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Jul 04, 2025
President Trump triumphantly highlighted tax cuts in the legislation while downplaying cuts to Medicaid and other assistance for poor Americans.
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Jul 04, 2025
Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president.
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Jul 03, 2025
The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach.
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Jul 03, 2025
Social work majors might struggle to get student loans. University endowments would be more heavily taxed. But students in some training programs would become eligible for Pell Grants.
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Jul 03, 2025
Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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Jul 03, 2025
The wide-ranging domestic policy legislation could impact taxes, clean energy choices, health care access and more.
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Jul 03, 2025
Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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Jul 02, 2025
To secure a key vote, an "absurd policy" was created that winds up encouraging states to make more mistakes.
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Jul 02, 2025
If members of the House demand changes to the legislation the Senate has passed, the two chambers will have to work out their differences in what could be a prolonged negotiation, potentially killing the effort.
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Jul 02, 2025
Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party's agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
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Jul 02, 2025
Democrats are sharpening their political arguments against their opposition as the president's major policy bill moves through Congress.
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Jul 02, 2025
Readers criticize several aspects of the Trump policy bill. Also: In praise of U.S.A.I.D.
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Jul 02, 2025
The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump's agenda passed in the Senate. It now goes to the House. Plus, we take a close look at this Supreme Court term.
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Jul 02, 2025
Plus, the science of staying cool.
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Jul 02, 2025
But the benefits of the deduction, estimated to cost $31 billion over four years, may be limited to a narrow slice of consumers, economists say.
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Jul 02, 2025
The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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Jul 02, 2025
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
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Jul 01, 2025
The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services.
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Jul 01, 2025
Trump's "big beautiful bill" would gut Medicaid, nutrition assistance and clean energy credits. All for what?
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators cast 43 recorded votes during a marathon session on President Trump's domestic policy bill, nearly reaching the 44-vote record from 2008. The session lasted roughly 27 hours without a recess.
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Jul 01, 2025
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Republican Party.
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Jul 01, 2025
To meet the president's Friday deadline, the speaker will have to corral his party into accepting a bill several have criticized.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Alaska Republican, a frequent critic of the president who is often a swing vote, acknowledged the bill would harm Americans but backed it after winning carve outs for her state.
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Jul 01, 2025
The sprawling legislation that Republicans expended extraordinary effort to muscle through the Senate was a high-stakes risk that is likely to have major consequences for the party and the country.
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Jul 01, 2025
By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina defied the president on his signature measure.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Senate passed President Trump's marquee bill to slash taxes and social safety net programs after more than 24 hours of debate and negotiations. It must now go to the house for final approval.
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators cast 49 votes during a marathon session on President Trump's domestic policy bill. Vice President JD Vance cast the deciding vote on the final version after roughly 27 hours without a recess.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Senate voted 51 to 50 to pass President Trump's sweeping domestic policy package.
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Jul 01, 2025
Party leaders were able to muscle through considerable internal rifts, but the bill's fate in the House was uncertain.
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Jul 01, 2025
Voting for over 24 hours, senators donned fluffy blankets in the frigid chamber, gobbled fast food and recorded behind-the-scenes tours of the Capitol as Republicans before passing their sweeping policy bill.
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Jul 01, 2025
The president and his Senate allies have cited inaccurate claims about their tax and policy bill.
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Jul 01, 2025
Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country's finances for a generation.
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Jul 01, 2025
Voting for over 24 hours, senators donned fluffy blankets in the frigid chamber, gobbled fast food and recorded behind-the-scenes tours of the Capitol as Republicans struggled to pass their sweeping policy bill.
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Jul 01, 2025
All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.
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Jul 01, 2025
All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.
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Jul 01, 2025
Republican leaders were pushing for a final vote to pass their marquee tax cut and domestic policy legislation, but had yet to resolve major issues after an all-night session of voting and negotiations.
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Jul 01, 2025
After losing to Ted Cruz last year, Mr. Allred is planning his second statewide run and looking for a stronger political climate for Democrats.
