Familiar home-state foes faced off Thursday in Washington as Democratic governors from New York, Minnesota and Illinois testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on their states’ “sanctuary” policies limiting cooperation between federal immigration officers and state law enforcement. Govs. Kathy Hochul of New York, Tim Walz of Minnesota and JB Pritzker of […]
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The lowest-income households in the United States would lose $1,600 a year in federal resources under the domestic-policy package House Republicans passed last month, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts. At the same time, resources would be increased by $12,000 for the highest-income households under the legislation, according to the analysis the Congressional Budget Office published Thursday. […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) got his invite to Thursday’s White House picnic on the South Lawn restored — but another intraparty critic of the president also said he was not on the guest list. Paul — who has been sharply critical of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” — on Wednesday said he had […]
As Republicans continue to inch forward on their megabill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been working to sway them against wholesale repeals of the Biden-era climate law he helped get passed in 2022. It’s an exercise he’s been undertaking since President Donald Trump and Republicans swept the elections last year, he said in an […]
President Donald Trump is bullish about wanting a “big, beautiful bill” on his desk in just three weeks. But to meet that goal, he’ll have to help settle a tricky tax fight. Trump will huddle with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) at the White House this afternoon — the […]
The Senate has rejected resolutions seeking to block multi-billion-dollar arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over the objections of Democrats who say President Donald Trump will personally benefit from separate deals with these countries. The Senate voted 39-56 on Wednesday against each of the joint resolutions of disapproval, which would have halted […]
Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo told fellow Republicans in a Wednesday briefing that three major business tax provisions will be made permanent in the GOP’s megabill, senators who attended said, while a key break for individual taxpayers will be scaled back. The pledge to restore larger tax deductions for research-and-development costs, business equipment purchases […]
Sen. Rand Paul says he and his family have been uninvited from the White House picnic for members of Congress, accusing the administration of targeting him over his opposition to some of President Donald Trump’s policies. “I think I’m the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White […]
Landmark Senate cryptocurrency legislation cleared another procedural hurdle on Wednesday, inching the upper chamber closer to a vote on final passage following weeks of delays and hiccups. The upper chamber voted 68-30 to move forward on a substitute amendment that includes an array of changes to the original bill Republicans agreed to last month in […]
Republicans’ ambitious July 4 target for their sweeping domestic policy legislation is facing new doubts this week as GOP leaders in the House and Senate push and pull over changes to the complex megabill. Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Wednesday that while he believed Republicans were “on track” for final passage by the […]