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--:-- Host (John Bickley): The big, beautiful bill clears a key hurdle as President Trump touts a trade deal with China. But we're having some great deals where we're going to open up India. In the China deal, we're starting to open up China. We have the latest from Capitol Hill. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): It's Monday, June 30th, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): The Supreme Court issues another landmark ruling that has the Trump administration declaring victory. It's been an amazing period of time, this last hour. And the era of transgender mania may be waning. We have the latest on the debate over women's sports. No one's discriminating against these boys. They have every right to play their sport in their own division where they belong.
--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Host (John Bickley): The Big Beautiful Bill moved one step closer to passage this weekend as Republican lawmakers pushed the president's signature legislation to the finish line. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the latest from Washington.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Hey, Cabot, so the Big Beautiful Bill, things are looking good for it in the Senate. What's the latest?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yes, they are. And a lot of people are excited for it to pass for no other reason. They won't have to keep saying Big Beautiful Bill. It is a mouthful. Now, no one doubts that it's big. Whether it's beautiful, though, depends on which side you're on.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Remember, this legislation includes the bulk of President Trump's agenda. Among other things, it'll make the 2017 tax cuts permanent, eliminate taxes on most tips, overtime pay, and Social Security payouts, increase funding for border security, remove millions of illegal immigrants from federal benefits. The list goes on. It's a lot.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, the House passed their version of the bill back in May, but the Senate has been debating it ever since, and it has been highly contentious with serious fractures. There were a few moderate and hard-like conservatives holding out up until this weekend. debating things like Medicaid cuts and deficit spending.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But after a number of tweaks and amendments, it passed a major procedural hurdle on Saturday night and the chamber voted 51-49 to advance the bill to the floor for final debates.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So what comes next? So GOP leaders say the goal is to hold a final vote as early as today actually but Democrats are doing everything in their power to stall the process For example Minority Leader Chuck Schumer used an obscure Senate rule to force clerks on the floor to read the entire 940-page bill out loud, word for word. That delayed proceedings by about 15 hours.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: GOP leaders say Democrats can only stall for so long. They are confident this thing will pass, at which point it will return to the House for a final vote there, and then on to the president's desk. Trump said he's aiming for a July 4th signing.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): Here he is speaking on Sunday about what's at stake. It's very important. If we don't have it, there's a 68 percent tax increase. All right. So as Congress is debating Trump's budget, he's also been working on a deal with China. We're hearing more details about that. Tell us about it.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah. For context, as the trade war between China and the U.S. heated up earlier this year, Beijing responded by cutting off the exports of several rare earth minerals that are crucial in everything from electronics to automotives.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: While the White House has raced to open up mines of rare earth minerals here in the U.S., that it's going to take time. The reality is it wasn't going to happen soon enough. And China accounts for about 70% of all rare earth mineral exports on Earth. So they had a lot of leverage and they could have dealt a serious blow to our economy.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But over the weekend, the Trump administration announced that a deal had been reached with Beijing that will allow those critical minerals to once again be exported to the U.S. In exchange, Washington will ease a number of tariffs and other restrictions on China's economy.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That deal was certainly music to the ears of investors and signaled the potential for movement on a broader trade deal with China. To that point, Wall Street continued its hot streak, with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ rising to near record highs, and the Dow up nearly 4% in the last week alone.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): Gavin, thanks for reporting.
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--:-- Host (John Bickley): The Supreme Court ended its term with a series of landmark rulings, including a precedent-setting case on judicial overreach. Here to discuss is Daily Wire Deputy Managing Editor Tim Rice.
--:-- Tim Rice: Say, Tim, so a massive ruling came down in this final flurry of rulings on Friday, and it's considered a big win for the president. This is Trump versus Casa. First, what was the focus of this case?
--:-- Tim Rice: Yeah, good morning, John. So this has ramifications that are rather sweeping. The case is nominally about Trump's executive order eliminating birthright citizenship. That's the idea that anyone born in this country is automatically an American citizen.
--:-- Tim Rice: It argues that the 14th Amendment has always excluded those who were born in the United States, but not subject to the jurisdiction thereof. In other words, someone born to an illegal immigrant is not automatically a citizen of the United States, the so-called anchor babies.
--:-- Tim Rice: That triggered something we've seen again and again this year. A series of injunctions by lower courts blocking the implementation of Trump order through what are called universal injunctions Those block the president order across the entire country rather than in the narrow implementation of the people who actually brought the suit
--:-- Tim Rice: The court ruled six to three on Friday that while these lower courts can issue injunctions, in most cases they cannot issue universal ones. Like we said at the top, it's a landmark ruling that marks a major shift in how executive actions can be challenged going forward.
--:-- Tim Rice: And as we've documented on this show, Trump has been the most aggressive president ever in how he's used executive orders, 142 in his first 100 days alone. That's a record.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): So the Trump administration is unsurprisingly quite happy the court has really crippled these universal injunctions. Here's President Trump on Friday. This is such a big day. This is such a big day. This is a very big moment. And it gives power back to people that should have it, including Congress, including the presidency. and it only takes bad power away from judges.
--:-- Tim Rice: So what was the majority argument in this case? So this was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and she argues that these universal injunctions, and I'm quoting here, likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts.
