the Post, Don Bacon, a vocal critic of Trump on a range of issues, including January 6, will not seek reelection. That's according to a person familiar with his plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. His purple district is seen as a battleground, making the decision welcome news for Democrats as they attempt to retake the House in next year's midterms. The news of Bacon's plans was first reported by Punchbowl News and Notus N O T U S Nebraska's 2nd district, which includes Omaha, has voted for Bacon since 2016, but went for Kamala Harris in last year's presidential election and Joe Biden in 2020. Last month, Omaha voters elected a Democratic mayor in John Ewing Jr. As we know, the city's first black mayor who defeated three term Republican Gene Stothert. Am I saying that right? We celebrated that win here on the Beans when it happened. And from cbs, Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Saturday that he will not seek reelection in 2026. That was hours after Trump threatened to back a primary challenge against him when he refused to support the massive spending tax bill. We call it the billionaire bailout bill. Tillis and Paul were the only two no votes on that. Like I said a little bit earlier, quote, it's not a hard choice and I will not be seeking re election. That's what Tillis said in a statement Sunday. He noted that he hasn't, quote, been excited about running for another term, citing the choice between spending another six years navigating the political theater and partisan gridlock in Washington or spending time with his family. And from the Associated Press, the president of the University of Virginia, facing heavy pressure from conservative critics and the Trump administration over the school's diversity, equity and inclusion practices, announced Friday he was resigning rather than fighting the federal government. The departure of James Ryan, who had led the school since 2018, represents a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's effort to reshape higher education or kill it altogether. Right? Doing it at a public university marks a new frontier in a campaign that has almost exclusively targeted Ivy League schools. It also widens the rationale behind the government's aggressive tactics focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion rather than alleged tolerance of antisemitism. Also from the Associated Press California governor Gavin Newsom sued Fox News on Friday over defamation, saying the network knowingly aired false information about a phone call he had with President Trump around the time the National Guard was sent to Los Angeles. The lawsuit alleges Fox News anchor Jesse Waters edited out key information from a clip of Trump talking about calling Newsom, then used the edited video to assert that Newsom had lied about the two talking. Newsom is asking for $787 million in punitive damages in the lawsuit filed in Delaware, where Fox is incorporated, which is the exact same amount Fox had to pay Dominion Voting in a last minute courthouse step settlement. Pretty epic troll. Now you know how I feel about Newsom, but his social media staff have been killing it lately and this is great. A little Hope for Men Princess Close to 200,000 people defied the government ban and police orders on Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ pride event in Hungary's history, in an open rebuke of Viktor Orban's government. Viktor Orban is the Trump. He's a Trump guy. Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed in March by Orban's right wing populist government party. The march began at Budapest City hall and wound through the city center before crossing the capital's Erzabet Bridge. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, over the Danube. Police diverted the crowd from its planned route to keep it separated from a small group of far right counter protesters, while members of Hungary's LGBTQ community and large numbers of supporters danced to music and waved rainbow and anti government flags. Oh my heart. The massive size of the march, which the government for months had insisted would no longer be permitted in Hungary, was seen as a major blow to Orban's prestige as the European Union's longest serving leader's popularity slumps in the polls where a new opposition force has taken the lead over him. I'm excited for Hungary. That's what people power can do, y' all. All right, time for some good trouble. What are you guys doing all right today? I want to thank y' all for your comments to the national park's snitch line. This story comes from SF Gate. This is the latest in our victories here, at least the fourth time Yalls Good Trouble has made a big enough impact to make the news. The Department of the Interior's efforts to revise unfavorable stories about American history at National Park Service sites appears to be backfiring. Instead of reporting incidents of negative history as directed by the new sign, visitors have used the sign's QR codes to submit hundreds of comments in support of the Park Service. In a 65 page leaked document provided to SFGATE by the National Parks Conservation association, the hundreds of comments that have poured in through June 16th show overwhelming support for better funding for national parks and increased protection of public lands. There's also some other very creative things that came in. Quote this felonious administration is the very definition of un American. The parks belong to us, the people. Respectfully, go fuck your yourselves. That's one comment that has been reported through multiple parks and is directed to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Quote, rangers have a lovely day. You are appreciated. That was how the comment ended. Quote, this park is perfect. Please tell Trump to go himself. That's another comment posted through the Kaniwa National Historical park in Michigan. At the Stonewall National Monument in New York, where the Interior Department came under fire for removing mentions of transgender people from Stonewall, visitors have left several comments bashing the new initiative. Quote, I've noticed there aren't nearly enough signs about how a tyrannical