Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Sunday he will not seek reelection next year, an abrupt announcement that came one day after he staked out his opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package because of its reductions to health care programs.His decision creates a political opportunity for Democrats seeking to bolster their numbers in the 2026 midterm elections, creating a wide-open Senate race in a state that has long been a contested battleground. It could also make Tillis a wild card in a party where few lawmakers are willing to risk Trump’s wrath by opposing his agenda or actions. Trump had already been threatening him with a primary challenge, and posted Sunday that Tillis’ announcement was “Great News!”“In Washington over the last few years, it’s become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species,” Tillis said in a lengthy statement.Tillis said he was proud of his career in public service but acknowledged the difficult political environment for those who buck their party and go it alone.“I look forward to having the pure freedom to call the balls and strikes as I see fit and representing the great people of North Carolina to the best of my ability,” Tillis said in a statement.Republicans hold a 5347 edge in the Senate.Trump, in social posts, had berated Tillis for being one of two Republican senators who voted on Saturday night against advancing the massive tax bill.The Republican president accused Tillis of seeking publicity with his “no” vote and threatened to campaign against him, accusing the senator of doing nothing to help his constituents after last year’s devastating floods in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene.“Tillis is a talker and complainer, NOT A DOER,” Trump wrote.The announcement from the two-term senator surprised senior Republicans with its timing, but not necessarily the substance. Tillis had planned to announce his reelection plans later this year, likely September at the latest, but had been heavily leaning in favor of retiring, according to a person close to the senator.In the hours before his announcement, Tillis was weighing two questions: whether Trump and the White House would give him freedom to campaign with some independence, and whether Tillis would have the full protection of Senate Republican leaders, said the person, who was granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics.The GOP leadership’s decision to forge ahead with cuts to Medicaid that Tillis repeatedly warned would devastate North Carolina, and the president’s Truth Social post calling for a primary challenger to the senator made it clear to him that the answers to those two questions were no.Tillis then decided he would announce his retirement, with the thinking that it would remove any ambiguity whether he would flip his opposition to the GOP’s sweeping tax bill.He informed Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Saturday night of his decision to retire.The North Carolina Republican Party chairman, Jason Simmons, said the party wishes Tillis well and “will hold this seat for Republicans in 2026.” Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the campaign arm for Senate Republicans, did not mention Tillis in a statement but said the party’s winning streak in North Carolina will continue. Scott noted that Trump won the state three times.Democrats expressed confidence about their prospects.Former Rep. Wiley Nickel, who announced his candidacy in April, said he was ready for any Republican challenger.“I’ve flipped a tough seat before and we’re going to do it again,” Nickel said in a statement.Some said Tillis’ decision is another sign of the dramatic transformation of the Republican Party under Trump, with few lawmakers critical of the president or his agenda remaining in office.It “proves there is no space within the Republican Party to dissent over taking health care away from 11.8 million people,” said Lauren French, spokesperson for the Senate Majority PAC, a political committee aligned with the chamber’s Democratic members.Tillis rose to prominence in North Carolina when, as a second-term state House member, he quit his IBM consultant job and led the GOP’s recruitment and fundraising efforts in the chamber for the 2010 elections. Republicans won majorities in the House and Senate for the first time in 140 years.Tillis was later elected as state House speaker and helped enact conservative policies on taxes, gun rights, regulations and abortion while serving in the role for four years. He also helped push a state constitutional referendum to ban gay marriage, which was approved by voters in 2012 but was ultimately struck down by the courts as unconstitutional.In 2014, Tillis helped flip control of the U.S. Senate to the GOP after narrowly defeating Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan. During his more than a decade in office, he championed issues such as mental health and substance abuse recovery, Medicaid expansion and support for veterans.As a more moderate Republican, Tillis became known for his willingness to work across the aisle on some issues. That got him into trouble with his party at times, most notably in 2023 when North Carolina Republicans voted to censure him over several matters, including his challenges to certain immigration policies and his gun policy record.“Sometimes those bipartisan initiatives got me into trouble with my own party,” Tillis said, “but I wouldn’t have changed a single one.”
Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Joey Cappelletti in Washington and Makiya Seminera in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.
Ali Swenson and Seung Min Kim, Associated Press
The number of Rite Aid stores marked for closure just hit a grim milestone.
In a bankruptcy court filing last week, the ill-fated pharmacy chain disclosed another 123 locations that will close their doors as it works through its Chapter 11 proceedings and commences with a full wind-down of its operations.
With this latest list, Rite Aid has now marked more than 1,000 locations for closure since it filed for bankruptcy in early May. At the time of its original filing, Rite Aid said it had 1,277 pharmacies in operation.
Previous waves of Rite Aid closures
The shutterings have been happening for several weeks. In previous bankruptcy filings, Rite Aid has posted no fewer than eight notices of store closures, in addition to the initial notice of closures it posted when it first sought Chapter 11 protection. You can find lists of its previous closure notices below:
May 5: 47 initial locations
May 9: 68 additional locations
May 16: 95 additional locations
May 23: 151 additional locations
May 30: 111 additional locations
June 5: 25 additional locations
June 6: 207 additional locations
June 13: 125 additional locations
June 20: 118 locations
June 27: 123 locations (full list below)
What will happen to Rite Aid when this is all over?
Rite Aid is going out of business, meaning all of its stores will either close or be sold to new owners. The company has already sold off most of its prescription files to competitors, including CVS, Walgreens, and Albertsons. CVS has also said it will take over 64 physical Rite Aid locations in three states.
Last week, Rite Aid also named bidders for many of its remaining assets, including its Thrifty ice cream brand, as Fast Company reported. Thrifty’s winning bidder, a limited partnership linked to Monster Energy executives, has so far not said what it plans to do with the brand.
In addition to Thrifty, Rite Aid has identified bidders for dozens of its stores, court documents reveal. A hearing on the sale of these assets is planned for today, “or soon thereafter.”
