A Monumental Victory, Reining in Tyranny & The BBB – Top 3 Takeaways – June 30th, 2025 - Driven By Braman Motorcars
Takeaway #1: A monumental victory
There have been so many for President Trump recently, when you hear of Trump talking up a monumental victory, you might be left wondering which win he’s addressing. Is he talking about ending Iran’s nuclear program (and the related war)? Or is it about getting NATO countries to pay their fair share for military defense under the alliance? Maybe it’s the Chinese trade deal coming together? Perhaps it could be about the OBBB? He could be talking about the S&P 500 reaching record highs as we’re set to close out the first half of the year? Maybe Trump’s monumental victory is about the economy generally? After all, President Trump has had ‘monumental wins’ with all of those things over the past week. But remarkably, as President Trump works at record speed to Make America Great Again, Again, Trump’s “monumental win” comment came after his administration's huge wins at the United States Supreme Court. As Trump said on Friday, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. And they most certainly did as the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, put an end to the unconstitutional abuse of anti-American, post-constitutional district court judges. To date there have been 303 lawsuits filed against President Trump’s administration – or in other words an average of about two lawsuits per day. Of them only 12 have been closed as left-wing groups, seek left-wing activists in robes, who’ve most commonly pretended – that they – low level federal district court judges are as powerful as the President of the United States. It was always an obvious and insane argument. But nevertheless, leftist activists in robes with TDS had partially or fully blocked 97 of President Trump’s 164 executive orders thus far (with another 75 cases pending – or in other words more cases than outstanding orders) and issued 40 nationwide injunctions. As Justice Amy Coney Barret wrote in the Court’s opinion: The injunctions before us today reflect a more recent development: district courts asserting the power to prohibit enforcement of a law or policy against anyone. These injunctions—known as “universal injunctions”—likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts. And with that the Supreme Court...
Takeaway #2: Put an end to tyranny of the district court judges
...for now. What we’ll likely see attempted going forward is an effort to obtain class-action status for lawsuits and left-wing states pursuing these cases to try to gain as much jurisdiction for rulings as possible. But nevertheless, it was indeed a monumental victory for not just Trump, but for the country – as he indicated. But of course there were other monumental SCOTUS victories last week as well including the court upholding Tennessee’s law banning child mutilation (aka “gender affirming care”), religious liberty as the court ruled in favor of parents pulling their kids out of classes that indoctrinate children with the homosexual alphabet agenda, a ruling that’s doubly rewarding to have come down during “Pride” month, speaking of a time in which immoral things and indoctrination is imposed throughout this country.
Takeaway #3: You down with the BBB?
Perhaps most importantly, following the Senate’s all-night reading of the theoretically ascetically pleasing bill, and the ongoing Senate debate that’s spilled into today, is your House Representative down with the OBBBA? Given that the House version of the bill passed by exactly one vote the first time, there’s no margin to spare. The biggest changes to the bill between the House version and the Senate’s final bill are these: Tighter Medicaid work requirements, and thus greater savings; the House version raised the SALT cap for deductions from $10,000 to $40,000 and made it permanent – the senate version kept the $40k cap but made it temporary (expiring after 2030). The senate increased the standard deduction for seniors over 65 up to $6k per year, which is $2k higher than the House, and it also would increase the debt ceiling by $5 trillion – which is $1 trillion more than the House. The senate version fades out solar tax credits more slowly than the House version. The Senate version includes 20% less in school choice grants than the House version, while leaving the Pell grant program intact. There’s far more to the story, but that's the gist and in particular the points of particular political interest. None of those changes are major deviations from the original bill, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be taken that way by some GOPers who were reluctant yea votes the first time around. Notably the senate version, based on the latest CBO scoring, would theoretically run up the federal deficit by $500 - $800 billion more than the original House bill over the next decade (although that’s due to expanded tax breaks that many conservatives will argue will produce a higher growth economy and thus more revenue for the Treasury). That’s a far cry from where the conversation started in the senate, which was that they’d seek to save more than the House. So where does the House stand? We know it’s divided along party lines. It can’t be more divided than the loss of three Republicans on the GOP side. Whether your House Representative is down with the BBB could determine whether President Trump receives what to him would be his ultimate victory.