Monday, July 27, 2026

Trump addressed workers at a General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, recycling his threadbare health-care promises while declaring that U.S. strikes on Iran had saved Israel from being “terminated.” The rally doubled as a campaign stop with 99 days until midterms that will decide all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats, even as the Senate stays in session to ram through Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence and a packed legislative agenda — even as Senate Majority Leader John Thune rebuffed Trump’s demand to pass the SAVE Act.

The EPA announced Monday it will exempt power plants serving only data centers — not the broader grid — from acid-rain pollution limits, a handout to tech capital that grassroots opposition across party lines is already challenging.

Meanwhile, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is demanding hospitals hand over extensive private medical data to a private contractor — what Daily Kos calls a “creepy scheme” — while the administration presses the Supreme Court to let it restrict mail-in voting before November.

Lawyers suing Elon Musk and his America PAC say the defendants are refusing to turn over key documents in a class-action case, with attorney Shannon saying “We’re getting the run-around.” Federal agents separately seized the phone and computer of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter last September in a wide-ranging probe into his business dealings.