Which Rite Aid stores were included in the latest closure notice?
Rite Aid listed 123 locations on its ninth notice of closures. The stores span eight states, with California, Pennsylvania, and New York being hit the hardest. Fast Company reached out to Rite Aid to ask about the timeline of the closures. The full list is below:
California
6410 Platt Avenue, West Hills, CA 91307
28100 S Western Avenue, San Pedro, CA 90732
135 Sunset Avenue, Suisun City, CA 94585
1500 Anna Sparks Way Suite D, McKinleyville, CA 95519
48 Robertson Blvd, Chowchilla, CA 93610
262 North Highway 65, Lindsay, CA 93247
17055 Van Buren Boulevard, Riverside, CA 92504
4710 Commons Way, Calabasas, CA 91302
111 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701
3745 East Foothill Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91107
601 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
2819 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588
955 Tamarack Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92008
6455 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95207
200 Fairmont Shopping Center, Pacifica, CA 94044
27177 Highway 189 Suite E, Blue Jay, CA 92317
108 West Anaheim Street, Wilmington, CA 90744
1207 Grand Avenue, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
405 West Imperial Highway, Brea, CA 92821
650 Walnut Avenue, Greenfield, CA 93927
431 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, CA 94925
11096 Jefferson Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230
6420 Rio Linda Blvd, Rio Linda, CA 95673
1201 South Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA 92054
1355 MacArthur Boulevard, San Leandro, CA 94577
802 Beverly Boulevard, Montebello, CA 90640
130 Alamo Plaza, Alamo, CA 94507
12319 South Norwalk Boulevard, Norwalk, CA 90650
1449 East F Street Suite 102, Oakdale, CA 95361
7100 Avenida Encinas, Carlsbad, CA 92011
2424 Spring Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446
2938 West Rosamond Blvd., Rosamond, CA 93560
1237 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502
19205 Sonoma Highway, Sonoma, CA 95476
387 E Avenida De Los Arboles, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
640 Edith Avenue, Corning, CA 96021
8914 Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, CA 91770
8760 19th Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701
1076 West Kern Street, Taft, CA 93268
10465 Sunland Boulevard, Sunland, CA 91040
9482 California City Boulevard, California City, CA 93505
3142 G Street, Merced, CA 95340
Connecticut
1619 Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
30 Germantown Road, Danbury, CT 06810
Maryland
9300 Lakeside Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD 21117
New Hampshire
145 Amherst Street, Nashua, NH 03064
6 South Main Street, Plymouth, NH 03264
53 South Broadway, Salem, NH 03079
73 Exeter Road, Newmarket, NH 03857
New Jersey
702 Browning Road, Brooklawn, NJ 08030
596 Shrewsbury Avenue, Tinton Falls, NJ 07701
354 State Route 57 West, Washington, NJ 07882
10 Lincoln Highway, Edison, NJ 08820
2093 Route 130 N, Burlington, NJ 08016
755 Memorial Pkwy (US Hwy 22), Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
100 Warwick Road, Stratford, NJ 08084
1 North New Prospect Road, Jackson, NJ 08527
1210 Route 130 N Ste 1408, Cinnaminson, NJ 08077
New York
3950 Union Road, Cheektowaga, NY 14225
4407 Military Road, Niagara Falls, NY 14305
804 Route 82, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
1200 Deer Park Avenue, North Babylon, NY 11703
60 Central Avenue, Lancaster, NY 14086
46 Kellogg Road, New Hartford, NY 13413
391 West Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743
511 Hooper Road, Endwell, NY 13760
701 Route 211 East, Middletown, NY 10941
81 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003
214 Central Avenue, Silver Creek, NY 14136
50 Great Neck Road, Great Neck, NY 11021
871 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502
1410 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209
7804 Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14304
5125 Merrick Road, Massapequa Park, NY 11762
1224 East Lovejoy Street, Buffalo, NY 14206
168 North Village Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Pennsylvania
1205 Ben Franklin Highway West, Douglassville, PA 19518
801 South 9th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
3599 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073
4000 Woodhaven Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154
217 South Blakely Street, Dunmore, PA 18512
4965 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
101 Wallace Avenue, Downingtown, PA 19335
77 Reuters Boulevard, Towanda, PA 18848
3601 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129
2501 Banksville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15216
9280 Krewstown Road, Philadelphia, PA 19115
26 West Independence Street, Shamokin, PA 17872
916 State Street, Erie, PA 16501
7615 Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19153
980 East Main Street, Palmyra, PA 17078
4411 Howley Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
1 Ice Cream Alley, Newtown, PA 18940
1328 Chestnut Street, Emmaus, PA 18049
201 Grace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15211
705 W Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
5277 Simpson Ferry Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
262 Connellsville Street, Uniontown, PA 15401
577 South Main Street, Shrewsbury, PA 17361
500 East Lancaster Avenue, Shillington, PA 19607
284 East Lancaster Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096
5707 Easton Road, Pipersville, PA 18947
5675 York Road, New Oxford, PA 17350
820 Main Street, Royersford, PA 19468
925 Merchant Street, Ambridge, PA 15003
44 Kings Village, Minersville, PA 17954
401403 South Main Street, Old Forge, PA 18518
1924 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130
7972 Castor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19152
791 Scranton Carbondale Hwy, Eynon, PA 18403
827 N. Center Street, Corry, PA 16407
7700 Crittenden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19118
1593 Elmira Street, Sayre, PA 18840
105 West Main Street, North East, PA 16428
696 Stoney Hill Road, Yardley, PA 19067
110 Main Street, Hellertown, PA 18055
2411 Columbia Blvd, Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Washington
6602 64th St NE, Marysville, WA 98270
10625 NE 68th St, Kirkland, WA 98033
8862 161st Ave NE, Suite 102, Redmond, WA 98052
17254 140th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058
3130 Simpson Avenue, Hoquiam, WA 98550
100 N 85th St, Seattle, WA 98103
In early June, Dave Margulies, owner and producer of High Sierra Music Festival, was working on a printed pocket guide with a show schedule, which organizers will hand out to attendees of the more than 30-year-old Quincy, California, event.
