Morning Wire - DOJ Sues LA & Trump Targets The Fed | 7.1.25

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

The DOJ cracks down on “sanctuary city” Los Angeles, Trump lambasts two American institutions, and Democrats dig in their heels to slow the Big Beautiful Bill. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.   - - -   Today's Sponsors:   EarnIn - Type in Morning Wire under PODCAST when you sign up for EarnIn today by downloading in the Google Play or Apple App Store.   Pockethose - Text MORNINGWIRE to 64000 to get a FREE pocket pivot and their 10-pattern sprayer with the purchase of ANY size Copper Head hose. Message and data rates may apply.   - - -   Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The violent criminals in our country are the priority now. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, July 1st, and this is Morning Wire. Trump continues his assault on Jerome Powell and Harvard, targeting both the Fed chairman and the Ivy League institution. If you break federal law, you should not be receiving federal tax dollars.

And Democrats try to slow Trump's budget bill as the clock ticks down on the self-imposed July 4th deadline. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. Life doesn't happen biweekly. So why should pay you? payday. The money you earn can be in your hands today with Ehrnan. Earning is an app that provides early access to your earned wages, allowing you to withdraw up to $150 per day with a max of $750 between paydays. After downloading the app and verifying your paycheck, you can access your earnings as you work and choose to leave an optional tip. Imagine a night out with friends a mere two days before payday. If you're a little short, earnens got you.

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See cash-out user agreements for details. Service not available in all states. The Trump administration has sued Los Angeles over its sanctuary city status while taking other steps to further tackle immigration. Here to discuss this Daily Wire reporter, Amanda Prestige-Ocomo. So Amanda, lots going on on the immigration front. But let's start with this lawsuit against Los Angeles. What's the administration saying? Yeah, so the Justice Department filed this lawsuit yesterday, and it says that L.A. is violating the Constitution when it enforces this so-called sanctuary city status.

The DOJ argues that L.A. is discriminating against the federal. government, specifically by treating immigration officers differently than other law enforcement officials. The suit says L.A.'s sanctuary policies are invalid and therefore they should be blocked from being enforced. And to remind listeners, with this sanctuary status, local law enforcement in L.A. won't cooperate with the feds on immigration, and the city prohibits the use of its resources for federal immigration enforcement. Attorney General Pam Bondi released a statement on this lawsuit, and she blamed these sanctuary policies for these recent and anti-ice riots. She said these policies were the, quote, driving cause of the violence, chaos,

and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles. She added that jurisdictions like L.A. that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level. Bondi said that all ends under President Trump. The DOJ has also targeted other sanctuary city policies, including in New York and New Jersey. Now, aside from targeting sanctuary policies, where do things stand with the general deportation agenda? Yeah, I mean, we're continuing to see an increase in work site raids. Dozens of these have been carried out across the nation in states like California, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, and many others. It appears that illegals with and without criminal backgrounds, aside from entering the U.S. illegally, have been picked up in those rates.

There's also 59,000 immigrant detainees in custody. Officials say that's the highest in U.S. history. These facilities are reportedly well over capacity right now. Here's Bordersar Tom Holman discussing this issue and really pushing for Trump's big, beautiful bill so immigration has more funds. What the hell's the matter with everybody up in Congress? People are dying every day. ISIS arrest in three times many criminals that Biden administration did.

We're taking public safety threats and national security threats off the street every single day. But we got over 600,000 illegal amazer of criminals. history is walking the streets of this country. We got less than 5,000 deportation officers. This should be a no-brainer. The more resources we get, if we get this bill passed, we got more agents on the road. We buy more beds. We get more transportation flights. More agents being more bad guys arrested taking off the streets this country every single day. Daily immigration arrests have also skyrocketed. In June, ICE has averaged around 1,200 daily arrests, with some days surpassing 2,000. That's nearly double the daily

average under Trump's first 100 days. So really picking up steam there, but the goal is actually 3,000 per day, so we're going to continue to see how that progresses. Additionally, as reported by the Daily Wire, Customs and Border Protection rated a Los Angeles residents that it says was being used to harbor Iranian illegal aliens with ties to terrorists. On Friday, two unidentified individuals were arrested. That followed a previous raid at the same House, and that one resulted in the arrest of seven Iranian nationals, some of whom are on the FBI terror watch list and associated with an Iranian human smuggling network. Right. Now, there was also recent action from DHS Secretary Christy Noem affecting Haitians specifically.

Tell us about that. Yeah, Nome will end temporary protected status known as TPS for up to 500,000 Haitians on September 2nd. DHS said in a press release that this decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that temporary protected status is actually temporary. This spokesperson added that the environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it's safe for Haitian citizens to return home. Wow. So no, I'm not messing around. Amanda, thanks for reporting.

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Just text MorningWire to 64,000 for your two free gifts with purchase. MorningWire to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply, see terms for details. A busy day in the nation's capital Monday as the White House continued to push its economic agenda, while also battling the nation's most prominent university over anti-Semitism. Here with the report from D.C. is Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Ola Hand. Hey, Mary Margaret. So Jerome Powell and Harvard both came under fire from the president yesterday.

Let's start with Powell, the Fed Chair. What's the latest there? Good morning, guys. Yes, so Caroline Levitt yesterday opened the briefing by telling us about a letter that President Trump sent to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. That letter was pretty scathing, and it included a hand. handwritten note from the president in which Trump urges Powell to lower the interest rates by, quote, a lot. Here's what she had to share.

