This July 4th, Ignore Trump. Listen to Gerald Ford.

Photo: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watch fireworks from the Truman Balcony of the White House, Friday, July 4, 2025. Photo credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks via Flickr. US government work. Authors: William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift. The Bulwark – July 2, 2026.

Our past Republican presidents understood that we are proudly a nation of immigrants.

A so-so June jobs report dropped this morning, with the U.S. economy adding 57,000 non-farm jobs last month—about half as many as economists had expected. What’s more, April and May’s job reports were revised down a combined 74,000 jobs. The unemployment rate, however, ticked down from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent. Basically, bleh. […]

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