That there even would be a festival to navigate this year wasn’t a foregone conclusion. Margulies says the festival used to sell about 7,000 tickets annually; in 2023 and 2024, it sold about 4,500 each year. “It almost sent us into bankruptcy,” he says.
Independent festivals like High Sierra have been hit particularly hard, but their main challengeslumping ticket salesis shared by big-name events. Coachellawhich the past few years has welcomed more than 200,000 attendees over its two weekendsused to sell out in just hours. This year, resellers like StubHub had tickets available for less than face value shortly ahead of the event’s first weekend in mid-April. Recent attendance is also less than half of the number who attended the event in 2014.
For 2025, Margulies significantly changed how he curated the lineup to curb costs. He did not book high-dollar headliners like Robert Plant, Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson, who all have played the festival in the past, and instead focused on smaller acts like Molly Tuttle, a Grammy-nominated bluegrass guitarist, and the up-and-coming jam band Dogs in a Pile.
Flagging ticket salesand rising costs for artists and organizersare putting unprecedented pressure on festivals’ bottom line. And in such a challenging environment, smaller festivals are becoming a canary in the coal mine for the larger industry. “This is really a make-or-break year,” Margulies says.
High Sierra, 2024. [Photo: Susan J Weiand]
Rising pricesfor everyone
In 2006 in Chicago, Mike Reed, a drummer and event producer, founded Pitchfork Music Festival with the eponymous digital music site. The initial focus was on booking such indie acts as Andrew Bird and The Decemberists.
The landscape for festivals was really bare, Reed says. He curated the lineup based on Pitchforks best new music lists, and the event grew to attract about 60,000 fans and sold out each year until 2017, when the specialness of the event started to wear off, Reed said.
That’s when the focus shifted to booking larger acts from more genresincluding Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rappermoving away from just indie artists. Reed says that focus, and the accompanying cost of booking big-name artists, led Pitchfork parent Condé Nast to announce in November 2024 that it would be discontinuing the festival.
For a headliner like Lamar in 2014, organizers paid $325,000; a few years earlier, the cost of a headliner was $70,000, Reed says. Those costs have only ballooned further since the pandemic, in part because of how much touring now costs for artists.
A general view of the atmosphere following the cancellation of the 2025 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 13, 2025 in Manchester, Tennessee. [Photo: Josh Brasted/WireImage/Getty Images]
Hank Sacks, a booking agent with Partisan Arts, which works with artists like Jack Johnson, and Big Head Todd and the Monsters, says renting a tour bus now costs twice as much as it did before the pandemic, said. That expense then factors into artists’ appearance fees. Those costs have trickled down to the consumer, said Sacks.
Insurance premiums also increased between 25% and 40%, depending on the event, according to Steven Perlini, president of Wise Risk, which has insured many of the largest festivals in the United States.
In 2015, a three-day general admission ticket to Coachella cost $375. This year, a ticket to the first weekend cost $649 and for the second weekend, $599.
Those costs could continue to rise because of climate change, which has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. This year, Bonnaroo organizers canceled the festival after one day this year because the area had received one inch of rain, and forecasts suggested ongoing precipitation would make campingand leavingharder if the festival kept fans around.
If scientists forecast proves accurate and the amount of drenching rains and wildfires increases, that would lead to higher rates, higher deductibles, and more restrictive policy conditions, and those costs would then trickle down to consumers, Perlini said
If your costs are going up, the only way to make it profitable is for you to increase your revenues by charging more for tickets,” Perlini said.
[Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images]
Sales slump, festivals close
In 2023, there were at least 48 festival cancellations, according to Music Festival Wizard, a publication that tracks the events. The next year, there were 95 cancellations, some of them at that last minute, leaving fans angry. So far this year, there have been at least 45.
Those who still play, organize, and attend festivals say events being canceled due to low sales take away the opportunity for like-minded music fans to come together around their favorite artists.
I’m a huge fan of making a pilgrimage to distant locales because it just changes the way that you witness the world, and that’s what the music festival is there to do,” says Grace Potter, a Grammy-nominated musicians who has played festivals of all sizes, and organizes Grand North Point festival in Vermont.
The cause is often the samelow sales making the cost of putting on an event untenable.
Thievery Corporation performs during the 2016 High Sierra Music Festival at Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, California. [Photo: C Flanigan/WireImage/Getty Images]
One bright spot has been EDM. Fueled by 6% year-over-year growth in 2024, the electronic music industry hit $12.9 billion last year, according to entertainment analysis firm Midia Research. Flagship festival Electric Daisy Belgian festival Tomorrowland sold out this year, and U.S. events Ultra and EDC regularly sell out well in advance.
But across the wider industry, Midia notes that the global music industry’s revenue growth slowed in 2024, due in part to a slowdown in ticket sales after an initial post-pandemic boom.
Consumers have less disposable income to spend on entertainment, so its put the festivals under a lot of pressure, says Vito Valentinetti, Music Festival Wizard cofounder and editor-in-chief.
Music fans’ budgets have tightened amid a 55% increase in the cost of general admission festival tickets between 2014 and 2024an issue that’s been exacerbated by the rising cost of doing business for artists and organizers.
Whereas owners of a festival like Coachella can weather a downturn, some of them just dont have the money to ride it out, said Valentinetti, of Music Festival Wizard.
Ahead of this weekend, Margulies, of High Sierra, was hopeful the event would once again sell 4,500 tickets as he spent less on artists to keep tickets at their $392 price point.
