Good morning, folks! As I write this, at 7 AM EST, the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is reportedly inches away from the finish line. President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson were whipping votes until 3 in the morning. And while it’s not official – it looks like they’re going to hit the 4th of July deadline.

Housekeeping: There will be no Wake Up Right newsletter tomorrow. I’d like to wish all of the Wake Up Right fam a happy and safe Independence Day.

🇺🇸 Celebrations: President Trump is kicking off the Independence Day celebrations tonight with a campaign style speech at the Iowa State Fiargrounds.

• 📉 6,070 border crossings in June, the lowest on record/

• 💾 Microsoft plans to lay off 9,000 employees

• 📱 55% of parents wish kids grew up without social media

• 🚨 31% of student loans are in 'late-stage delinquency'

• 📈 Trump approval avg: 46.4% approve, 50.2% disapprove

^{Sources: NY Post, CNBC, Statista, The Guardian, RCP}

Obama Judge snubs Supreme Court, issues nationwide ruling on Trump asylum crackdown

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has blocked President Trump’s executive order halting most asylum claims at the southern border – just days after the Supreme Court ruled that judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions.

Back up: On Trump's first day in office, he issued a proclamation declaring an "invasion" on the southern border – triggering emergency authority under the Constitution, and allowing him to suspend physical entry and block asylum claims.

The details: Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, ruled that Trump’s asylum proclamation exceeded presidential authority and said he was trying to create “an alternative immigration system.”

Hold up: Didn’t the Supreme Court rule last week that federal judges can’t issue nationwide injunctions against the president’s orders?

• Yes – but this judge is playing cute with the law. Instead of a nationwide injunction, he granted class-action status to all current and future illegal aliens who might face deportation, effectively achieving the same result.

What’s the difference? Nationwide injunctions apply to all persons, including people not involved in the lawsuit, nationwide. Class-action applies to defined class members [all illegal aliens in this case].

Justice Alito saw this coming: He wrote a concurrence to the Supreme Court opinion that warned: “[D]district courts should not view today’s decision as an invitation to certify nationwide classes without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23.”

Note the timing: This judge waited until after the Supreme Court had gone on its summer recess to issue this ruling.

Attorney General Pam Bondi reacted to the ruling, writing on X:

• “A rogue district court judge is already trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against nationwide injunctions. The American people see right through this. Our attorneys @thejusticedept will fight this unconstitutional power grab as @POTUS continues to secure our border.”

What happens next? The judge’s ruling is paused for 14 days, giving the Trump administration time to appeal. But the case goes to the D.C. Circuit, stacked with Obama and Biden-appointed judges. An emergency appeal to the Supreme Court is likely.

Zoom out: Illegal immigration has effectively halted since Trump took office. June saw just 6,070 border crossings – the lowest number ever recorded – and zero were released into the U.S.

Big picture: The cornerstone of Trump’s 2024 campaign was shutting down the southern border and deporting illegal aliens who, under the Biden regime, were allowed to wreak havoc in American communities. This judge is now attempting to unilaterally upend those efforts.

[Source: Daily Wire, National Review]

🤝 President Trump announced a new trade agreement with Vietnam that will impose 20–40% tariffs on Vietnamese exports to the U.S., while granting American goods full tariff-free access to Vietnam's market. Read more.

🧑‍⚖️ Sean “Diddy” Combs, the rapper accused of sexual abuse against women and forced drug-dazed “freak offs,” was acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking but found guilty of lesser charges. Read more.

💉 The FDA updated the warning labels on Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to include heart risks, particularly in young males. Read more.

🇨🇳 The FBI blocked an investigation into Chinese efforts to meddle in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden because it would have made then-Director Christopher Wray look bad, documents released by the bureau show. Read more.

🚀 The U.S. has halted shipments of air-defense interceptors and other weapons to Ukraine, and is instead redirecting them to beef up Pentagon stocks. Read more.

📺️ Primetime MSNBC ratings declined 15% between April-June compared to the same time last year. CNN's primetime numbers dropped 13% in the same period. Read more.

📦️ Amazon is on track to have more robots than human employees in its warehouses. The company currently operates over one million robots across its facilities. Read more.

🏳️‍🌈 Stephen Ireland, a Trump-hating founder of an LGBT organization, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old boy. Read more.

✅ The family of the Colorado terrorist who used homemade firebombs to injured 8 pro-Israel women last month can be deported, a federal judge ruled. Read more.

🎥 A fireworks warehouse in California explodes. Watch.

🎥 Brett Cooper calls out the Hags on The View for claiming that Trump doesn't like "strong" women. Watch.

🎥 Bryan Kohberger admits to slaughtering 4 Idaho college students while they slept. Watch.

🎥 Scott Jennings OBLITERATES democrats on the lie that the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will cut Medicaid. Watch.

🎥 Women got deported to the Dominican Republic and VLOGS about coming back illegally. Watch.

🎥 Trump has words for Biden, Obama, AND Bush. Watch.

🎥 Go long: Treasury Secretary breaks down how important the Big, Beautiful Bill is to Trump’s economic plan. Watch. [11min]

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