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Apr 29, 2025
The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.
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Apr 29, 2025
At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump's "starting gun" to begin mining. Democrats and Republicans clashed over environmental and business concerns.
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Apr 29, 2025
G.O.P. leaders used a procedural maneuver to close off an avenue for House members to demand answers from the Trump administration, including on the defense secretary's use of Signal.
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Apr 29, 2025
The New York Historical plans six exhibitions, all featuring the city as a major player.
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Apr 29, 2025
NYU Langone Health aired a commercial showcasing its doctors during the Super Bowl. A North Carolina congressman wondered if it was a waste of money.
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Apr 28, 2025
The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.
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Apr 28, 2025
As part of legislation to pay for President Trump's domestic agenda, including his immigration crackdown, House Republicans want to impose or increase fees for legal entry into the United States.
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Apr 28, 2025
Mr. Connolly, of Virginia, said he would not run for re-election. He will also give up his leadership spot on the oversight panel as he faces cancer.
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Apr 28, 2025
Greg Casar, a Texas Democrat and new chairman of the House Progressive Caucus, says his party must adopt economic populism to recapture voters and effectively counter President Trump.
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Apr 28, 2025
Representative Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia said he would not run for re-election. He will also give up his leadership spot on the oversight panel as he faces cancer.
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Apr 28, 2025
The conservative senator from Missouri, better known for his raised fist in solidarity with Trump supporters on Jan. 6, is embracing a key rhetorical theme in the president's political ascendancy.
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Apr 28, 2025
Republican lawmakers are set to lay out specifics of their sweeping fiscal package as Congress returns for a critical month, giving Democrats an opening for fresh attacks.
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Apr 25, 2025
Federal prosecutors had said Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, should receive a lengthy sentence to "protect the public" from future fraud.
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Apr 25, 2025
Federal prosecutors wanted Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to receive a lengthy sentence to "protect the public" from future fraud.
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Apr 25, 2025
Federal prosecutors want Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to be sentenced to 87 months in prison.
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Apr 23, 2025
Senator Richard J. Durbin's departure will set off a primary for a rare open Senate seat in Illinois and open a top leadership slot. He said it was time to "face reality" and make way for someone new.
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Apr 22, 2025
Five Democrats met with Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who face deportation by the Trump administration.
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Apr 22, 2025
The primary race in Kentucky for Mr. McConnell's seat is expected to be one of the biggest G.O.P. clashes of 2026. On Tuesday, it gained its second high-profile contender, Representative Andy Barr.
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Apr 22, 2025
The Democratic representative from suburban Detroit is likely to be seen as a centrist in the primary contest to replace Senator Gary Peters, who is retiring.
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Apr 20, 2025
"Facilitating his return means something more than doing nothing, and they are doing nothing," Senator Chris Van Hollen said after his trip to El Salvador.
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Apr 18, 2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison.
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Apr 18, 2025
Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump's actions.
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Apr 18, 2025
A 14-term Democrat from Western New York, he sponsored financial reforms to aid consumers and pressed Washington to protect Americans from environmental hazards.
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Apr 18, 2025
Plus, meat is making a comeback.
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Apr 18, 2025
Earlier in the day, armed military officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.
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Apr 17, 2025
Out of power in Congress, Democrats who were slow to fight back against President Trump are increasingly finding ways to do so. But activists want much more.
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Apr 17, 2025
Plus, a capybara controversy in Argentina.
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Apr 17, 2025
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, is joining the Democratic race to succeed Senator Gary Peters, who is retiring.
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Apr 17, 2025
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send "homegrown" Americans there next.
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Apr 16, 2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he had not yet been allowed to see Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and imprisoned.
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Apr 16, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer had said he would block the permanent appointment of Jay Clayton, the president's choice to head one of the nation's most prestigious prosecutor's offices.
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Apr 16, 2025
Bernie Sanders and his apparent heir, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn enormous crowds on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, energizing a beaten-down Democratic Party.
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Apr 16, 2025
An arcane Senate tradition effectively gives senators veto power over nominees for U.S. attorney in their home states, providing Democrats a potential opening to stop President Trump's picks.
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Apr 15, 2025
David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party's older lawmakers in primaries.
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Apr 15, 2025
The Iowa Republican was pressed on President Trump's policies, including the case of a Salvadoran immigrant who his administration has admitted it mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador.
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Apr 15, 2025
Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was confronted by constituents who demanded that he help secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported last month.
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Apr 15, 2025
The House of Representatives went on recess without acting on a measure to avert a possible billion-dollar budget cut in Washington, D.C.
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Apr 15, 2025
Fire departments say prices for new engines have soared and orders are backlogged for years. Two senators are investigating whether investors who have disrupted the industry are the reason.
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Apr 14, 2025
Striving to stay relevant, the former congressman is showing how in Trump World, political resurrection remains a possibility, no matter how low you go.
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Apr 14, 2025
The Republican former congressman, who was narrowly beaten by Elissa Slotkin in a marquee Senate matchup in 2024, hopes to fill the seat being vacated by Senator Gary Peters.
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Apr 14, 2025
As he strives to stay relevant, Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman, is showing how, in Trump World, political resurrection remains a possibility, no matter how low you go.
