1.💰PRESIDENT TRUMP PUTS EUROPE ON NOTICE OVER DIGITAL SERVICES TAX

President Trump is taking action to stop Europe from using American companies as a piggy bank.

As Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) laid out in a recent Bloomberg Tax op-ed, foreign governments have spent years slapping discriminatory Digital Services Taxes on U.S. firms, to the tune of $2.96 billion annually, and that number could balloon to $117 billion over the next decade. Congressman Estes is taking this issue seriously and making the case clearly: these taxes aren’t policy, they’re a shakedown.

President Trump agrees. Taking to Truth Social, he warned that “numerous European Countries” are on the verge of implementing new DSTs and made clear the consequences: “Any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”

This move shouldn’t come as a shock to the EU. President Trump signaled during last year’s tariff fight that he viewed these taxes as inherently unfair, yet European Parliament members kept discussing future implementation anyway. The approach is already working… Canada, India, and more than a dozen other nations have already backed down. France and the UK are next in line.

President Trump’s ultimatum is leverage against an undemocratic tax regime designed from the outset to hurt American businesses operating abroad. U.S. companies built the technologies that connect the world. They aren’t a revenue stream for foreign governments.

2. 🇺🇲 AS AMERICA TURNS 250, WE STILL DON’T TAKE ORDERS FROM EUROPE

As America approaches its 250th anniversary of declaring its independence, the last thing U.S. businesses should be doing is answering to Brussels.

A recent op-ed from Michael Toth points out that the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) is projected to cost American companies over $1 trillion in compliance costs, ensnaring roughly 4,000 U.S. firms, including 1,000 energy companies, and conscripting them to police their supply chains to meet the EU’s rules.

That’s not a partnership… it’s regulatory colonialism.

Toth writes: “Congress should make it equally clear that the rules governing American businesses will be written by elected representatives in the U.S. — not by bureaucrats in Brussels.”

As the Trump administration works to level the playing field for American workers and businesses, pushing back on overreaching foreign mandates like CS3D isn’t just smart policy, it’s an act of economic patriotism worthy of the moment.

🇫🇷 FRANCE’S GREEN ELITE MELTS DOWN, LITERALLY

The heat wave continues…

For years, France’s Green politicians lectured the world about the evils of air conditioning, calling it an environmental sin, a right-wing indulgence, a symbol of excess. Then the thermometer hit 46.8°C (116°F) and suddenly the rules changed.

On June 23rd, France recorded its hottest day since 1947, and more than half the country was placed under the highest heat alert. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu was forced to announce an emergency mobilization of the healthcare system.

The hypocrisy was immediate and undeniable. Marine Tondelier, national secretary of France’s Green Party, publicly acknowledged a long-standing “taboo” on air conditioning, now calling it indispensable for schools and hospitals

This year, France even decided to ban drinking alcohol in public to counter the heat. Just one year ago, during the 2025 heatwave, these same politicians attacked AC as an environmentally misguided right-wing proposal while schools closed and children sat in dangerously overheated classrooms.

This is the Green agenda in practice: ban commonsense solutions, lecture the public, and reverse course only when it’s too late.