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Americans for Prosperity has launched a campaign to “Spotlight the Real Benefits of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The first stop, on Friday, involved participants of AFP-Ohio who had a message for Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat representing Ohio’s 9th Congressional District. The OBBB was signed into law by President Donald Trump last month, though Democrats like Kaptur voted against it. It’s a bill that the White House and groups in support, like Americans for Prosperity, are promoting as a tax cut and more. “The campaign, which includes targeted digital and connected-TV ads, grassroots outreach, and themed events across the country, will ensure that Americans understand how the OBBBA is lowering costs, jump-starting the economy, and improving lives,” a press release from Americans for Prosperity explained. “The first in a series of ads will highlight four key features of the legislation: permanent tax cuts, border security, lower energy costs, and reforms that will strengthen Medicaid for those who truly need it.” As part of a Friday morning rally in Toledo, where Kaptur’s district office is located, a group of Ohioans gathered to voice their concerns about Kaptur’s vote. Attendees promoted income tax cuts and border security, also tying it to the campaign promises that other Ohio politicians, including Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno, did follow through on with their campaign promises. Moreno was added as a member to Senate leadership last month, after he helped get the OBBB over the finish line. Rally attendees also called out Moreno’s predecessor, now former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. “Hey hey, ho ho, Marcy Kaptur has got to go,” attendees even chanted. Posts over social media promoted “holding [Kaptur] accountable.” .@RepMarcyKaptur voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill = she voted to raise your taxes! Thankfully the #OBBB passed and she didn’t get her way, but her constituents in OH 9 are still holding her accountable. pic.twitter.com/NJgISes1Ov— Carly McCain (@Carly_McCain) August 1, 2025 An AFP-Ohio Facebook live video from the event emphasized the bill’s benefits, calling out the congresswoman for voting against them. “Time and time again, over the 40 plus years Marcy’s had in Washington, D.C., she continuously votes against the will of her constituents and for D.C. special interests,” said Donovan O’Neil, the state director of AFP-Ohio. “Toledeans are fired up! Northwest is fired up, and fed up, with what she’s doing,” he continued. Although O’Neil acknowledged it’s a long time from next year’s midterms, he still offered that “we’re starting now, talking to folks, reminding them of what’s at stake.” “There’s a lot at stake with this, folks, and that’s why we’re out here talking about it,” O’Neil added, promoting the rally as a way to reach Kaptur. O’Neil further highlighted what’s at stake in a statement for The Daily Signal. “Rep. Marcy Kaptur has spent decades in Washington voting for bloated spending, open borders, and radical Green New Deal scams that punish Ohio families,” he said in a statement. “The Trump Middle Class Tax Cuts flip that script—cutting $1.1 trillion in reckless spending, killing handouts for special interests, and unleashing American energy. If Kaptur thinks protecting Washington, D.C. status quo is more important than ensuring $1500 in permanent tax cuts for her constituents, she has no business representing a working-class state like Ohio.” Kaptur has previously spoken against the OBBB over social media. She is a target of the National Republican Congressional Committee for next year’s midterms. Earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance also called the congresswoman out for such a vote. ? The Daily Signal's @RebeccaRoseGold asks @VP JD Vance if two Ohio Democrats who voted AGAINST the One Big Beautiful Bill could see their reelection chances suffer come midterms:"I don't think the American people should reward that broken style of politics, and I don't think… pic.twitter.com/OfG09zxCQY— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) July 28, 2025 State Rep. Josh Williams, who is running as a Republican to challenge Kaptur also called out Kaptur for her vote in a statement for The Daily Signal. “Marcy Kaptur’s vote against the Trump agenda and the One Big Beautiful Bill is proof positive that she serves radical, left-wing special interest groups in Washington D.C., and not the hardworking people of Northwest Ohio,” said Williams. There are more events to come, which coincide with the August recess. “As part of the campaign, AFP will host dozens of events with lawmakers during the August recess to energize constituents and continue educating communities about the bill’s benefits. These events will serve as a platform to highlight how the OBBBA is delivering on its promises and to equip citizens with the facts they need to counter misleading political rhetoric,” the press release explained. “AFP also intends to highlight individual testimonials from families and small business owners who now have renewed confidence to invest in the economy and plan for the future.” The post Americans for Prosperity Has a Message for Rep. Kaptur on the OBBB appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Deadline.com is reporting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down its operations after the loss of federal funding. "The CPB informed employees on Friday that the majority of staff positions will end on Sept. 30, with a small transition team in place through January, 2026." If this happens, this is not a shutdown of PBS or NPR stations, but a shutdown of the corporation that sends out the taxpayer money to PBS and NPR stations. After all of their protests that their taxpayer funding wasn't a large portion of their budgets, the stations are now acting like the defunding is catastrophic to their operations.  