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Wall Street Journal: Hawley, other GOP lawmakers could sink Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ tax bill (avoid Wall Street Journal paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

Brad & John Show (104.5 FM St. Charles/Franklin/Warren Counties), Monday: Josh Hawley for President 2028 – the Medicaid defender (link opens at 14:00 mark)

CBS News: Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker end sit-in protest against GOP budget on Capitol steps after fewer than 13 hours; Missouri’s Emanuel Cleaver among “additional lawmakers who joined in the concluding hours of the sit-in”

Brad & John Show, Monday: Emanuel Cleaver and trans guy shuffle over to Capitol protest (link opens at 9:50 mark)

Missourinet: St. Louis-based “healthy aging” group in panic mode over Trump budget

P-D: St. Louis Zoo and Botanical Garden lose federal money for research on animals, plants (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: St. Louis feds crack down on illegal immigration. Dozens of cases filed here. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: St. Louis faces tighter ozone rules after air quality fails to improve (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Brad & John Show, Friday: High spots from Eric Schmitt’s Fox News interview on woke universities and channeling Dean Wormer (link opens at 14:20 mark)

This Week in Missouri Politics: Senator Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) joins Scott Faughn to discuss the budget process (0:30), education funding and the foundation formula (1:30), outcome of tax cuts (7:15), Proposition A (9:30), Dr. Tom Prater nomination of state Board of Education (12:10); panel of Reps. Cameron Parker (R-Campbell), Stephanie Boykin (D-Florissant) and Mike Steinmeyer (R-Sugar Creek) join Missouri Times Editor Jake Kroesen on veterans legislation (17:00), Proposition A (21:00), education funding and foundation formula (24:00), who won the week: House administrative assistants, abortion protesters in the House chamber, Missouri Supreme Court banana cream pie chef, Ashland alderman Bryce Beal (27:00)

Missourinet: State budget to take center stage this week in Missouri Senate

Brad & John Show, Friday: The best actionable lesson of the legislative session, via Karla May on #TWMPDaily (link opens at 11:15 mark)

Missouri Independent: Missouri teen spent her life in foster care. Now she’s fighting the state to keep her baby

Brad & John Show, Monday: Dave Schatz’s crackdown on Torch Electronics gaming machines (link opens at 1:45 mark)

Brad & John Show, Friday: FACEPALM: Brad uses ChatGPT to write Mike Elam St. Charles County campaign kickoff story, fails to proofread content (0:00); Elam contacts Brad about wildly inaccurate summary (2:00)

Brad & John Show, Friday: Popular weatherman Anthony Slaughter fired from KSDK: recap of Slaughter’s side of the story (2:00), KMOV vs. KSDK content arms race, and feeding the neverending content machine (6:45); Bill Eigel contacts Brad about artificial intelligence search results (14:20)

KC Star op-ed: Jasper Engines President Zack Bawel: Josh Hawley’s bill would make it easier and cheaper to fix our own vehicles

Missouri Independent op-ed: Barbara Shelly: Republicans couldn’t live with Medicaid expansion. Now they can’t live without it

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