2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details

2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details

NBA free agencyis off to a fast start. Many of thetop free agentsare already off the board. Keep track of the most notable free agent moves below. Jakob Poeltl reportedly agrees to extension with RaptorsDeal: 4 years, $104 million Sandro Mamukelashvili reportedly agrees to deal with RaptorsDeal: 2 years, $5.5 million Jericho Sims reportedly agrees to re-sign with BucksDeal: 2 years, league minimum Dennis Schröder reportedly signing with KingsDeal: 3 years, $45 million Gary Harris reportedly agrees to deal with BucksDeal: 2 years, N/A Myles Turner reportedly agrees to deal with BucksDeal: 4 years, $107 million Guerschon Yabusele reportedly agrees to sign with KnicksDeal: 2 years, $12 million Shai Gilgeous-Alexander reportedly agrees to supermax extensionDeal: 4 years, $285 million Gary Trent Jr. reportedly agrees to return to BucksDeal: 2 years, $7.5 million Trendon Watford reportedly agrees to deal with 76ersDeal: 2 years, $5.3 million Taurean Prince reportedly agrees to return to BucksDeal: 2 years, $7.1 million Mason Plumlee reportedly signs deal with HornetsDeal: 1 year, $3.6 million Luke Kennard reportedly agrees to deal with HawksDeal: 1 year, $11 million Brook Lopez reportedly leaving Bucks for ClippersDeal: 2 years, $18 million Tyus Jones reportedly agrees to join MagicDeal: 1 year, $7 million Nickeil Alexander-Walker reportedly headed to Hawks in sign-and-tradeDeal: 4 years, $62 million Caris LeVert reportedly agrees to sign with PistonsDeal: 2 years, $29 million Luke Kornet reportedly agrees to deal with SpursDeal: 4 years, $41 million Clint Capela reportedly agrees to deal with RocketsDeal: 3 years, $21.5 million Ty Jerome reportedly agrees to deal with GrizzliesDeal: 3 years, $28 million Dorian Finney-Smith reportedly agrees to deal with RocketsDeal: 4 years, $53 million Kevin Porter Jr. reportedly re-signing with BucksDeal: 2 years, $11 million Bruce Brown Jr. reportedly reuniting with NuggetsDeal: 1 year, veteran's minimum Tre Jones reportedly returning to BullsDeal: 3 years, $24 million D'Angelo Russell reportedly agrees to join MavericksDeal: 2 years, $13 million Kevon Looney reportedly agrees to deal with PelicansDeal: 2 years, $16 million Cam Spencer reportedly agrees to deal with GrizzliesDeal: 2 years, $4.5 million Paul Reed reportedly will re-sign with PistonsDeal: 2 years, $11 million Jake LaRavia reportedly signing with LakersDeal: 2 years, $12 million Santi Aldama reportedly agrees to new deal with GrizzliesDeal: 3 years, $52.5 million Grizzlies, Jaren Jackson Jr. agree to 5-year, $240 million extensionDeal: 5 years, $240 million Rockets reportedly re-signing Jeff Green, Aaron HolidayDeals: 1 year, veteran's minimum Nicolas Batum reportedly returning to ClippersDeal: 2 years, $11.5 million Ziaire Williams reportedly returning to Nets on 2-year dealDeal: 2 years, $12 million Jabari Smith reportedly signing rookie extension with RocketsDeal: 5 years, $122 million James Harden declines option, reportedly re-signing with ClippersDeal: 2 years, $81.5 million Bobby Portis reportedly re-signing with BucksDeal: 3 years, $44 million Ajay Mitchell reportedly re-signing with ThunderDeal: 3 years, $9 million Julius Randle reportedly agrees to stay with TimberwolvesDeal: 3 years, $100 million Jaylin Williams reportedly agrees to extension with ThunderDeal: 3 years, $24 million Sam Merrill reportedly staying with CavaliersDeal: 4 years, $38 million Davion Mitchell reportedly re-signing with HeatDeal: 2 years, $24 million Naz Reid reportedly re-signing with TimberwolvesDeal: 5 years, $125 million

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July 01, 2025

2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details

2025 NBA free agent tracker: Latest signings and deal details NBA free agencyis off to a fast start. Many of thetop free agentsare already o...