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Jul 01, 2025
A popular former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, is expected to announce a bid this summer. The Republicans are banking on an endorsement by President Trump to clear their field.
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Jul 01, 2025
And so will many voters.
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Jun 30, 2025
Senator Marsha Blackburn said in a statement that she was pulling her support for an amendment to the Senate's domestic policy package, one that she had worked on with Senator Ted Cruz.
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Jun 30, 2025
The billionaire and former Trump adviser suggested that if the domestic policy bill passed, he would swiftly form a new "America Party" and back primary challenges to Republicans.
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Jun 30, 2025
On Monday, Senate Republicans voted on several proposed amendments to the measure in an attempt to gain the support of at least a half-dozen Republicans that remained undecided. If just four Republicans voted against Trump's controversial domestic policy plan, the bill would fail to pass.
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Jun 30, 2025
Language in the chamber's spending bill says that state laws related to A.I. cannot pose an "undue or disproportionate burden" to tech companies.
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Jun 30, 2025
The Senate held an hourslong vote-a-thon on the legislation as Republicans continued to grasp for the support to pass President Trump's signature legislation.
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Jun 30, 2025
Senate Republicans can afford to lose no more than three of their own votes on the bill, but two already are opposed and others remained undecided.
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Jun 30, 2025
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
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Jun 30, 2025
Republicans delayed a rapid-fire series of votes on the measure until Monday morning as they grasped for the support to pass President Trump's signature legislation.
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Jun 30, 2025
As the Senate prepares to vote on a key piece of the president's domestic agenda, prominent critics, including Elon Musk, are speaking out.
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Jun 29, 2025
New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate.
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Jun 29, 2025
Senate Republicans are charging forward with a plan to disregard the chamber's longtime rules affecting what bills can be passed along party lines.
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Jun 29, 2025
New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate.
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Jun 29, 2025
The day after President Trump castigated the North Carolina Republican for saying he was opposed to the policy bill carrying his domestic agenda, the senator announced he would not seek a third term.
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Jun 29, 2025
Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.
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Jun 29, 2025
A new analysis showing the legislation would be far more expensive than the House version could complicate its chances of final passage in that chamber, where fiscal hawks have said the cost must not grow.
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Jun 29, 2025
New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate.
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Jun 29, 2025
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans' new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.
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Jun 29, 2025
Trump wants one of his lawyers to be one of his judges.
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Jun 29, 2025
A reckless nomination puts the Senate to the test.
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Jun 28, 2025
Republican leaders barely scaled a key procedural hurdle to bring up the bill, but Democrats delayed its consideration and it was unclear whether the G.O.P. had the votes to pass it.
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Jun 28, 2025
A vote to take up the legislation dragged for more than three hours even after leaders presented a new version of the measure with concessions aimed at winning over key holdouts.
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Jun 28, 2025
New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.
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Jun 28, 2025
Economists have estimated that previous versions of the bill could add trillions to the national debt, but many haven't had the chance to review the latest Senate version.
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Jun 28, 2025
A new version of the measure released in the middle of the night would set aside money to help states hit by its cuts to Medicaid, hasten the end of clean energy tax credits and sweeten the state and local tax deduction.
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Jun 28, 2025
The court tied the hands of judges at a time when Congress has been cowed and internal executive branch constraints have been steamrolled.
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Jun 27, 2025
The vote against the measure was mostly along party lines, with Republicans opposing it and Democrats almost unanimously in favor.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Senate voted 53 to 47 to reject a resolution to block the president's use of force against Iran without congressional approval.
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Jun 27, 2025
A look at some of the key provisions in Republicans' domestic policy bill and where the two chambers are divided.
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Jun 27, 2025
President Trump's megabill makes many Republicans uncomfortable, but that probably won't stop it from becoming law.
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Jun 27, 2025
The sweeping measure Senate Republican leaders hope to push through has many unpopular elements that they despise. But they face a political reckoning on taxes and the scorn of the president if they fail to pass it.