Jerome, you are, as usual, too late. You have cost the USA a fortune and continue to do so. You should lower the rate by a lot. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being lost and there is no inflation. Another huge news item, the Trump administration informed Harvard yesterday that it found the university in, quote, violent violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin through its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students. If Harvard fails to take action on these things and to immediately institute adequate changes, the university could lose all its federal funding. Here's what she had to say on that. The majority of Jewish students reportedly experienced negative bias or discrimination

on their campus, while a quarter of Jewish students at Harvard felt physically unsafe. Jewish and Israeli students were assaulted and spit on. They head their Kippas for fear of being harassed and concealed their Jewish identity from classmates for fear of ostracization. These are all facts that Harvard cannot dispute. And that's why the administration has found them in violation of Title VI and has threatened to withhold their federal funding. I was also able to ask Caroline about another newsie item that's raising some eyebrows around here, a new app called Ice Block, through which people are able to tell where ICE agents are. And given that there's been a lot of violence directed at ICE agents around the country and that locals in California are docks in the locations of these agents, we thought this was pretty interesting to ask about. I just watched a CNN segment on a new app called Ice Block, and it kind of appeared to be promoting this app where you can tell people where ICE agents are.

Given recent rise, an app that tells people where ICE agents are. Yes. And given the rise, I believe 500% increase in assaults on ICE agents, I wanted to see if you could comment on that. why CNN would be promoting such now? Well, it's a very good question. I'll have to go back and watch the clip myself, but surely it sounds like this would be an incitement of further violence against our ICE officers.

As you know, as you've stated, there's been a 500% increase in violence against ICE agents, law enforcement officers across the country, who are just simply trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from our communities. Caroline also shared that the president is today headed to Alligator Alcatraz, a new prison for illegal aliens in Florida that's sure to be causing some controversy. She described this prison in dramatic detail.

Here's what she had to say. There is only one road leading in, and the only way out is a one-way flight. It is isolated and surrounded by dangerous wildlife in unforgiving terrain. The facility will have up to 5,000 beds to house, process, and deport criminal illegal aliens. This is an efficient and low-cost way to help carry out the largest mass. deportation campaign in American history. A notable trip there, for sure. And as usual, a jam-pack day from the White House.

Mayor Margaret, thanks so much for reporting. Thanks for having me. Democrats pulled out all the stops yesterday to toward Trump's sweeping legislative agenda, which has slowly pushed its way through Congress despite some Republicans joining the opposition. Daily Wire, Senior Editor Cabot Phillips, has the latest. So, Cabot, you've been following this for a few weeks now,

and we just had a series of votes on this. Where do things stand in the process now? Yeah, a long process indeed for President Trump to get his long-wished for big, beautiful bill. The Senate yesterday held a so-called voterrama that lasted all day well into the evening, with Democrats forcing votes on amendments to the bill as a way of stalling, but also forcing Republicans to go on their record regarding topics like Medicaid funding and tax cuts for the wealthy. Two issues they believe Republicans are out of touch on.

But ultimately, they cannot stall forever. at the time of this recording, the debate is still going on. A vote still has not been held, but Republican leaders say once the Democrats run out of stall tactics, a vote will be held and they're confident it'll pass. Now, look, a few months ago, the idea of this thing getting through Congress seemed a bit unlikely, especially given a Republican slim majority in both chambers

and all of the competing interests within the party. Typically, in situations like this, the president will push for their agenda to be broken up into smaller pieces and then voted on piecemeal. Trump was adamant from the start that everything had to be included in one bill. And it looks like he's now going to get his wish. After leaving the Senate, the bill will head to the House for a likely vote on Wednesday. And then Trump, true to form, is expected to sign this bill into law on July 4th, just hours before the fireworks start going off.

And now all along, though, there has been significant opposition even from Republicans. Yeah, you're right. From the start, President Trump made clear that he expected Republicans to get in line with his agenda, which he says reflects the will of the voters who put him there in the first place. And he went hard after Republican defectors, especially North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis, who voted against the bill and slammed President Trump from the Senate floor. What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years, when President Trump breaks this promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore. Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betraying a promise.

As you can imagine, that opposition drew swift condemnation from President Trump, who accused him of grandstanding, quote, in order to get publicity. Trump went on to say that he would be meeting with potential candidates to launch a primary challenge against Tillis in the 26 midterms, but ultimately that will not be necessary. That's because the three-term senator announced Sunday, he would not be seeking re-election. apparently reading the writing on the wall.

And it's worth noting, the White House disputes Tillis' claim that Medicaid funding will be cut under this bill. This bill strengthens Medicaid. It will protect those benefits that hardworking Americans need. And that's why the president wants this bill to pass. The senator was wrong. So while President Trump seemingly has won the battle in Congress, or at least will very shortly, he'll now have to win the messaging battle to win over voters on his signature legislation. The reality is, polling says this big, beautiful bill,

is not all that popular with Americans right now. Pew has it with a net favorable rating of minus 20. Fox has it at minus 21 and Quinnipiac minus 26. So they've got some work to do on that front. For their part, the White House says they're confident that once it goes into effect and folks see the extra money coming into their paycheck every month, they'll change their tune quickly.

Now pivoting here, the other big news coming out of Washington over the past few days was regarding the trade deal with Canada. What's going on there? Yeah, President Trump is having a good week. another win here, this one on trade. On Friday, amid ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada, the Canadians came out and announced a new digital tax that would cost American tech companies billions of dollars. President Trump was furious and responded by terminating those ongoing trade talks, vowing to, quote, let Canada know the tariff that they will be paying to do business with the U.S. within the next week. Now, initially, the Canadians doubled down, vowing new tariffs on U.S. steel imports, but within 24 hours, they retreated.

saying they would instead rescind that digital sales tax and resume negotiations on a broader trade deal. That news once again sent markets soaring with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ each hitting new record highs. Well, a big week for President Trump. Cabot, thanks for reporting. Absolutely. Thanks for waking up with us. And if you're watching on YouTube, like and subscribe. We'll be back this evening with more news you need to know.