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander agrees to massive 4-year extension with NBA champion Thunder, AP source says

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander agrees to massive 4-year extension with NBA champion Thunder, AP source says

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed on a record-setting 4-year, $285 million extension that would give him the highest single-season average salary in NBA history, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been publicly announced and likely won't be until the league's moratorium on most offseason signings is lifted on Sunday. ESPN first reported on the agreement. News of the deal comes on Canada Day, a fitting coincidence for the 26-year-old from Ontario who is coming off a season like few others in NBA history. Not only did Gilgeous-Alexander lead the Thunder to their first NBA championship and the league's best record, he swept most major individual awards — winning regular-season and NBA Finals MVP honors and the scoring title. The supermax extension was not unexpected. It was a question of timing; he could have taken a deal with an even higher total value next summer. Based on the NBA's most recent salary cap projections — the exact numbers will not be finalized until June 2027 — Gilgeous-Alexander would make somewhere around $63 million in the first season and nearly $79 million during the 2030-31 season. That would put him at an average payout of about $1 million per regular season game, and would be the highest single-season salary in NBA history. Gilgeous-Alexander didn't enter the league with superstar expectations. He was the 11th overall pick in the 2018 draft, and he was traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Thunder after his rookie year. He has been on an upward trajectory ever since, and Thunder general manager Sam Presti believes that will continue. "He's gotten better every single year," Presti said. "His mindset has allowed him to take these steps and also not — I don't feel like his progress is, like, volatile. I don't know if that makes sense, but I don't feel like it's built on things that can't be repeated and built up again." Presti referred to Gilgeous-Alexander as a "basketball artist" because he has the emotional intelligence to know when to call upon his various gifts. "I just think he's got left and right brain working, and I think when you think about people that are extremely successful in what they do, they can't operate all on one side or the other," Presti said. "People have to have — to me, the great people in life, business, sports, any industry, have to be able to access both sides, a creative side and then also a very objective side." The Thunder are set to be contenders for years. Their best player is in place long-term, all their major players are under contract through at least next season and Presti has a slew of draft picks stashed from previous trades. "We definitely still have room to grow," Gilgeous-Alexander said after the Game 7 win over the Indiana Pacers. "That's the fun part of this. So many of us can still get better. There's not very many of us on the team that are 'in our prime' or even close to it." ___ AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report. ___ AP NBA:https://apnews.com/nba

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander agrees to massive 4-year extension with NBA champion Thunder, AP source says

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander agrees to massive 4-year extension with NBA champion Thunder, AP source says OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alex...

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Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by taking photographs of a naval base, coordinating a cash dead-drop and participating in efforts to recruit members of the military who they thought might be open to working for Chinese intelligence. The case, filed in federal court in San Francisco and unsealed Monday, is the latest Justice Department prosecution to target what officials say are active efforts by the Chinese government to secretly collect intelligence about American military capabilities —a practice laid bare in startling fashion two years agowith China's launching of a surveillance balloon that U.S. officials ultimately shot down over the coast of South Carolina. "This case underscores the Chinese government's sustained and aggressive effort to infiltrate our military and undermine our national security from within," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing the case. "The Justice Department will not stand by while hostile nations embed spies in our country – we will expose foreign operatives, hold their agents to account, and protect the American people from covert threats to our national security." Officials identified the defendants as Yuance Chen, 38, who arrived in the U.S. on a visa in 2015 and later became a lawful permanent resident, and Liren "Ryan" Lai, 39, who prosecutors say lives in China but came to the U.S. sporadically, including this past spring as part of an effort to supervise clandestine espionage operations on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security or MSS. The two were arrested on charges of secretly doing China's bidding without registering as foreign agents with the Justice Department, as required by law. It was not immediately clear if they had lawyers. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday. According to an FBI affidavit filed in connection with the case, investigators believe Lai had been developing Chen to be a Chinese intelligence asset since at least mid-2021. Their activities, the FBI says, included coordinating on a dead-drop of at least $10,000 in cash to another person who was operating at the direction of the MSS. They also participated and arranged surveillance of a Navy recruiting station in California and Navy base in Washington state, including through photographs that Chen is accused of taking and that investigators believe were transmitted to Chinese intelligence. Authorities say Lai and Chen also discussed recruiting Navy employees to work for China, with Chen at one point obtaining names, hometowns and programs of recent recruits. Many listed China as their hometown and investigators believe the information was sent to China, the FBI affidavit says. The affidavit recounts conversations aimed at assessing whether individual Navy employees would make for good recruits for Chinese intelligence. In one instance, the FBI said, Chen sent Lai the name of a Navy employee and wrote: "I found out. His mother is Chinese. His father and mother did not get along and the mother was given custody when he was 8 years old. That is why he uses his mother's last name." The case is one in a series concerning Chinese intelligence-gathering, sometimes related to the U.S. military. In August 2023, for instance,two Navy sailors were charged with providing sensitive military information to China, including details on wartime exercises, naval operations and critical technical material. "Adverse foreign intelligence services like the PRC's Ministry of State Security dedicate years to recruiting individuals and cultivating them as intelligence assets to do their bidding within the United States," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg, the head of the Justice Department's National Security Division, said in a statement.