Despite telling Fast Company in early June that he had no plans to cancel the event, Margulies seemed to flirt with the idea of canceling by the middle of the month, telling a local news outlet that record-low ticket sales forced him to reconsider. The story helped sell enough tickets that he decided to continue with this year’s event.
I’m just hoping that we can make ends meet so we get to do it again next year,” he says.
U.S. Senate Republicans pushed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill forward on Sunday in a marathon weekend session even as a nonpartisan forecaster said it would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade.
The estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of the bill’s hit to the $36.2 trillion federal debt is about $800 billion more than the version passed last month in the House of Representatives.
Senators are scheduled to start voting on a potentially long list of amendments to the bill beginning at 9 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) Monday.
Republicans, who have long voiced concern about growing U.S. deficits and debt, have rejected the CBO’s longstanding methodology to calculate the cost of legislation.
Democrats, meanwhile, hope the latest, eye-widening figure could stoke enough anxiety among fiscally minded conservatives to get them to buck their party, which controls both chambers of Congress.
Republicans are doing something the Senate has never, never done before, deploying fake math and accounting gimmicks to hide the true cost of the bill,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said as debate opened on Sunday. “Republicans are about to pass the single most expensive bill in U.S. history, to give tax breaks to billionaires while taking away Medicaid, SNAP benefits and good paying jobs for millions of people.”
The Senate only narrowly advanced the tax-cut, immigration, border and military spending bill in a procedural vote late on Saturday, voting 5149 to open debate on the 940-page megabill.
Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, one of two Republicans who voted to block the bill, explained his position in a speech to the Senate, saying White House aides had failed to give Trump proper advice about the legislation’s Medicaid cuts.
“What do I tell 663,00 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding’s not there anymore,” Tillis said, referring to his constituents.
Trump on social media hailed Saturday’s vote as a “great victory” for his “great, big, beautiful bill.” In a separate post on Sunday, he said: “We will make it all up, times 10, with GROWTH, more than ever before.”
In an illustration of the depths of the divide within the Republican Party over the bill, Tillis said he would not seek re-election next year, after Trump threatened to back a primary challenger in retribution for Tillis’ Saturday night vote against the bill.
On Sunday, Trump celebrated Tillis’ announcement as “Great News!” on Truth Social and issued a warning to fellow Republicans who have concerns over the bill. “REMEMBER, you still have to get reelected. Dont go too crazy!” Trump wrote in a post.
Tillis’ North Carolina seat is one of the few Republican Senate seats seen as vulnerable in next year’s midterm elections.
Trump wants the bill passed before the July 4 Independence Day holiday. While that deadline is one of choice, lawmakers will face a far more serious deadline later this summer when they must raise the nation’s self-imposed debt ceiling or risk a devastating default on $36.2 trillion in debt.
HITS TO BENEFITS
Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, said this legislation would come to haunt Republicans if it gets approved, predicting 16 million Americans would lose their health insurance.
“Many of my Republican friends know . . . they’re walking the plank on this and we’ll see if those who’ve expressed quiet consternation will actually have the courage of their convictions,” Warner told CBS News’ “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
The legislation has been the sole focus of a marathon weekend congressional session marked by political drama, division and lengthy delays as Democrats seek to slow the legislation’s path to passage.
Schumer called for the entire text of the bill to be read on the Senate floor, a process that began before midnight Saturday and ran well into Sunday afternoon. Following up to 20 hours of debate on the legislation, the Senate will enter an amendment session, known as a “vote-a-rama,” before voting on passage. Lawmakers said they hoped to complete work on the bill on Monday.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the other Republican “no” vote, opposed the legislation because it would raise the federal borrowing limit by an additional $5 trillion.
The megabill would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump’s main legislative achievement during his first term as president, cut other taxes and boost spending on the military and border security.
Senate Republicans, who reject the CBO’s estimates on the cost of the legislation, are set on using an alternative calculation method that does not factor in costs from extending the 2017 tax cuts. Outside tax experts, like Andrew Lautz from the nonpartisan think tank Bipartisan Policy Center, call it a “magic trick.”
Using this calculation method, the Senate Republicans budget bill appears to cost substantially less and seems to save $500 billion, according to the BPC analysis.
If the Senate passes the bill, it will then return to the House of Representatives for final passage before Trump can sign it into law. The House passed its version of the bill last month.
Bo Erickson and Phil Stewart, Reuters
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working to pass President Trumps controversial One Big Beautiful Bill Act. A marathon session of voting in the U.S. Senate, known in Washington as a “vote-o-rama,” is expected to begin on Monday, according to CNN. But just what is in the bill, when will it become law, and how do Americans feel about it? Heres what you need to know.
Whats in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
This isnt an easy one to answer simply because the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is so large. In its current form, it spans around 940 pages and is packed with everything from tax breaks for the rich to changes to Medicare to defense spending.
Few people have actually read the entire One Big Beautiful Bill Actincluding many of the Senators who are expected to vote on it this week. And thats a bad thing, because when new laws are this sprawling and the changes so sweeping, they often result in unforeseen negative impacts.
There are at least hundreds of changes to U.S. law in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but some of the most dramatic changes revolve around tax cuts for the rich, largely paid for by cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program designed to provide healthcare to Americas most poor and needy.
Citing estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), PBS has a good rundown of some of the major elements of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Some of those elements are:
$3.8 trillion in tax cuts, with the wealthy and corporations benefiting the most.
$350 billion for border and national security spending.
Medicaid and other government healthcare and social services cuts would result in 10.9 million Americans losing their health insurance coverage, and 3 million Americans losing their access to food stamps.
The elimination of a $200 tax on gun silencers.
A provision that would deter individual U.S. states from regulating artificial intelligence.
$40 million in funding to establish a National Garden of American Heroes.
When will the One Big Beautiful Bill Act become law?