--:-- Tim Rice: We talked to Carrie Severino, the president of the Judicial Crisis Network and co-author of Justice on Trial, and she laid out the majority argument. Yeah, so Justice Barrett in her decision really did a masterful job of showing the history. And you can really see she clerked for Justice Scalia. He's her mentor. It was an originalist, historically based opinion through and through.
--:-- Tim Rice: She looked way back to English common law and said, what are the authorities of a judge that we thought we were giving to judges in the Judiciary Act of 1789? And it's very clear this was never understood to be part of the judicial authority and, in fact, wasn't ever part of the judicial authority until the 1960s.
--:-- Tim Rice: So this is something that's very new in history. And, again, almost all of the historical examples of all time of this kind of thing happening have just been over the last few presidencies. And the vast, vast majority have been specifically under President Trump. That doesn't read like it's an actual judicial thing. it reads like this is more an example of judges who are letting their politics get in the way of what their actual judicial role is, which is deciding cases above the parties in front of them.
--:-- Tim Rice: She also highlighted how Justice Barrett took aim at progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent. Her opinion was really just full of rhetoric about how could a court ever allow anyone to do anything that's contrary to the Constitution? And it just missed the whole concept of limited powers.
--:-- Tim Rice: And so that was one of Justice Barrett's comebacks on that is, look, you may not believe in an imperial executive, but you believe in an imperial judiciary that anytime just roving around, you see anything that looks wrong, you got to smack it down. It doesn't matter if they're before you. It doesn't matter anything else. Just do justice. That's not how a government of limited powers works.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): Along with the court's six to three ruling in favor of parental rights on Friday, the Trump administration has been celebrating a very successful Supreme Court term for its agenda. Indeed, particularly on that universal injunction ruling, which gives the president the ability to start implementing more of that agenda.
--:-- Tim Rice: Tim, thanks for joining us. You bet.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): On this last day of June, we take a look back at the month, which the White House renamed Title IX month, honoring the civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools. The change is meant to highlight the administration's priority on protecting women's sports and spaces.
--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Daily Wire investigative reporter Mairead Elordi is here to talk about how public opinion has shifted drastically on Title IX issues over the past few years.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: So, Mairead, what changes have we seen?
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Hi, Georgia. Well first we should note that we now have a president President Trump who declared June Title IX month rather than recognizing Pride Month As a reminder the Biden administration did a radical rewrite of Title IX to include transgender issues which Trump reversed He barred males and women's sports at schools, and he prohibited schools from allowing kids to use the bathrooms of the opposite gender.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: So that's a huge shift right off the bat. One of the biggest wins on Title IX was the NCAA changing its transgender athlete policy to only allow biological females in women's sports.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: And one really powerful example of how the public's attitude has changed. Earlier this month, Simone Biles, the Olympic gymnast, got into an altercation online with Riley Gaines. She's the college swimmer who was forced to give up her trophy to trans-identifying male Leah Thomas.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Biles attacked Gaines over her work trying to keep men out of women's sports, and she even insulted Gaines, telling her she looked like a man. This did not work out for Biles. She faced a tremendous amount of backlash, and she ultimately apologized to Gaines before deleting her ex-account altogether.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Now, a recent flashpoint in the Title IX debate has been in liberal California, which recently joined Maine in defying the federal guidance on girls' sports. So what's the latest in California?
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Right, well, just on Wednesday, the Department of Education said it found California is violating Title IX by allowing males and girls' sports. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said California has 10 days to fix its violations.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Well, they run the risk of losing their federal funding their K-12 schools, and that's where these infractions were committed. We talked to Sonia Shaw. She's school board president in the Chino Valley United School District in California.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Shaw made headlines in 2023 when she went head-to-head with California's attorney general over her district's new policy requiring schools to inform parents when their child says they're transgender. In March, Shaw also went viral for ripping up a cease and desist letter from a boy's mother who was upset Shaw spoke out about her son competing against girls in track.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: So this cease and desist, that's what I feel about that cease and desist. Shaw believes parents are on her side. I've been a big advocate for protecting girls in their sports. My daughters are female athletes, you know. And so to me, even as a mother prior, when Biden was trying to pervert Title IX and, you know, allow gender expression as, you know, being protected under Title IX, that's when I started taking a stand when I saw that.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: These are policies that I would say 80% of Californians believe in, but I would also go further to say 90% of parents believe in, right? So at the end of the day, I thought, you know what? We need to bring all this forward as a state. We need to stop allowing this insanity at the driver's seat and turn the ship around.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Advocates for women's sports in California did get a small win when the state changed its rules for the high school track and field championship to allow an extra girl to compete in events that include a trans-identifying male competitor.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Now, before California, Maine's Governor Janet Mills was sparring with Trump over girls sports. But recently, she's gotten some backlash from her constituents. What's happening in Maine?
--:-- Mairead Elordi: That's right. This week, Governor Janet Mills was booed by her own Maine residents when she spoke at the annual Maine Moose Lottery. At one point, someone yelled, we have daughters. So this is just another sign of how public opinion has shifted across the country on Title IX issues, even in some of these blue states like Maine and California.
--:-- Mairead Elordi: Well, it'll be interesting to see if California makes more concessions to conservatives on this issue. That would really show the tide is turning.
--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Maraid, thanks for reporting. Thanks, Georgia. Thanks for waking up with us.
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