On his X account, MRC President David Bozell approved of the breaking news: Finally. After decades of taxpayer-funded propaganda masquerading as “public broadcasting,” the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down. For years, Americans were forced to foot the bill for NPR and PBS, two media arms that insulted the very taxpayers funding them.… pic.twitter.com/n9IXuXdGSS — David Bozell ?? (@DavidBozell) August 1, 2025 The "public media" lobby has been attempting to get the defunding reversed, but this week, Senate Republicans advanced a funding bill that also included no money for CPB in the years to come. Republicans have long felt that when it comes to reducing the size of the federal government, an obvious place to start is government-funded radio and TV, an outdated concept in an age with so many options in media. Because of this, CPB has always relied on Democrats to keep the taxpayer spigot open, and the pro-Democrat bias has sweetened this natural affinity with those who would maximize the federal establishment.  Could CPB have maintained funding if they had attempted to live up to the language in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 that demanded "objectivity and balance in all programming of a controversial nature?" We can tell you from our daily review of news: PBS and NPR made no serious attempt in 2025 to change their historical pattern in favoring the Left.   

President Donald Trump told reporters in Great Britain on Monday that he was "very disappointed" in Russian President Vladimir Putin over his failure to play ball on peace talks, noting that he would shorten a 50-day negotiating window and "make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days."The president later added, "And then we're going to put on tariffs."Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Russian Federation's security council and former Russian president, said in response, "Trump's playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn't Israel or even Iran. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don't go down the Sleepy Joe road!"'Russia is right about everything and will continue to go its own way.'The engagement between the two men online quickly devolved into talk of nuclear war and, on Friday afternoon, the dispatch of two nuclear submarines.Grigorii Golosov, a political science professor at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, told the New York Times that Trump has targeted Medvedev rather than Putin online because he "wants to criticize someone in Russia" but is still hoping to make a deal with the current Russian president.On Thursday, Trump suggested that Russia and the United States should continue to do "almost no business together" — total trade between the two nuclear powers amounted to $3.5 billion in 2024 — and said that Medvedev should "watch his words," adding, "He's entering very dangerous territory!"RELATED: Trump slaps India with 25% tariff — in an attempt to influence Russia Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Getty ImagesMedvedev issued a rejoinder hours later on Telegram, writing in Russian, "If certain words uttered by the former Russian president provoke such a nervous reaction from the formidable US president, then Russia is right about everything and will continue to go its own way."Putin's right-hand man added, "Let him remember his favorite movies about 'The Walking Dead,' as well as how dangerous the non-existent in nature 'Dead Hand' can be.""Dead Hand" is a reference to a nuclear weapon launch system that could apparently trigger nuclear attacks across the U.S. in the event that a nuclear strike on Moscow is detected or if communications with top Russian leaders drop off.Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Col. Gen. Sergey Karakayev told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in a 2011 interview that the system was indeed "on combat duty."President Trump was not at all amused by the allusion to an American nuclear holocaust.On Friday afternoon, Trump noted that based on Medvedev's "highly provocative statements," he has "ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.""Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences," continued the president. "I hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared Trump's statement online. Neither the president nor Hegseth indicated where the submarines were being deployed. — (@) In an earlier message on Friday, the president bemoaned the loss of life in Ukraine, noting:Almost 20,000 Russian soldiers died this month in the ridiculous War with Ukraine. Russia has lost 112,500 soldiers since the beginning of the year. That is a lot of unnecessary DEATH! Ukraine, however, has also suffered greatly. They have lost approximately 8,000 soldiers since January 1, 2025, and that number does not include their missing.This is a developing story.