There are several remaining steps that the bill needs to go through to become law. Earlier this month, the House passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, Senate Republicans disagreed with many elements of the House version of the bill and have been making revisions to it in their chamber. Those revisions are ongoing.
Meanwhile, President Trump has also set an arbitrary timeline for when he desired the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to be passed. The deadline Trump stated is Friday, July 4.
Yet it is precisely this artificial deadline that has many worrying that lawmakers will not take the time they need to fully examine the bill’s elements and consider the long-term consequences it may have on Americans.
Republicans, of course, may still not agree on a new version of the bill, which could mean that Trumps July 4 deadline could come and go. For now, here’s what you may be able to expect as far as a timeline this week, per CNN:
Republicans need to get their party holdouts to support the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as it currently stands, or make changes to it that will satisfy the holdouts. This process may be completed on Monday, or it could stretch for several days.
Meanwhile, Democrats, who all universally oppose the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will have their clerks read out the bill in Congress; this is estimated to take 10 to 15 hours due to the length of the bill and is being used as a stalling tactic. If any Republican Senators stick around for the bills reading, it may be the first time some of them have actually heard what is in the entire 940-page bill.
A debate on the bill will follow the Democrats’ reading of the bill.
A vote-a-rama will then take place on the bill. This is where Senators vote on amendments to it. A lot of this vote-a-rama will involve political theater, and as CNN notes, Democrats will likely use Republican Senators’ votes during this process in campaign attack ads during the midterm elections next year.
Finally, there will be a vote on passing the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. No Democrats are expected to support the bill, and there may even be a few Republican holdouts, but it is believed that Republicans will still have enough votes in the Senate to pass it.
However, just because the Senate passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act doesnt mean it becomes law. The bill would then need to return to the House for a vote. If it passes the House, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would then become law with the president’s signature.
As for whether all this can be accomplished by July 4, that remains to be seen.
What do Americans think of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Most Americans dont like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including many Republicans and even self-identified MAGA supporters.
The nonpartisan nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released the results of its comprehensive polling on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on June 17. Those results showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans viewed the bill unfavorably.
When KFF asked Americans if they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the results were clear:
64% of Americans have an unfavorable view of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
That unfavorability number jumps to 85% of Americans who identify as Democrats
Among Independent voters, 71% of Americans view the bill unfavorably
But whats really interesting is the view of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act from Americans who identify themselves as Republicans:
While KFF found that just 36% of Republicans view the One Big Beautiful Bill Act unfavorably, that number is massively different depending on whether the Republican identifies themselves as a MAGA supporter or a non-MAGA supporter.
Yet even among MAGA supporters, more than a quarter of them27%view the One Big Beautiful Bill Act unfavorably.
And when it comes to non-MAGA Republicans, the numbers are much worse. A full 66% of non-MAGA Republicans view the One Big Beautiful Bill Act unfavorably.
If so many American voters across parties view the One Big Beautiful Bill Act unfavorably, why are Republicans rushing to pass the bill? Thats a question theyll have to answer to their Republican voters during next years Midterm elections.
As organizations embed artificial intelligence into business operations, the demands on leaders are changing. Todays teams arent made up of people alonetheyre increasingly hybrid, with humans and AI working side by side. This shift has profound implications on how decisions are made, how roles are defined, and how trust is built.
Simply put, as the world changes, leaders need to change, tooand fast. To succeed, leaders must adapt their approachrethinking how they structure teams, develop talent, communicate change, and build cultures of continuous learning. Those who do will unlock new levels of agility and innovation. And those who dont will pay a steep price.
Unsure where to start? Here are five essential leadership shifts to make now in order to lead effectively in an era when yesterdays playbook no longer applies.
1. STRUCTURE FOR SHARED INTELLIGENCE, NOT JUST SHARED TASKS
Leadership today isnt about controlits about enabling collaboration between people and intelligent systems. As AI agents become more capable and autonomous, leaders must influence human behavior and how AI operates within the team.
That means defining when AI leads and when people intervene, ensuring AI decisions are understandable, and creating clear escalation paths. The goal isnt to micromanage AIits to design environments where humans and machines both contribute.
By investing in the core operating processes and relational dynamics of team performance, youll turn your AI players into an all-star team.
Ask yourself: How can I lead effectively when Im not the onlyor even the smartestagent in the room?
2. RECALIBRATE HOW YOU LEAD WHEN AI JOINS THE TEAM
If you want people to engage with AI, you need to treat it as an active tool, not a passive teammate. Start by understanding where agents can add value. Assign AI agents clear roles and embed them into workflows where their strengthsspeed, scale, and pattern recognitionamplify human capability.
The real challenge isnt humanizing technologyits humanizing the experience of those working alongside it. That requires that people feel trusted and includednot sidelined or replaced. It means involving them in shaping AI deployment, providing hands-on, practical training, and recognizing their uniquely human strengthslike empathy and creativityas vital to success.
AI raises the bar for human critical thinking, decision-making, and accountabilityand thats where true value emerges. Done right, AI becomes a catalyst for confidence, collaboration, and culture.
Ask yourself: Am I fully leveraging the complementary strengths of humans and machineswhile keeping the human experience at the center of it all?
3. BUILD YOUR LEADERSHIP MUSCLE
The roles and responsibilities of leaders that made their organization successful in the past are different than whats required going forward. Leaders must demonstrate the courage to author an ambition that is less about protecting the past and more about creating the new.
With generative AI expected to impact over 40% of working hours, leaders must unleash the confidence of their employees while enabling their accountability, connection, and judgment. Develop employees with self-awareness and relevant experiences to grow into the future leaders you need.
Ask yourself: Am I embracing the nature of change as a moment to accelerate my ambition, foster greater connection, and ensure that my people fluency matches my tech fluency?
4. LEAD WITH LISTENING, NOT ASSUMPTIONS
AI adoption isnt being held back by fearbut rather by misaligned perceptions between leaders and employees.
