Nearly 40 million Americans are caregivers, providing unpaid assistance to the ill, aged and disabled. Most of these caregivers also hold down full-time jobs while dispensing random acts of kindness to family members, friends and strangers. Today, our lead columnist writes that we should remember these selfless volunteers regularly give us one of the greatest gifts of all. In our second column, a clergy member connects our climate of fear to Scripture, reminding us the faithful are commanded to be unafraid, even in the face of danger.

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) (center left) speaks with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) as they leave a Senate Republican luncheon and the Senate holds a “vote-a-rama” to pass President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Monday, June 30, 2025.  (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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