government is trying to whitewash history. That's one comment. Quote, Taking the T and the Q out of the way, the park tells the history of Stonewall is inaccurate and incomplete. Fix this. That's another one. Many Park Service sites receive comments about the need to increase the visibility of indigenous cultures, including Rocky Mountain National Park Pinnacles and National park of America, Samoa and many others. Quote the national parks as the Department of the Interior states belong to Americans, all Americans. This means sharing the history, experiences and stories of all the people who've called the United States home, even if it's perceived as dark or negative. That's one comment left. @ Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan, the signs should incorporate truthful history whether it's positive or not. So well done, Luminati. I love you. Your good trouble today has to do with Florida's plans to build that concentration camp in the Everglades. And it comes from alt National Parks Help us cause some good trouble by doing a virtual Facebook check in at Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport today. The more people check in, the harder it is for surveillance tools to track who's actually there. It's a simple but maybe powerful way to show up and support from a distance. So go to Facebook if you're on, create a post tap, check in and search for Dade Collier, C O L L I E R Training and Transition Airport. It'll pop right up. Let's jam the system and flood the feed. Let them know we're watching and let them know we care. All right everybody, we'll be right back with the Flip It Blue segment. We're kicking up kicking off 2026 season already. I'm going to speak with one of the Dem candidates running to flip Corey mills seat in Florida's 7th district in the coming weeks. We'll be talking to all the Dems running for that seat today. We're going to start with Noah Widman, so stick around. We'll be right back. Hey everybody, it's ag. You know what doesn't belong in your epic summer plans? A sky high wireless bill. While you're planning barbecues, beach days and long weekends, your phone bill should be the last thing holding you back. And I want to thank Mint Mobile, our new sponsor, for supporting this episode. Get this new customer offer and your three month unlimited wireless plan for just $15 a month at mintmobile.com dailybeans Mint Mobile is the best way to stay connected this season. 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Get this new customer offer and you'll get 3 months unlimited wireless just for $15 a month at mintmobile.com dailybeans that's mintmobile.com dailybeans upfront payment of $45 required, equivalent to $15 a month limited time new customer offer for first 3 months only. Speeds may slow above 35 gigabytes on unlimited plan. Taxes and fees are extra. See Mint Mobile for details. Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It's time to Flip it blue. And joining us today to flip it Blue is a Dem candidate running to represent Florida's 7th district. And this candidate was raised by a single disabled mom. And thanks to coaches, teachers and government programs like snap, food stamps and housing assistance, Noah was able to graduate from high school and became one of the first in his family to attend college. Noah became a father himself as a teenager and he supported his family by flipping burgers and bagging groceries. But he wanted to contribute more. He became an EMT with Marion County Fire Rescue. He worked night shifts while he continued his education at community college. He's now a lawyer fighting for people to get benefits they've earned and have worked for their entire lives. Please welcome Democratic candidate for Florida 7th district, Noah Widman. Hi, Noah, how are you today?
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Noah Widman
Doing well. It's great to be here.
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Alison Gill
It's great to meet you. And I wanted to talk to you today because we are working to flip Florida's seventh blue. Let's talk a little bit first about who is sitting in that seat right now.
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Noah Widman
Yeah. So the current incumbent is Republican Corey Mills. He has been in office since 2022. And he is an international arms dealer. You heard that right. He's being investigated now for many things, but among that list is for selling weapons to other countries and not disclosing exactly he's selling weapons to. He's also being investigated for an alleged domestic violence case against a woman half his age who is not his wife. And he's also being investigated for some serious accusations related to a medal he had applied to where people he had served with in the military or claiming that his story does not add up. That's still underway. And on the 10 year anniversary of the Obergefell ruling, he came out in opposition to marriage equality. So that's who I'm running against in this R&5 suburban swing district at Florida.
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Alison Gill
And let's start with that because we know, we know as Democrats that it's not just about how awful and horrible and corrupt the person you're running against is, but it's about what your policies and your platform is about. And let's talk about Corey Mills coming out against Obergefell because we know given some of the Supreme Court's recent decisions that Obergefell could be on the chopping block pretty soon. And we have to flip the house and get some seats in order to prevent that from happening or at least to help stop that from happening. So talk about your position on Obergefell and the LGBTQ community.
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Noah Widman
Absolutely. You know, it's. It's the easiest question because, frankly, I'm here to make sure that we protect marriage equality. While Representative Mills is stuck in the past, I'm thinking about the present and future, and I'm going to vote to make sure that we protect and enshrine marriage equality. I think that it's something that needed to be done a long time ago, and I'm excited to support all of my neighbors.
