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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans, Daily Bean, Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Wednesday, December 24th, 2025.

Today, the Supreme Court has rejected Trump's authority to deploy the National Guard under Title X, Section 12406.

The Department of Justice published a suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein to U.S.

gymnastics Dr. Larry Nasser. Judge Crenshaw has ordered the release of a sealed document in the Kilmar case that could prove the government lied outright to the court. Congresswoman Joyce

Beatty is suing Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for

the Performing Arts. A new trove of apparent Epstein files released by the Department of Justice seems to have

disappeared. Judge Eileen Cannon says she will lift her block on volume two of Jack Smith's final

report in February, but she's allowing Trump to intervene an appeal. The Trump administration has purged over

30 ambassadors from their posts, and La Monica McIver returns to the ICE facility where she was framed

for assaulting a federal agent to conduct oversight. I'm your host, Alison Gill.

Hey, everybody. Happy Wednesday. It is Christmas Eve. If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas. Otherwise, happy holidays to everyone. Later in the show, I'm going to be talking with Jessica Schubel. It was a fantastic conversation. She's a former White House Affordable Care Act director. We're going to talk about Republicans' failure to extend ACA subsidies

and the concepts of a plan they passed in the House before Mike Johnson sent everyone on vacation.

We're going to talk about what January 1st is going to look like that we have until January 15th

to buy a plan and what the House might do when they come back into session.

We'll see.

All right, we have a ton of news to get to today.

It's been a very busy news day.

It's honestly been a really busy news week.

I thought the news would sort of slow down this week, but it hasn't.

So let's get into it.

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