The House Rules Committee is meeting Tuesday afternoon to begin hashing out the final version of President Donald Trump‘s “big, beautiful bill,” which focuses on tax cuts among other GOP priorities. TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL’ TAX BILL CLEARS SENATE AFTER GOP REBELLION FORCES VANCE TIEBREAKER The meeting is set to start at 1:30 p.m. It comes […]
EXCLUSIVE — Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-SD) budding relationship with President Donald Trump survived its biggest stress test on Tuesday as Republicans passed their marquee tax bill through the Senate. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Thune recounted the hands-on approach Trump took on the megabill and the months of White House meetings, calls, […]
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush directly criticized the Trump administration’s move to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department on Monday during a video tribute for the agency’s staffers. The former presidents teamed up with Bono for a farewell video marking the organization’s last day as an independent […]
Omaha City Council Vice President Brinker Harding is running to replace retiring Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), the first Republican to do so as the party scrambles to find someone to hold on to the swing district. Bacon, who has served in Congress since 2017, announced Monday that he would not seek reelection. He represents Nebraska‘s […]
(The Center Square) – Tennessee Republican Rep. Jody Barrett didn’t vote with his party when the Education Freedom Scholarship passed, and now that the bill is officially law, he said he has more concerns. The 20,000 scholarships, which Barrett and Democrats call “vouchers,” give families $7,295 to attend the private school of their choice. The bill […]
As President Donald Trump pushes for Congress to pass his major domestic policy bill by the Fourth of July, he also conceded that lawmakers may need to extend the negotiation process beyond the self-imposed deadline. “We want to keep it to the July Fourth,” Trump told reporters Tuesday morning as he headed to the Florida […]
A deal addressing concerns over an artificial intelligence regulation moratorium in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” collapsed after one of its architects pulled out. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) came to a compromise regarding the bill’s provision forbidding states from regulating AI for ten years, bringing it down to five years, […]
Vice President JD Vance is in the hopper and ready to go should he need to be the deciding vote on Republicans’ mega tax cut and spending bill. After 24 hours, the so-called vote-a-rama for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is still ongoing. The process entails Republicans and Democrats offering up amendments to the […]
(The Center Square) – Taxpayers will pay for the Cleveland Browns new stadium, and Ohio is officially the 15th state with a flat tax after Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s new operating budget. In an announcement made in the early morning hours Tuesday, the second-term Republican said the budget prioritizes children and develops the […]