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Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Chinese nationals have been ...

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Which Senate Republicans voted against Trump's tax and spending bill?

Which Senate Republicans voted against Trump's tax and spending bill?

WASHINGTON – Three Republican senators voted againstPresident Donald Trump's package oftax reductions and Medicaid cuts, forcingVice President JD Vanceto cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the bill. GOP Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine voted against the package of Trump's priorities. Paul and Tillis had each voted against even debating the bill. Paul called for greater spending cuts. Tillis said the bill would cost his state $26 billion in Medicaid funding, breaking a federal promise of health care to low-income people. Collins had voted to debate the bill but opposed its approval primarily because of Medicaid cuts. She said one-third of her state – 400,000 people – depend on Medicaid and the bill would hurt rural healthcare providers and nursing homes. "The Medicaid program has been an important health care safety net for nearly 60 years that has helped people in difficult financial circumstances, including people with disabilities, children, seniors, and low-income families," Collins said. She also cited concerns about phasing out tax credits for renewable energy providers. She said the bill should have kept incentives for families that choose to install heat pumps and residential solar panels. "This bill has additional problems," Collins said. Trump blasted Tillis for opposing the legislation and threatened to find Republican primary opponent to challenge him in 2026. But Tillis announced the day after his vote June 28 against debating the measure that he wouldn't seek reelection. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Which Senate Republicans voted against Trump's legislative package?

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Which Senate Republicans voted against Trump's tax and spending bill?

Which Senate Republicans voted against Trump's tax and spending bill? WASHINGTON – Three Republican senators voted againstPresident Dona...

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Grading Bucks' decision to sign Myles Turner, waive Damian Lillard

Grading Bucks' decision to sign Myles Turner, waive Damian Lillard

Things aregoing to be very differentnext season for a pair of bitter rivals that met up in the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Bucks have waived Damian Lillard and stretched the remaining $113 million left on his salary over five seasons, andMilwaukee is using that salary spaceto pluck former Indiana Pacer Myles Turner on a four-year, $107 million contract, a person with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. REQUIRED READING:NBA free agency winners and losers: Lakers in trouble? LeBron James trade rumors swirl ESPN was first to report the news. Here are grades for Milwaukee's decision to sign Myles Turner and waive Damian Lillard. Lillard, who turns 36 on Tuesday, July 15, is expected to miss next season with a torn Achilles. Giventhe assets Milwaukee gave up to land Lillardin a September 2023 trade, waiving him renders the decision to acquire him a failure. Adding Turner does mitigate the loss of Brook Lopez, who reportedly signed with the Clippers, but Milwaukee's offseason is all about Giannis Antetokounmpo and keeping him happy with the team's direction. According to NBA insider Chris Haynes,Antetokounmpo was not pleasedwith the way the Bucks handled Lillard's departure. The Bucks may have an uphill battle to keep Antetokounmpo happy. Mood 💯pic.twitter.com/Ar2nvAcfXE — Giannis Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34)July 1, 2025 Grade: C+ While Turner struggled with his shot in the NBA Finals, he was the longest-tenured Pacer, serving 10 seasons with the team. Indiana loses a stretch center with range who shot 39.6% this season from 3-point range. He's a plus defender and was a leader for Indy. While the Pacers clearly appreciated Turner, they also avoided onerous luxury tax payments by re-signing him. And with Tyrese Haliburton likely to miss most, if not all of the 2025-26 season, the Pacers seemingly will take next season to regroup. In any case, Isaiah Jackson and Tony Bradley — the most likely Turner replacements — are significant downgrades. All the worse that it's the rival Bucks. Grade: C Once he gets past the challenges of leaving Indy, Turner, 29, is get his well-deserved payday and gets to play alongside Antetokounmpo — for now. Grade: A- Lillard must now get healthy and convince a team to take a flyer on him, but he gets to choose his destination and collect his guaranteed salary. Grade: B+ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Milwaukee Bucks' grade for Myles Turner signing, Damian Lillard waiver

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Grading Bucks' decision to sign Myles Turner, waive Damian Lillard

Grading Bucks' decision to sign Myles Turner, waive Damian Lillard Things aregoing to be very differentnext season for a pair of bitter ...

