House Republicans muscled the “big, beautiful bill” through a procedural hurdle on the floor overnight Thursday, setting the legislation up for a final vote as the conference works to get it to President Donald Trump’s desk by July 4. The House voted 219 to 213 to adopt the rule, with one Republican joining all Democrats […]
President Donald Trump is losing patience with House Republican holdouts as the procedural rule vote on the “big beautiful bill” has remained open for nearly three hours. In a post to Truth Social, Trump recycled old talking points about the bill that extends the 2017 tax cuts and called on the GOP to move forward […]
Mistakenly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered physical and psychological abuse in the Salvadoran prison where he was detained. The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador on March 15, and he was held in the country’s maximum security CECOT facility, with the administration describing his deportation as an “administrative error.” […]
President Donald Trump said he expects the House to vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Wednesday night. “It looks like the House is ready to vote tonight,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “We had GREAT conversations all day, and the Republican House Majority is UNITED, for the Good of our […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) tried to appeal to House Republicans who were hesitant to vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by invoking the late Sen. John McCain’s vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act. The Arizona Republican, who died in 2018, famously voted against his party in a shocking move that […]
A group of blue-state Republicans is likely to obtain a significant increase in the SALT cap as they were able to negotiate with leadership during reconciliation, despite continued grumbling by the House Freedom Caucus. One of the dominant points of contention as the House worked to pass its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in […]
A 21-year-old intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) was killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C., on Monday night. The intern, Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, joined Estes’s office in June. He is a resident of Granby, Massachusetts, and is attending college at UMass Amherst. He will be a senior this fall. Police found Tarpinian-Jachym along with a woman and […]
Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives. In May, the Elias Law Group, the eponymous law firm of the election attorney, jointly filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban, enacted as H.B. 2106, on behalf of the foreign-funded […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lambasted Paramount Global’s decision on Wednesday to settle with President Donald Trump for $16 million over editing choices in CBS News’s 60 Minutes election special that made former Vice President Kamala Harris look more favorable. Sanders claimed independent media were under attack following the settlement of Trump’s lawsuit. “It is a […]
President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs on Mexican tomatoes have Republicans divided. A 21% tariff on tomato imports from Mexico is set to take effect later this month, as the Trump administration believes doing so will allow U.S. tomato growers “to compete fairly in the marketplace.” Given that Mexican-grown tomatoes account for roughly 70% of the U.S. […]
