Lots Of Insane Ideas Flying Around At Alligator Alcatraz

President Trump and the visit of his entourage to the new detention center of adjacent immigrants from Ron Desantis – were presented as a “one -stop shop for the application of immigration” by the prosecutor general of Florida James Uthmeier – was almost as disturbed and macabre as his name, “Alligator Alcatraz”, suggested.

As I noted yesterday, Desantis and Trump decided that the opening of the new immigrant detention and treatment center was the right time to put aside their differences and meet on their common goal of upsetting the lives of undocumented immigrants in a more and more humiliating and dehumanizing way. Train fishing is part of Magi Shatick; A final social media -type fishing tickling was thick to most of the Trump administration actions, an approach to politics that Desantis also managed to embody.

Trump went to Florida with the secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, Tuesday for the opening of the installation. The visit worked as a photo and a media moment that Trump ended up using to offer a lot of crazy ideas. Let me decompose it.

• Trump said that he had approved the Desantis plan to use Florida National Guard members – those of the General Corps Defender judge – to operate as immigration judges in order to accelerate deportations. Desantis has pushed this program for some time, according to Miami Herald.
• Trump then suggested at one point that CNN could be “pursued” for its reports on at least two different scenarios that the administration did not like: its coverage of an application called Iceblock which allows users to warn the activity of the ice near them and to account for the question of whether the Trump administration has really erased the targeted installations in Iran.
• In response to a confusing question of a journalist – it is not clear to what postponement came to know if the predecessor of Noem, Alejandro Mayorkas, should be arrested, Trump asked Noem to, essentially, to investigate the former administration of Biden.
• “Because what he did was beyond the incompetent, something had to happen,” said Trump. “Now, that being said, he took the orders of others, and he really did the orders. Why not take a look at it, Kristi? … Someone told Mayorkas to do so, and he followed the orders, but that does not necessarily hold him harmless, so take a look,” he said.
• To top it off, he threw the idea that he might have to arrest the candidate for the Democrat mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani and to deport him potentially. “We are going to look at this very carefully, and many people say he is here illegally. … We are going to look at everything.”

Musk feels bad

In the midst of his in progress quarrel with President Trump on the content of the mega Bill of expenditure of the Republicans, Elon Musk claims to have regrets about this all thing Doge.

At least he claims to have regrets on the rider marketing The unleashing without law of his team by the federal government, while it has closed major federal programs and canceled the funds without the authorization of the Congress. By Bloomberg:

Elon Musk expresses a certain regret of having agitated a chainsaw to drag the crowd during a conservative conference in February, as his quarrel with Donald Trump about the president’s taxation and expenses.

“Milei gave me the chainsaw behind the scenes and I ran with it, but, in retrospect, he lacked empathy,” said Musk in an article on X, referring to the Argentinian president who was on stage with him at the conservative political action conference.

Murkowski’s illusion

A large part of the work of the Republican Directorate of the Senate in recent days – before the bill was adopted in the upper room this afternoon – focused on the attempt by senator Lisa Murkowski (R -AK) at “Yes” on the Megabill.

She – rightly! – has worried about the impact that Medicaid cuts and federal nutrition programs like Snap could have in its state. At one point, leadership thought that they have succeeded in obtaining the support of Murkowski by modifying the language in the bill which would protect Alaska from some of the provisions which will put the states in position to find additional funds to cover the costs of Medicaid for their voters. But the Senate parliamentarian rejected management changes.

In the end, it seems that Thune was able to bring Murkowski to “yes” by working with the Senate parliamentarian to, among other things, revise the derogations so that the snap cuts include 10 states with the highest payment error rates. This, combined with the increase in expenditure of the rural hospital fund and the abolition of the solar and wind energy tax, would have helped the Alaska senator to get there. A tax relief for the captains of whale boles, specifically targeting the senator from Alaska, also cut, depending on the American perspective.

Murkowski ended up voting “yes” to help adopt the bill.

After her adoption, she called on the “scary” decision and acted naive about the very tight calendar, her colleagues from the Senate and her rooms in the Chamber are blurring to meet. His remarks also suggest a level of illusion on the Trump hold, which imposed the calendar, has at the Conference of Républicains de la Chambre.

Murkowski tells journalists that she wants the room to send the OBBB to the Senate to continue the work. She voted for that.

“I hope the house will look at this and recognize that we are not there yet,” said Murkowski

– Brendan Pedersen (@brendanpedersen) July 1, 2025

The harmful devastating bill now, of course, is back in the courtyard of the room. It is not known when the Republican leaders of the Chamber will carry it on Earth for a vote; He must first leave the rules committee. At least two republican members of this panel expressed some scruples to vote outside the committee without changes.

How did the Senate republicans end up further than the room?

An excellent point of my colleague Emine Yücel – which has covered for months all the painful details of the reconciliation package, and the stages that the Republicans have taken to obtain it as far as they have:

I think it is important to emphasize that few people expected the Senate to be the chamber that moved the bill of reconciliation further to the right.

The Republican senators have included deeper cups of Medicaid and a faster calendar to eliminate the tax credits on wind and solar energy. They also added much more – hundreds of billions of dollars – to the deficit compared to the invoice of the room.

Usually it is the members of the ungovernable far right, in particular those of the House Freedom Caucus, who end up tackling this kind of extreme provisions in everyone’s throat, based on the thin majority of republicans in the chamber. But with the Senate Republicans who focused on the search for a means of making Trump 2017 tax discounts, this time, the roles were committed.

You can make up for the rest of our cover live from the adoption of the bill to the Senate today.

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