🗞️Speaker Johnson spilts from Trump on Epstein files

...also U.S. trade deal with Indonesia and Apple's $500 million partnership

July 15, 2025

July 15th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Mike Johnson Breaks With Trump On Epstein Files, Demands DOJ Release All Records | Watch

House Speaker Mike Johnson called for the DOJ to release all information on Jeffrey Epstein, diverging from the Trump administration’s stance. He also urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to clarify past remarks about a possible client list. Johnson emphasized transparency, saying the public should be allowed to see all documents., US News, Times Now

www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/mike-johnson-breaks-with-trump-on-epstein-files-demands-doj-release-all-records-watch-article-152286325/amp

  • House Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly stated that the White House and Justice Department "should put everything out there and let the people decide" when it comes to the Epstein files, breaking from President Trump on the matter… also today House Republicans narrowly blocked a Democratic effort to force the release of Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, with the motion failing 211-210 along party lines, all present Republicans voted against Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-CA) procedural amendment that would have required Attorney General Bondi to publish the files within 30 days

  • President Trump announced that the U.S. has reached a trade deal with Indonesia under which Indonesian goods will face a 19% tariff upon entering the U.S., while U.S. exports to Indonesia will not be taxed

  • Senate Republicans are moving to scale back some of President Trump’s proposed $9.4 billion in spending cuts, particularly by preserving some funding for global AIDS programs and potentially softening cuts to public broadcasting, in order to secure enough votes for the cuts to pass

  • News Corp, which owns media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company (includes Barron's, MarketWatch), New York Post announced that its board has authorized a new $1 billion share buyback program

  • Apple has committed $500 million to a long-term partnership with MP Materials, which is the only fully integrated rare earth mining and magnet production company in the U.S., to domestically source rare earth magnets essential for their devices like iPhones and iPads…read more here

  • June CPI inflation came in at 2.7% year over year, above expectations of 2.6%,

    Core CPI inflation came in at 2.9% year over year, in-line with expectations

  • According to the National Association of Realtors, in 2004 the number of first-time homebuyers was nearly 3.2 million, now that number is just 1.14 million

  • DOW down .98% / S&P down .40%

  • France’s Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou, has proposed eliminating two national holidays as part of a sweeping economic reform plan aimed at boosting productivity and saving money on next year’s budget

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