Accenture research shows that 94% of employees believe they can learn the skills needed to work with AI, yet only 5% of organizations are reskilling their workforce at scale. At the same time, C-suite executives say lack of skills is a large barrier to scaling AI. This isnt just a resourcing gapits a disconnect in how each group perceives the problem.
To close the gap, leaders must start with active listening. Explain why AI matters. Offer training thats practical and ongoing. And create space for experimentation, feedback, and learningespecially when it doesnt go perfectly the first time.
Ask yourself: Are you investing the time truly required to shape AI strategy through listening and conversation with the people expected to drive it?
5. BECOME AN ARCHITECT OF CONTINUOUS CHANGE
AI is accelerating. Your culture needs to evolve just as quickly. Yet, Accenture research shows only 25% of leaders believe their teams are prepared to embrace change. Just 42% of employees feel confident in their ability to keep up.
This is not a workforce gapits a leadership opportunity. Start with a narrative that excites others about the possibilities while acknowledging the uncertainties. Embed co-learning into daily work. Encourage safe experimentation. And model the behavior you want to see: When leaders are curious, open to feedback, and transparent about their own journeys, others follow.
Ask yourself: Am I creating the right conditions for, and to work with, emergent and iterative transformation?
LEAD THE FUTURE BEFORE IT LEADS YOU
Leadership in the age of AI isnt about having all the answers. Its about showing up differentlylistening harder, adapting faster, and being brave enough to rewire the workplace. The tools are changing. The core principles are not.
Empathy. Trust. Vision. These are still the anchors of great leadership. Whats different now is whereand with whomyou practice them.
The future of impactful leadership isnt human or AI. Its human and AIworking better together.
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning.
In the summer of 2000, moviegoers flocked to see Gladiator and Mission: Impossible II, Finlands Nokia was the leading maker of cellphones, and American telephone companies Bell Atlantic and GTE completed their $52 billion merger. They changed the entitys name to Verizon Communications.
Im not big on writing about company anniversariesto me they seem like the corporate equivalent of Hallmark holidays. However, as a business journalist in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a big part of my job was to chronicle the regulatory and technological changes that led to the formation of Verizon 25 years ago. Ive interviewed all of Verizons chief executives, going back to its original co-CEOs, Chuck Lee and Ivan Seidenberg. And I wanted to speak to current CEO Hans Vestberg about the state of telecom today and how hes positioning the company for its next 25 years.
Making a big request
For Vestberg, who became CEO in 2018 and led the companys launch of its fast, low-latency 5G wireless technology, that means future-proofing the business by investing in its network. In 2021, Verizon pledged more than $52 billion to acquire wireless airwaves auctioned by the U.S. government. (For context, Verizons annual operating revenue last year was about $135 billion.) Vestberg says the purchase sets the company up to deliver products and services well into the next decades. I promise you, 25 years from now, we are going to be the leading telecom company in this country, he says. To do that, he says, you need spectrum, or radio frequencies for wireless communications.
Vestberg says the board of directors supported his massive spending request. Our board is committed to think long-term, he says. Investors have been less enthusiastic. The companys stock price is about $42 a share, roughly where it was trading in early 2021, when it agreed to buy the spectrumand the company underperformed the broader market in that time frame.
An investment in the future
Vestberg notes that today, phone calls and text messagesthe main applications for wireless phones when Verizon was born 25 years agorepresent about 3% of the networks total usage. Nearly half of the usage is for streaming movies, games, and other digital fare. He says he believes the capacity and design of Verizons network will allow the company to accommodate new technologies that will flow over its airwaves and fiber. Im here to manage the legacy of my predecessors and see that this company continues to be the number one in everything were doing in this market, he says.
Future-proofing your business
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On a recent flight home to Cincinnati, I found myself in a Wi-Fi pickle.
Delta was offering free in-flight Wi-Fi for all SkyMiles members, but only after logging in through a web page. That created an obstacle for connecting my recently-acquired retro gaming handhelds, which dont have web browsers onboard. With no access to Deltas login site, I couldnt get them online to track my gaming progress.
Quite the first-world problem, but after a bit of searching, I found a solution: Using my Android phones personal hotspot feature, I could relay Deltas Wi-Fi to any nearby device without having to go through a login page. Even with my phone in airplane mode, I was able to set up the hotspot and get my gaming handhelds online.
It turns out that Windows PCs, MacBooks, and many Android phones can share a local Wi-Fi connection this way. I wish Id known about this earlier, because it can be useful in all kinds of scenarios:.
Youre paying for hotel, in-flight, or cruise ship Wi-Fi, but each device connection costs extra.
Youre using a guest Wi-Fi network that limits the total number of devices you can connect.
Youve brought a Fire TV Stick or other streaming device to use in a hotel room, but the guest Wi-Fi network has a login page that your device cant navigate.
In all of these situations, relaying the Wi-Fi connection from a phone or computer provides a workaround. To the network, it just looks like youre connecting one device, but in reality youre distributing it to your other devices as well.
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A personal hotspot refresher
When you set up a personal hotspot on your phone, it effectively becomes a tiny wireless router, with its own network name and password. You can join this network from your other devices, and theyll use your phones internet connection to get online.
Typically, youd use a personal hotspot to extend your phones cellular connection to laptops, tablets, or other nearby devices when Wi-Fi is unavailable. If your wireless plan supports hotspot use, its a great alternative to device-specific data plans (like those pricey iPad plans the major carriers love to push on unsuspecting customers).
But with the in-flight Wi-Fi pickle I mentioned above, connecting to cellular wasnt an option. My phone was in airplane mode with cellular disabled, and theres no cell reception at 10,000 feet in the air anyway.
Instead, I used the same personal hotspot feature to share Deltas Wi-Fi connection with my gaming device. That allowed me to get online even though that device couldnt log into Deltas network on its own.
