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2.4 million
“Republican-led cuts to public assistance programs – carried out at the behest of Donald Trump’s administration – will lead to 2.4 million fewer Americans receiving food stamps, among them families with children,” The Guardian reports.
$3.4 billion
David Kirkpatrick attempts an honest accounting of the Trump family’s profits from two presidencies — and conservatively estimates the sum to be $3.4 billion. “By the time I finished adding up the Trump family’s profits, I was almost inured to it all.”
450
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing,” the AP reports. DOGE cut 1,300 NOAA employees in March.
6%
Immigration data obtained by NBC News in June revealed ICE officials have detained just 6 percent of the 13,000 immigrants to the U.S. known to have committed murder, and at most 11 percent of the 16,000 migrants convicted of sexual assault.
$500 million
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted,” the AP reports. “The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, Covid-19 and H5N1 infections.”
$4.1 trillion
“Interest rates will be higher over the next decade because of the GOP’s megabill and drive up borrowing costs even for the federal government, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts in a new report released Monday,” Politico reports. “In a final “dynamic” analysis of the bill President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the measure will increase the federal deficit by $4.1 trillion over a decade.”
+60,000
More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, reports the Associated Press. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children, according to health officials. The Israeli offensive, launched in response to Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and fueled a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
62%
Among the 24 countries surveyed in early 2025, the majority of respondents had a negative view of Israel (median 62%), according to the Pew Research Center. Just three countries had more positive responses than negative: India, Kenya and Nigeria. U.S. disapproval increased from 42% to 53% between 2022-25, with similar trends across Europe and East Asia. The data indicate a broad erosion of Israel’s global image following recent conflicts. Public confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is similarly low, as most respondents express little or no trust in his leadership.
+3,000
The Wall Street Journal found that right-wing podcasters discussed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in over 3,000 episodes of 125 podcasts this year and that these discussions “grew more than eightfold in the last three weeks despite Trump’s admonishment that MAGA drop the issue.”
$2,400
The Yale Budget Lab says the new tariff rates President Trump announced late Thursday are the highest in nearly a century and will cost the average family about $2,400 this year, Axios reports. After blending the various rates assigned to different countries, the average tariff now stands at 18.3%, the highest since 1934.