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Jun 27, 2025
Mr. Morris, a founder of a waste and recycling business, describes himself as the only political outsider in the field and an unwavering supporter of President Trump.
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Jun 27, 2025
The responses to Zohran Mamdani's showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.
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Jun 27, 2025
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
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Jun 27, 2025
With the broad tax and health care bill they are now trying to muscle into law, Senate Republicans are preparing to upend Washington's accounting standards.
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Jun 27, 2025
With the broad tax and health care bill they are now trying to muscle into law, Senate Republicans are preparing to upend Washington's accounting standards.
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Jun 26, 2025
Party lawmakers have devised a way around an earlier procedural roadblock to their safety-net cuts.
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Jun 26, 2025
The closed-door session drew more questions from Democrats over the true success of the operation.
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Jun 26, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Group of 7 agreed that penalties related to a 2021 "global minimum tax" deal will not apply to American companies.
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Jun 26, 2025
For 50 years, automakers have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles or pay fines. The Republican megabill would set those penalties to $0.
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Jun 26, 2025
The parliamentarian, who decides whether the bill complies with budget rules, threw out some proposals, leaving Republicans searching for ways to cover its cost.
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Jun 26, 2025
A retrospective on four previous Republican-driven tax-cut packages found that the results always come up short compared to bullish predictions of economic booms and lower deficits.
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Jun 26, 2025
As they push for big cuts in Medicaid and food stamps, Republicans are making a big bet that they can avoid political backlash from working-class supporters who increasingly rely on those programs.
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Jun 25, 2025
President Trump has sought to claw back funds for public broadcasting and foreign aid, sparking a fierce debate over the power of the purse.
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Jun 25, 2025
It is wildly regressive. And when voters learn what it does — even Republican voters — they recoil from it.
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Jun 25, 2025
At a confirmation hearing, a Trump appointee pushed back against a whistle-blower's allegations.
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Jun 25, 2025
A retrospective on four previous Republican-driven tax-cut packages found that the results always come up short compared to bullish predictions of economic booms and lower deficits.
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Jun 25, 2025
Supporters of tax breaks for wind and solar are fighting to retain them in the G.O.P. tax bill. They're facing a conservative effort to kill them entirely.
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Jun 25, 2025
It is wildly regressive. And when voters learn what it does — even Republican voters — they recoil against it.
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Jun 24, 2025
Both President Trump and Senate Republican leaders are pressing for the House to accept their version of the sprawling domestic policy bill, but some right-wing holdouts are opposed to key pieces.
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Jun 24, 2025
Senator Mike Lee hoped to sell millions of acres of federal land through President Trump's policy bill, in part to ease housing costs. The opposition was bipartisan, in Congress and the West.
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Jun 24, 2025
Democrats reacted with outrage after the Trump administration, which has yet to consult with Congress on its strikes against Iran, delayed a planned briefing with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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Jun 24, 2025
So far, the parliamentarian has determined that dozens of provisions do not pass muster to be included.
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Jun 24, 2025
Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.
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Jun 24, 2025
Bombing Iran without congressional authorization escalated a bipartisan trend of presidents bypassing the original intent of the Constitution.
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Jun 24, 2025
Trump's unlawful strikes on Iran have laid bare the absence of any effective legal constraints on a U.S. president to use deadly force in the world.
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Jun 23, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson signaled he was not inclined to allow a vote on whether to authorize military strikes in Iran, while leading Democrats demanded a briefing and said the president had overstepped his power.
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Jun 23, 2025
Terry Virts, an early entrant in the Democratic field targeting Senator John Cornyn's seat, appeared eager to take on his own party as well as President Trump's.
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Jun 22, 2025
President Trump avoided asking Congress for permission before striking Iran, despite the Constitution saying only the legislature can declare war.
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Jun 21, 2025
Republicans in Congress praised President Trump's decision to hit Iran. Many Democrats and some G.O.P. lawmakers said he should have consulted Congress.
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