Side note: If youve never used your phones personal hotspot feature before, I suggest giving a try:
On iPhones: Head to Settings > Cellular > Personal Hotspot. From here you can turn on the hotspot and look up or change the networks password. (The Wi-Fi network name will be the same as your phones name, set under Settings > General About > Name.)
On Android: Instructions vary by phone, but look for Settings > Network & Internet (or Connections) > Hotspot & Tethering. You can set both the network name and password from this menu.
With personal hotspot turned on, your phone should appear in the Wi-Fi menu on other devices, so you can connect with whatever password you set up.
Just remember that hotspot mode puts a strain on your phones battery, so turn it back off when youre not using it.
Setting up the relay
Wi-Fi sharing is buried inside Samsungs hotspot menu
To relay a Wi-Fi connection, youll need a compatible Android phone, Windows laptop, or MacBook. (Sadly, the hotspot feature on iPhones only works with cellular data; it cant share local Wi-Fi connections.)
To see if your Android phone is compatible, try turning on your personal hotspot and Wi-Fi at the same time. If your phones top status bar shows both the hotspot and Wi-Fi symbols, any devices you connect to the personal hotspot should route through Wi-Fi instead of your cellular network. (You can also test this by turning on Airplane Mode before enabling the hotspot.)
On Samsung phones, you should also head to Settings > Connections > Mobile Hotspot and Tethering, tap on the words Mobile Hotspot, then tap the Password field. Hit the Advanced button at the bottom, then make sure Wi-Fi sharing is turned on.
If you cant use your phone to relay a Wi-Fi connection, try sharing from your laptop instead:
Windows 11: Head to Settings > Network & internet > Mobile hotspot. Set a password under the Properties heading before turning the hotspot on.
MacOS: Head to Apple Menu > System Settings > General > Sharing, then click the i next to Internet Sharing. Turn on the Wi-Fi toggle, set your network name and password, then turn Internet Sharing on.
Wi-Fi sharing in Windows 11
Wi-Fi sharing in MacOS
Just like the personal hotspot feature on phones, your laptop will create a small Wi-Fi network for connecting your devices, and theyll share whatever internet connection the laptop is using.
Keep this in mind next time you run into an overly restrictive guest Wi-Fi network, whether its on dry land or not.
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CEOs have become more than just corporate leaderstheyre among the most valuable assets on the balance sheet. Great leadership can drive billions in market cap by shaping narratives and galvanizing stakeholders. But what happens when the communication tools they use to build credibility start to erode it?
Were entering a new era in CEO communications, one where human messages increasingly filter through the lens of AI. Analysts and investors have long leaned on AI-powered language models and sentiment analysis to dissect earnings calls, parsing executive tone, word choice, and delivery for signals on strategy, risk, or future performance. Now, CEOs and their teams are flipping the scriptcrafting messages with the help of generative AI to appeal to the very same systems analyzing them.
Its a feedback loop of machines talking to machines. And while the tech arms race might make earnings calls look polished and sentiment scores spike, it also risks creating a sentiment gap. In the end, credibility is still the most valuable currency in leadershipand AI cant replace that.
The CEO Premium Meets the AI Arms Race
Corporate valuation has always been about more than just numbers. Investors have baked intangibles like brand equity, leadership narratives, and cultural impact into their models. As NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran puts it, valuation is as much about a companys story as it is about spreadsheets.
The CEOs job is to integrate those stories with their strategies. Jensen Huang didnt make Nvidia a trillion-dollar company because of flawless financial executionhe did it by selling a vision of AI as the engine of the future, powering everything from healthcare to climate solutions. Thats the CEO premium in action: the ability to turn a strategic story into market-moving value. But heres what no ones saying out loud: when that story is over-engineered with AI, something critical is lost.
Consider this: Bank of Americas S&P 500 corporate sentiment tracker, based on an analysis of thousands of earnings transcripts, hit an all-time high earlier this year, even as analysts lowered growth expectations for 2025. The disconnect is stark. While executives are optimizing their tone and language to look and sound bullish, its masking underlying realities.
Were looking at a sentiment bubble, where polished communications are designed to impress algorithms but are creating distance from actual performance. The result? A risk to long-term stakeholder confidence and broader market integrity.
The Credibility Gap is Realand Risky
AI-powered communications is an incredible asset. It can help executives sharpen their messages, anticipate audience reactions, and streamline delivery. But when it starts to obscure realityor worse, is used as a veilit risks blowing up the most important thing any CEO has: credibility.
Markets thrive on credibility. Investors place a premium on CEOs who communicate clearly and consistently, and are transparent about their strengths and challenges. When communication becomes engineered for algorithms rather than stakeholders, it creates a hollow effectpolished on the surface, but leaving questions below.
This is more than theoretical. A recent study published in Harvard Business Review found that employees rated CEO messages as less helpful if they thought the message was AI-generatedeven when it wasn’t. Perception alone was enough to damage trust. That finding underscores the growing credibility risk CEOs face when misusing or leaning too heavily on AI.
What CEOs Need to Do Now
So where does this leave us? The CEOs who win in this new reality wont be the ones with the most AI-polished messagingtheyll be the ones who balance technology with authenticity. Heres how:
Speak to Stakeholders, Not Just Algorithms: Say what you mean. Own the hard truths. AI should enhance a message, not sanitize it. AI-generated communications might score well with language models, but stakeholdersinvestors, employees, customersarent grading on polish. Theyre looking for clarity.
Anchor Narratives in Performance: Narratives drive valuation, but theyre meaningless without numbers. If the results are strong, show your math. If theyre weak, explain why. Dont let AI overinflate optimism. Instead, use it to sharpen transparency.
Ensure AI Augments, Not Replaces: AI is great for refining delivery and identifying blind spots, but it cant replace human judgment or instinct. Companies that over-rely on AI-driven clones or sentiment engineering risk losing the real connection that drives stakeholder engagement.