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Two more men's Top 10 seeds crash out at Wimbledon

Two more men's Top 10 seeds crash out at Wimbledon

No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev and No. 7 Lorenzo Musetti became the latest top seeds to lose in the first round at Wimbledon on Tuesday in London. Meanwhile, World No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy sailed through to the next round. Germany's Zverev, who is still seeking his first Grand Slam championship, was eliminated by France's Arthur Rinderknech, who fell to the grass court after the exhausting 7-6 (3), 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4 win that lasted four hours, 40 minutes. The match featured 56 aces -- 31 for Zverev -- along with 363 total points with just seven points (185 for Rinderknech, 178 for Zverev) separating the two players in the marathon. Zverev, a finalist at the Australian Open this year, has never advanced past the fourth round at Wimbledon. Musetti, a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 2024, lost to qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. For Basilashvili, it was his first win over a Top 10 player in a major and came on a day with temperatures expected to exceed 91 degrees. On another hot day on Monday, Holger Rune and Daniil Medvedev, also seeded in the Top 10, were eliminated in the first round. Basilashvili hit 15 aces among his 48 winners in the two-hour, 25-minute triumph. Musetti, who led the ATP Tour in wins on grass courts in 2024, missed the grass tune-up season after suffering a left adductor injury in his loss to Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinal of the French Open. "I was struggling to feel comfortable on the court from the beginning," Musetti said. "Going and going with the match, I was really losing focus and was not reactive on the ball when I was coming out from the serve. Even in the lateral movements, which normally I know how to move, today seems like I never played on this surface. A really bad performance I would say." The loss was Musetti's third in his career in the first round at Wimbledon. Sinner had no trouble with Luca Nardi, beating his fellow Italian 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 in one hour, 48 minutes. He did not face a break point and had 28 winners and 17 unforced errors compared to 19 and 33, respectively, for Nardi. "I'm very happy to come back here. It's such a special place for me," Sinner said in his on-court interview. "Playing against an Italian is for us very unfortunate, but one has to go through, so I'm happy that it is me. The atmosphere as always is amazing, thanks so much. I know it's very hot, very humid. I don't remember the last time it was this weather in London." Sinner, a three-time major winner, is looking for his first Wimbledon title. No. 5 seed Taylor Fritz completed Monday's suspended match, coming from two sets down to defeat France's Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-7 (6), 6-7 (8), 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-4. No. 10 Ben Shelton also avoided the upset bug, defeating Australia's Alex Bolt 6-4, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4). No. 11 seed Alex de Minaur of Australia and No. 13 Tommy Paul of the United States also advanced with straight-set wins over Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain and Johannus Monday of Great Britain, respectively. Paul and de Minaur both reached the quarterfinals in 2024. Czech Jakub Mensik, the No. 15 seed, joined fellow seeds Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria (No. 19), Czech Tomas Machac (No. 21) and Flavio Cobolli of Italy (No. 22) in advancing to the second round. Other winners Thursday were Lorenzo Sonego of Italy, Hungary's Fabian Marozsan, Sebastian Ofner of Austria, Arthur Cazaux of France, Pedro Martinez of Spain and Australia's Aleksandar Vukic. Also victorious were Jaume Munar of Spain, Daniel Evans of Great Britain, Jesper De Jong of the Netherlands, August Holmgren of Denmark, Corentin Moutet of France, Croatia's Marin Cilic, Rinky Hijikata of Australia and American Reilly Opelka. Argentina's Mariano Navone defeated Denis Shapovalov of Canada, the No. 27 seed, in four sets. Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia ousted American Alex Michelsen, the No. 30 seed, after winning a fifth-set tiebreaker. --Field Level Media

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July 01, 2025

Two more men's Top 10 seeds crash out at Wimbledon

Two more men's Top 10 seeds crash out at Wimbledon No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev and No. 7 Lorenzo Musetti became the latest top seeds to ...