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Alison Gill
I thank you so much for that. I do appreciate that. We've got to keep the T in lgbtq, we've got to keep the Q in lgbtq, and we have to really, really stand up for marriage equality because it's going to be in a lot of danger. Let's shift a little bit to jobs and the economy because, you know, I want to start with your background and how you grew up and everything that government, you know, the benefits that we've paid into our entire life, how it helped you and your family and your mom. And I think that that's a really important starting point because I think it speaks to so many of the constituents in Florida's 7th district and how Corey Mills is the opposite of that, and, you know, he's pro tax breaks for billionaires and corporate welfare and corruption and all of these things. So let's talk. Let's talk about your platform on jobs in the economy and how your personal upbringing really lends to where you stand on these issues.
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Noah Widman
Yeah. So some of the biggest issues facing my constituents, my neighbors, who I'm hoping to be my constituents, it deals directly with the economy. Right. My sister's a small business owner. She has her own hair salon in Castlebury, and these tariffs are crushing her. I think step one is going to be Congress acting as the co equal branch of government that it is, and what we're going to do, and we can do it, frankly. January 3, 2027. We can rein in these tariffs and stop the squeeze on our jobs, on our small businesses, on our everyday American citizens. I think it's squeezing people and so on jobs, we need to make sure that these tariffs aren't putting businesses out. We need to make sure that the middle class actually has an opportunity to make it. From my own personal background, I was able to work hard. I was able to get from point A to point B and give my daughter a better life, not just because of the vital programs we need to protect that affect our children, our parents and grandparents, our veterans, but also to make sure that there just is broad opportunity and what's happening right now with higher and higher prices and more and more job losses. It's making that harder for folks right here at home.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, I agree with you. Let's now talk a little bit about. I'm sorry for all these, like, hard turns, but I wanted to get to all of your policy priorities in this short time that we have together. I want to talk a lot about anti corruption because, you know, as you know, we put a lot of laws on the books after Watergate, post Watergate, many of which have, you know, some of people in Congress right now, including Corey Mills, have found giant loopholes that they can jump through to continue their corruption. What are some of the anti corruption policies that you're working on to kind of course, correct. Where we've gone as a nation, particularly with this administration and the Republicans in this Congress.
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Noah Widman
Yeah. My opponent, Corey Mills, is one of the richest members of Congress. He's worth more than $24 million. And he serves on relevant committees that deal with the business that he runs. Right. He's an international arms dealer. He's on armed services. He's on these committees that are directly related to the corrupt deal that he's doing. I think that's a big part of why he's hiding with his tail between his legs is because he knows what he's doing is wrong. So we need to ban stock trading, insider stock trading. I think that that's a huge issue no matter what party people are in. But I also think that we need to make sure that members of Congress are not enriching themselves on the work that they're doing on their committees. And that's what Corey Mills appears to be doing. You know, and we also need to make sure that Citizens United, we need to work to undo that. It's. It's ruined our politics. It's completely upended the idea of one person, one vote and the democracy that we know and love. We have to make sure that somebody can't come in as a corporation or as a multibillionaire and completely influence and change the results of an election. I think that a member of Congress should serve her or his constituents. I think that a congressional seat belongs to the people in that district. And I don't think somebody like Corey Mills, who's using potentially his office here to enrich himself. I just don't think that that is what we need. And frankly, that's happening all across the country.
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Alison Gill
Yeah. And we also see it with not just enriching themselves, you know, on the back of their own hatred and bigotry, but that they want to enrich their donors, the donor class, that dark money that pours millions of dollars into these packs in order to keep themselves and their, you know, lap dogs in power. It's extremely frustrating to watch. And so I think that anti corruption measures like trying to overturn Citizens United are going to be very, very huge in the coming years as well. As, you know, the Supreme Court just ruled that lower courts can no longer issue nationwide injunctions. Great. So then when we get a Democrat back in the White House, let's start issuing executive orders that can't be blocked nationwide. We know, for example, that a lower court issued a nationwide injunction on forgiving student debt when Joe Biden did that. So, you know, let's. If they can't do that anymore, let's do that again. What sorts of things are you looking maybe toward backing some of those kinds of measures now that the lower courts can't issue nationwide injunctions against them?