Anticipate the Credibility Pivot: As sentiment inflation continues, markets will inevitably adjust. Investors will begin looking for the next differentiator, pivoting from polished delivery to deeper signals of authenticity. CEOs who lean into direct, unvarnished communication will stand out.
Get Ahead of Whats Coming: The tools analyzing your every word are only getting more advanced. The only sustainable strategy? Consistency. Authenticity. Messages that hold up under scrutinyalgorithmic or human. If your leadership story cant survive deep analysis, it was never leadership to begin with.
The Way Forward: Still a Human Game
AI is reshaping the rules of executive communications, but the most successful leaders will recognize that technology is a supporting actnot the star of the show. At the end of the day, the algorithms dont close deals, inspire employees, or build relationships with customersCEOs do.
In this next chapter of leadership, The CEOs who win wont be the ones scoring highest on sentiment trackers. Theyll be the ones who use AI responsibly, stay grounded in performance, and lead with clarity and authenticity. Because when machines talk past each other, the whole system breaks down.
Credibility is still the most valuable asset a CEO has. And no algorithm can replace that.
For the Los Angeles area neighborhoods devastated by January’s wildfires, rebuilding is a question of how, not if. A new effort involving 40 architecture firms from L.A. and beyond aims to broaden the scope of what that rebuilding looks like.
Case Study 2.0 is a model home design program that is creating a catalog of preapproved and deeply discounted house plans for fire victims in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods. Combining the quality of custom design with the speed and affordability of mass production, the designs are intended to be easily permitted, quick to build, relatively affordable and, just as importantly, beautiful.
Xenia Projects [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
This effort was launched in February by Crest Real Estate, a land-use-consulting and permit-expediting company that works with architects, developers, and municipalities to get development projects approved for construction. Third-generation Angeleno Steven Somers, who founded Crest with his brother, Jason, 13 years ago, says that once the fires broke, he knew the company was obligated to do something to help in the eventual recovery. “We’re in a position where we understand the next steps,” Somers says.
Emre Arolat Architecture [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
To expedite the rebuilding process, Crest recruited 40 top architecture firms from L.A. and beyond to develop more than 50 fire-resilient home designs that can be quickly approved for construction permits. The homes range from Spanish Colonials and compact bungalows to minimalist ranch-style single-story homes and modernist spectacles with sculptural rooflines. Designed to meet the parameters of the eight most common lots in the fire-affected areas, these house plans are contemporary in design but intended to be built in multiples rather than as one-offs.
Tracy Stone [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
The architects have agreed to make their plans available to fire victims for $25 per square foot, which, depending on the firm, is just 25% to 35% of what they’d usually charge for architectural services. And once each design goes through the initial approvals process with either the city or county, it will take less than half the usual amount of time to get any additional build of that design permitted.
“The question we were asking was how do you rebuild 100 years of character over the next five years?” Somers says. “People are really concerned that what gets built back feels like a tract development and doesn’t have the unique variation from lot to lot that made these communities entirely unique.”
Solkatt [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
A historical precedent
This effort was inspired by the postwar-era Case Study House Program, which sought to meet the booming demand for housing in the 1940s and ’50s by commissioning architecture firms to design replicable modern homes for the L.A. region. The resulting houses are now regarded as icons of mid-century modern design, but they didn’t achieve their intended scale.
Stahl House: Case Study House #22 [Photo: kjmagnuson/Flickr]
“Today we have a similarly urgent need for thousands of units of housing to be built. We want that to be done beautifully, just like the first Case Study House Program, but it must be done economically,” Somers says. “That’s where we feel like we’re picking up the baton.”
Grant Kirkpatrick is founding principal of L.A.-based KAA Design, and he worked with Somers as Crest was developing the idea for the Case Study 2.0 program. “As someone who has worked in the hillsides of Los Angeles for over 35 yearsand has seen more than a dozen of our projects lost to fireI feel a deep responsibility to be part of the solution,” Kirkpatrick says. “We see this as an opportunity to help reimagine whats possible after lossnot only to restore homes, but to restore hope.”
Marmol Radziner [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
Somers says the program cuts the cost of rebuilding in several ways. First is the discount on the designs offered by all the participating architects, including Morphosis, Marmol Radziner, and Tighe Architecture. Second is a range of 15% to 30% discounts offered by partner companies on building materials including doors, windows, roof tiles, and exterior cladding. There’s also the reduced overall cost that comes from having plans that are already preapproved.
Morphosis [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
Once the first iteration of a design goes through that four-to-six month permitting process, Somers says each subsequent use of that design should be approved in just two months. And if the same contractor is used to build each iteration of a design, there are likely to be further cost and time savings. “They’re going to start to really create almost an assembly line process,” he says.
Solkatt [Image: courtesy Case Study 2.0]
All this combines to reduce the cost of building a nearly custom contemporary home by 20% to 35%, Somers says. In L.A., that could translate to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The goal, Somers says, is for the houses to be built for between $600 and $800 per square foot. That translates to between $1.2 million and $1.8 million for a 2,000 square foot house, which is more than the $970,000 cost of the average home in the city of L.A., according to Zillow. For the affluent residents of the Pacific Palisades, the cost may be more manageable than for the middle class residents of Altadena.
The homes offered through this program are not the cheapest option on the market, nor are they intended to be. “The real goal here is giving homeowners an option to rebuild something beautiful and that they’re really excited about, but that can cost less than what a typical one-off custom home would cost to build,” Somers says.
The program is still in its early phases, and none of the designs in the catalog has gotten to the point of going up for official city or county approval. But Somers says multiple architects are currently working with clients to pursue rebuilding through the program. “I’m absolutely confident that some of these homes will be built,” he says. “Whether that’s 10 homes or 250 homes remains to be seen.”