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Senate Republicans were back at it this morning, grinding away at the massive backlog of White House nominations awaiting their approval — and facing the most obstinate Democrat resistance in modern nomination history. If it continues much longer, the majority will face a choice — and the Senate, a change in the rules.Senators worked until 10 p.m. Thursday night, were back at it at 11 a.m. Friday, had multiple votes ready to proceed, but still had over 150 to go. Friday was also supposed to be the start of a planned recess. But as the bombastic Mike Davis, the Article III Project founder and former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), told me Thursday afternoon: “Recess is for children.”The longer Republicans wait, the longer overwhelmingly Democratic career appointees run the government.Chamber rules and traditions grant each member a great deal of deference, and individual senators wield impressive amounts of power when they want to, as we saw earlier this week when Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) derailed his own party’s non-controversial, bipartisan package delivering relief to American police. Without unanimous consent, debate can stretch out for as long as 30 hours per nominee, and bills can be debated for weeks.Unanimous consent was the historic norm for all but the more controversial nominees: Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton received unanimous consent for 98% of their civilian nominations, according to statistics released by the majority leader’s office.Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama suffered lower numbers, as the two major parties continued to sort more into ideological camps than regional ones (conservatives and liberals, instead of Northerners and Southerners) and as the 24-hour news cycle turned up the heat and the rewards. But both presidents still enjoyed unanimous consent for 90% of their nominees.Those numbers plummeted to 65% during President Donald Trump’s first term and continued to decline under President Joe Biden, hitting 57%. Today, in Trump’s second term, that number stands at zero.This is the reality Republicans are facing. South Dakota Republican Sen. Majority Leader John Thune’s office is quick to point out they have hit a number of records, but dissatisfaction and frustration are growing rapidly. Thus far, for example, the Senate has not confirmed a single U.S. attorney, including for Washington, D.C., or the Southern District of Florida — the two districts where Russiagate-related prosecutions would play out.Judge Jason Reding Quinones is up for the Florida job. He’s a former assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district, former adviser for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and a former Air Force JAG officer. He was reported out of committee ready for a full-Senate vote on May 15 — 78 days ago.Another embarrassing case is the president’s nominee to the Holy See. Brian Burch has languished for months in political turmoil, leading to the painful spectacle of the first American pope in history having no American ambassador.The longer Republicans wait, the longer overwhelmingly Democratic career appointees run the government. And Democrats know this.Meanwhile, Republicans are eager to get out of D.C. and start selling the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Frankly, it’s not easy caging up a bunch of powerful and independent-minded 70- and 80-year-olds who are used to getting into town late on Monday and hitting the road Thursday afternoon.If the Democrats continue this course, Republicans can grind away slowly. Neither side wants to spend August in D.C., and when Democrats mounted similar opposition in 2017, members broke and consented just before the August recess they would have begun Friday.If they refuse to consent, Thune has other options.One is to adjourn the Senate for a full recess of at least 10 days. That hasn’t happened in decades. But if it did, President Trump could bypass Senate obstruction and make recess appointments lasting through the end of the current Senate term in January 2027.That option remains remote — for now. It would require the House to return to Washington and vote to adjourn and a Senate majority to agree. Most senators aren’t eager to give up their power to advise and consent. They still want a say in who gets confirmed.A more plausible route: Change the rules.The Senate has a long history of rewriting its procedures when obstruction becomes the objective and arcane rules become, as one senior staffer put it, “unbelievable barriers.”Ideas already under discussion include shortening debate time, bundling nominees into batches (as is done with military promotions), or scrapping Senate approval entirely for certain lower-level posts.“If Democrats don’t give them anything, make ’em death-march into the weekend,” the staffer told the Beltway Brief. “Make them work 10 and 11 p.m. nights.”Republicans, he added, “need to make a decision — and it can’t be to let Democrats use ‘norms’ as a weapon to sabotage an elected president’s administration.”Sign up for Bedford’s newsletterSign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford’s newsletter.

‘We’re clearly in uncharted waters,’ says Senator John Kennedy.