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Republicans ignore debt worry as they push forward on Trump tax-cut bill

Republicans ignore debt worry as they push forward on Trump tax-cut bill

By David Morgan, Bo Erickson and Davide Barbuscia WASHINGTON (Reuters) -As President Donald Trump's Republicans push ahead on a sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that nonpartisan analysts say could add $3.3 trillion to the nation's debt over the next decade, they're taking a new approach - denying there is anything to worry about. Instead, they argue that extending and adding to tax cuts signed into law by Trump in 2017 during his first term - which were set to sunset in 2025 to limit their hit to the deficit - will not drive the debt higher. Independent analysts and investors said the approach, which follows years of growing government debt under both parties, threatens to erode the country's fiscal health and further sap confidence in financial markets, already shaken by Moody's move in May to strip the U.S. of its top-tier AAA rating. The bill, passed by the Senate on Tuesday and which House of Representatives Republican leaders aim to pass later this week, will also raise the federal government's self-imposed debt ceiling by $5 trillion, averting the risk of a disastrous default on the nation's $36.2 trillion in debt sometime this summer. A handful of Republican deficit hawks have said that fact alone undercuts their party's argument that the bill does not add to the debt. "They are effectively moving the goal posts and making it much easier to run these incredible deficits ad infinitum," said Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist and head of global bonds at PGIM Fixed Income, which manages bond funds worth around $860 billion as of March. "That should really create concern in the market about these ongoing large budget deficits." Democrats - effectively sidelined by a Republican maneuver that bypasses normal chamber rules requiring 60 of the 100 senators to agree on most legislation - have blasted the Republican argument as chicanery. They say the bill, which would also lift taxes on tips and overtime, and boost spending on the military and border security while cutting spending on Medicaid and food assistance, will disproportionately help the wealthy and burden lower-income Americans. "It is fakery. The budget numbers are a fraud, but the deficits will be very real. The prospect of a catastrophic debt spiral is very real," Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said on the Senate floor on Monday. 'PROTECTING THEIR WALLETS' Republican Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo argued that extending the 2017 tax cuts will not add to the debt. "If you don't raise taxes, you're not changing the tax code, you're making it bring in the same revenue that it brought in before," said Crapo, of Idaho. "You're not increasing the deficit, you're protecting their wallets." Republicans also called Democrats hypocritical for accusing them of driving the deficit higher, noting that during President Joe Biden's term the then-Democratic-controlled Congress passed costly legislation using the same fast-track maneuver to circumvent the 60-vote threshold. Senate Republicans said their current policy accounting approach is necessary to make the tax cuts permanent to provide certainty for businesses and investors, something Trump demanded during the 2024 campaign. Their approach is backed by business lobbyists including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "That's a good thing for the American people. That's a good thing for the economy," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a floor speech. The bond market has shown signs of worry about the bill not passing in time to raise the debt ceiling, which would risk a devastating default. In recent weeks, the interest rate on some Treasury debt due in August has risen more than yields of short-term Treasury bills coming due around the same time, a sign investors are nervous. This also happened in 2023, when Congress reached a last-minute deal to avoid what would have been a catastrophic default. As Republicans have pushed forward on a bill expected to drive the debt higher, Trump has stepped up his campaign against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, repeatedly urging him to slash U.S. interest rates to 1%, a move that would dull the bill's deficit effects. DEEPENING DEFICITS If the legislation now passes the House and gets signed into law by Trump, independent analysts warn that Americans can look forward to growing deficits, rising interest rates, waning economic vitality and mounting debt - if not an outright dislocation in U.S. bond markets. "Republicans can spin it any way they want, but ultimately we're heading towards deficits of $4 trillion within a decade," said Jessica Riedl, a former Senate Republican aide who is now a senior fellow at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute. U.S. government debt interest payments have surged over the past few years, going from about $500 billion in 2020 to over $1.1 trillion last year. Analysts and investors warn of a longer-term danger from the precedent set by the Senate bill, saying it provides a template that both parties can use in coming years to hide the cost of legislative priorities that expand the debt and deficits. Shai Akabas, vice president of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, warned that the alternative Republican baseline marks a dangerous new chapter in American political rhetoric and calls into question the readiness of political leaders to operate transparently. "We have, I believe, entered a realm where there is no longer a consistent set of facts or independent sources that are being used," Akabas told Reuters. "It makes it very difficult for the American public to understand what the consequences of legislation are going to be." (Editing by Scott Malone and Nia Williams)

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July 01, 2025

Republicans ignore debt worry as they push forward on Trump tax-cut bill

Republicans ignore debt worry as they push forward on Trump tax-cut bill By David Morgan, Bo Erickson and Davide Barbuscia WASHINGTON (Reut...

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