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- School choice survives and remains in senate bill
OU Advocacy thanks senator Ted Cruz for fighting for school choice to help all American families.
Agudah email: Earlier today, the United States Senate voted to include a permanent and unlimited scholarship tax credit in the budget reconciliation bill.
The groundbreaking school choice proposal survived two attempts to eliminate it and was forced to be revised, but the bottom line for you, it’s still in!
If passed, we expect this credit to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in K-12 scholarships for our communities alone! The revised version allows every taxpayer to receive a credit of up to $1700 and removed the annual cap on donations among other changes. This means that if every person and every community comes together to contribute towards the chinuch of the next generation, we can raise hundreds of millions of dollars in tuition scholarship funds each year at no cost to the donors. The bill now moves back to the House for a vote before it can be sent to the President for his signature. The tax credit would take effect January 2027.
- U.S. Senate passes Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" 51-50 with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. It will now be sent to the House of Representatives and if it passes there, to President Trump to sign.
- TRUMP pres conference today
"The people of NYC would be crazy to vote for the Communist Mamdani"
"Elon Musk is upset over losing the EV mandate"
"We could have split the Big Beautiful Bill up but we'll get more this way. I think we're gonna do okay"
- John Thune says Senate Republicans have a deal with Lisa Murkowski to pass Trump megabill’
- Cops pulling Iverson cars in Jackson om S. New Peospect rd.
- Oif Simchas: Last night in the surrounding Lakewood area there were 20 weddings besides for their local lakewood halls there were smaller weddings in other halls and venues as well as a few in tents in Jackson addison park and Bellworks שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל
-Walmart will be competing with Amazon prime day and announced they will have deal from July 8.- 13 Amazon extends Prime day this year for 4 days from July 8-11
- New hall in Lakewood held its first wedding last night and the 2nd adjacent hall will be ready in 6 weeks see video below
- Prroperty Taxes to increase for Lakewood homewoners average $600 a year
Lakewood homeowners face hundreds of dollars in new property taxes under proposed budgets The $298 million township spending plan, released on June 26, includes a 12% tax increase and the hiring of 55 more township employees.App reports
The average homeowner will be paying an additional 500 more a year besides for more increases from the BOE and fire dept which could be an additional $200.
Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles said state aid is well below what it should be as the fourth most-populated municipality.Most of the new municipal staff will be added to the Department of Public Works, with 27 new hires, and the police department, which is adding 15 new officers and other staffers'. Officials also blamed Trump for cutting down on federal funds and less state grants to Lakewood The township received nearly $14 million less in federal and state grant money, including a $6 million reduction in federal grants that officials blamed in part on President Donald Trump’s budget cuts for assistance to cities. APP
- A undated letter has surfaced from Rav Yiosroel Reisman Rav Ari Marburgur and Rav Yonnason Binnyomin Weiss shlita that they were asked by the Lakewood Rosh hayeshiva to delve into the sugya pertaining to the peak bais din on kehuna but for personal reasons have declined to get involve and not the fault of either side as there was no hesitation at all from both sides and no one is to blame.
- A house in Lakewood has hit the open market with a listing price of $7,9 million located in the. Brook Hill area.
-REPORTER: "Are you going to deport Elon Musk?"
TRUMP: "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies."
- Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlita was asked in what should people be mechazek these days. He said men should avoid bittul Torah and women should let the men learn and not cause them bittul Torah. Single girls should strengthen in Emunah.
- Gov. Phil Murphy signed the state budget shortly before midnight, a new, record $58.8 billion state budget. The budget is backed by higher taxes on gambling, smoking, and high-end real estate sales in New Jersey.
The budget is $727 million than the proposed plan Murphy introduced in February, and spends $1.5 billion more in taxpayer money than it collects in revenue.
The final budget also included about $500 million in last-minute pet or “pork” projects or in communities that are Democratic strongholds.
- The new budget includes an unexpected handout to the nursing home industry that was quietly slipped into the measure. It blocks reforms aimed at improving poor-performing nursing homes.
- The realty transfer fee will double from 1% to 2% on homes and commercial properties sold for $2 million to $2.5 million. The fees will rise to 2.5% on homes sold for $2.5 million to $3 million. For homes that sell for $3 million, the fee will triple to 3%. And for homes that sell for more than $3.5 million, the fee will go up to 3.5%. The higher fees are projected to net the state $282 million.
Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Ocean, urged his colleagues to vote no because of the realty fees. With “15% to 20% of homes in New Jersey are valued at $1 million or more...All you are really doing is hurting 1 in 5 New Jerseyans right now and grabbing more money out of the pockets.
Assemblyman Schnall voted yes.
- Trump: Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!
- Giyus: Starting this August, 78,000 Charedi yeshiva students will be under conscription orders - a huge number that covers almost the entire population of yeshiva students of conscription age. The IDF began sending another 54,000 orders to the Haredim today. These orders will be added to the 24,000 orders that have already been sent, and thus the "pool" of Charedim who did not receive draft orders will be emptied.