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Noah Widman
I think what we need to do is make sure that Article 1 and Article 3 of the Constitution matter again and are real. I think that you saw a lot of cases when President Biden was in office last term that Judge Katz Marik out in Amarillo, Texas, could put nationwide injunctions on a variety of policies. And I think there's a lot of arguments on whether or not that's the best way for the judiciary to act. But I think what we're seeing is a loss of separation of powers now where under Article 2 there's this gross misinterpretation by people like the ones in power now who want to see an executive act more as a king than as somebody with checks by Congress or by the court. So, you know, I think there's a lot of measures Congress can do. Congress has jurisdiction over the courts when it comes to legislating, you know, the size and the scope and what cases can be taken. We need to make sure that we reinvigorate the separation of powers. And it doesn't just start with the courts or end with the courts. I think it also comes right down to legislation, hirings and firings of our public servants that make sure that, you know, the roads are safe to making sure our veterans get the healthcare that they need and more. We need to make sure that it's not just a rogue executive making these decisions on a whim, but that there's actually proper process under our Constitution.
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Alison Gill
Thank you. And I'm really glad you brought up CASMARC and veterans healthcare and healthcare writ large. Talk finally about where you stand on healthcare issues and what you want to do for the people of Florida.
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Noah Widman
Seven, frankly, healthcare costs too damn much. It's, you know, you can ask anybody on the street, whether it's in Oviedo, Winter Park, New Smyrna beach, you can go anywhere or outside of the district, you can go to any state in this country. Healthcare costs too much. So I think there have been good strides under things like the Affordable Care act, under things like basic Medicaid and Medicare, which are under attack on this big bad, ugly bill that they're to going trying to get through the Senate. Then they've got to get it through the House again. You know, I think that those things are wrong. And frankly, when it comes to veterans health care, there's over 50,000 people right here in our district that are veterans. I think that we should protect their VA care and actually stop the firings, the illegal firings I might add, of the folks at the va, from nurses on down and on up through admin staff that make sure our veterans get everything from knee replacements to life saving surgeries to we need to make sure that our veterans are put first and that frankly, healthcare broadly in this country is more affordable. If I can make one more point, please. I thought there was a great stride in the last administration to cap the cost of insulin for seniors, for example, at $35. We need to build on policy like that to make sure that people don't die because of being poor or being an everyday working family. And I'm excited to work to lower those costs.
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Alison Gill
Yeah, well, thank you for saying that. I mean, I worked at the Department of Veterans affairs for over a decade and never once did we say, boy, we have too many staff, we have too much money. We really need to shrink the Department of Veterans Affairs. We need to expand it. And when we expand it, it's actually cheaper to give that healthcare in the long run to all veterans. Same with healthcare for all Americans. It's just cheaper to give healthcare to all Americans than it is to go through these third party private middlemen who want to take giant chunks of money away from people to adjudicate what healthcare looks like to a specific family or to a specific person. So I appreciate you saying that and thank you for your time today. If there's anything else you want to let everybody know about your campaign and also where people can find information on how to support your campaign, please do that now.
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Noah Widman
Thank you. And again, thank you for your time. It means a lot. I'm a longtime listener and here's the thing I'm going to say, I think that we're at a crossroads now as a country, not just in the great state of Florida, not just in my home here in the 7th congressional district, but also nationwide. I think that this moment is going to call for things like Real Action, a new generation of leadership and leaders who are going to actually get things done for the American people while also standing up to everything this administration's doing. In addition, I also think that what's going to be important is having representation in Congress. I don't think that we really have enough working class people in the House, in the Senate. And I think that my story, from section 8 housing all the way to now being an attorney helping to protect people, keeping their Section 8 housing, I think that that kind of representation is going to matter because frankly, people can't solve problems they don't know exist. Additionally, I would love to earn the support of your great listeners. My website is noahforflorida.com that's N O A H F O R F L O R I D A dot com and this Monday when the podcast comes out on the 30th, this is the end of our first quarter. It would mean the world to me if anyone's comfortable making a contribution to this people powered campaign, frankly, that's how we're gonna take back Congress. That's how we're gonna win swing districts like this. And it would be an honor to earn your support. Thank you all so much and I really appreciate the time.
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Alison Gill
Thank you so much. And thanks for mentioning people power. We've been talking for a while now about like in Wisconsin with the Supreme Court race, how Elon Musk came in with his $20 million and people beat that by double digits. We've been talking about Mamdani in New York after Bloomberg comes in and pours tens of millions of dollars into Cuomo's campaign that the people power, regardless of, you know, policy, it's what the people in those districts want and it's what they can go out and get. So I appreciate your time today and thank you so much for talking to us here on the Daily Beans. Noah Widman, thank you everybody. Stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news everyone. Then, good news everyone. 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