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The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his second term, with the bill expected to supercharge immigration enforcement and slash federal safety net programs. For decades, Republicans have argued that the US . . .
The Republican-controlled US Senate advanced president Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill in a key procedural vote on Saturday, raising the odds that lawmakers will be able to pass the legislation in coming days. The vote over Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” bill had stalled on Saturday evening, with Republicans divided over the package of […]
Senate Republicans are racing to pass a budget bill that is pivotal to President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda ahead of a self-imposed 4 July deadline. Party leadership have been twisting arms for an initial vote on the “Big Beautiful Bill” on Saturday, following the release of its latest version – all 940 pages – shortly […]
by Lowell Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, May 21. Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows (“Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests” UGH)
A budget bill, long touted by Donald Trump as the “big, beautiful bill” hit a roadblock on Friday when lawmakers from the president’s own party voted against it in congress. Five Republicans joined all Democrats in delivering a stunning setback to President Trump’s domestic agenda, demanding deeper budget cuts. Trump, who has muscled through close […]
Some of the children were too young to stand on their own. Instead, they sat on their parents’ knees or in their parents’ arms, waving American flags. Many of them seemed confused about what, exactly, was even happening. But these kids were in the midst of making history: their families were among the first to […]
Americans are now more likely to say they trust information from news organizations and social media sites than they were last year, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. These changes are largely driven by an increase in trust among Republicans, which has coincided with President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. How […]
House Republicans have voted down an effort to block immigration enforcers from using federal resources to detain or deport U.S. citizens. During a House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Democrats tabled amedments to a sweeping budget bill that President Donald Trump has dubbed “one big, beautiful bill.” One amendment introduced by Representative . . .
On a mostly party-line basis, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the SAVE Act, a bill that would establish new restrictions to voting. After years of court orders that have weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and a slew of contested state laws and voting maps, Black leaders say the latest legislation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee voiced sharp bipartisan criticism Tuesday about reports the Trump administration is eyeing a reduction of U.S. forces in Europe, saying America must stick with its NATO allies. Rep. Michael Rogers, R-Mich., the panel’s chairman, said the U.S.