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Apr 12, 2025
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Apr 11, 2025
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Apr 11, 2025
Conservatives in the House say they won't back any package without deep cuts that would all but certainly affect the health program. Some Senate Republicans say they won't accept such cuts.
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Apr 11, 2025
Lt. Gen. Dan Caine will serve as the senior military adviser to President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Apr 10, 2025
Two American Airlines jets clipped wings on a taxiway, officials said. Representative Grace Meng said that, in 10 years of flying to and from Washington, "This has never happened to me."
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Apr 10, 2025
A critical bloc of fiscal hawks dropped its opposition after a pledge from the top Senate Republican that his chamber would embrace far deeper cuts than the measure would require.
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Apr 10, 2025
House Republicans are so intent on avoiding tough votes on President Trump's tariffs that they have rewritten the calendar.
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Apr 10, 2025
The Texas Republican, a holdout on the plan until the end, said commitments from President Trump and G.O.P. senators to pursue deeper spending cuts persuaded him to vote yes.
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Apr 10, 2025
The A.T.F. has been hit by the departure of key career officials, the diversion of agents from core duties to immigration enforcement and from what amounts to a campaign of indifference.
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Apr 10, 2025
A new crop of Democrats are announcing runs for office — sometimes against incumbents — in an expression of frustration with the establishment.
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Apr 10, 2025
The House voted 216 to 214 to approve a budget blueprint, a first step towards passing President Trump's plans for spending and tax cuts.
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Apr 10, 2025
A critical bloc of fiscal hawks dropped its opposition after a pledge from the top Senate Republican that his chamber would embrace far deeper cuts than the measure would require.
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Apr 10, 2025
Most Republicans welcomed the unexpected three-month pause on several of President Trump's tariffs, but some want more clarity about the president's end game and more power for Congress over trade.
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Apr 10, 2025
Younger Democrats are announcing runs for office — sometimes against incumbents — in an expression of frustration with the establishment.
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Apr 09, 2025
After more than an hour of labored negotiations with conservative holdouts, House G.O.P. leaders yanked their blueprint for the president's tax and spending package, lacking the votes to pass it.
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Apr 09, 2025
The president further raised already steep tariffs on China, saying that Beijing should not have retaliated against his earlier trade actions.
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Apr 09, 2025
The House is preparing to vote on a budget blueprint, a first step towards passing President Trump's plans for spending and tax cuts.
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Apr 09, 2025
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who has twice launched to orbit in a SpaceX vehicle, faced pointed questions from senators of both parties before the Senate on Wednesday.
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Apr 09, 2025
President Trump's next round of tariffs on major trading partners went into effect just after midnight, bringing levies on China to at least 104 percent.
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Apr 09, 2025
A majority of House members backed changing the rules to allow new parents to vote remotely. But in a Congress dominated by far-right Republicans, parental leave was a bridge too far.
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Apr 09, 2025
Republicans scheduled a vote for Wednesday evening, but they were still at least a dozen votes short of a majority for their fiscal blueprint.
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Apr 09, 2025
Hard-line conservatives concerned about the deficit are among President Trump's most stalwart supporters in Congress. But they say they cannot in good conscience back the budget plan he has endorsed.
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Apr 09, 2025
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who has twice launched to orbit in a SpaceX vehicle, will testify before the Senate on Wednesday.
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Apr 08, 2025
The announcement by Mr. Paxton, the attorney general of Texas and a firebrand conservative, set up what is expected to be a blockbuster showdown in Texas.
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, and other Trump administration officials said the United States was ready to negotiate but that would not stop stiff tariffs from taking effect.
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, testified before senators as the Trump administration faced blowback from trading partners, businesses and investors over sweeping tariffs.
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Apr 08, 2025
Anti-spending conservatives in the House are lining up to oppose the Senate's budget blueprint because it would add too much to the nation's debt, threatening President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, told senators the U.S. economy was in need of "drastic, overdue change."
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Apr 08, 2025
Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, will tell senators the U.S. is economy is in need of "drastic, overdue change."
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Apr 08, 2025
The former New Hampshire governor had been seen as a top Republican recruit in the liberal-leaning yet competitive state. President Trump had said on Sunday, "I hope he runs."
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Apr 07, 2025
Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back after the speaker offered a narrower solution for new mothers.
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Apr 07, 2025
Democrats have argued that Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, did not act faster to fill the vacant seat because he didn't want the narrow Republicans majority in Congress to shrink.
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Apr 06, 2025
Senate Republicans are hoping to ice Democrats out from deciding the fate of President Trump's 2017 tax cuts, a move that Democrats could eventually use against them.
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Apr 06, 2025
States that were once reluctant to expand Medicaid now have their state budgets tied to the fate of the program by constitutional amendments.
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Apr 05, 2025
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.
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Apr 05, 2025
The disgraced former congressman is set to be sentenced on April 25. His lawyers asked for a penalty of two years, the minimum allowed.
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Apr 05, 2025
Republicans pushed through their blueprint for tax and spending cuts after Democrats forced them to cast politically painful votes into the early morning on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 04, 2025
With Republicans driving toward a vote on their tax and spending cut blueprint, Democrats are forcing them to cast politically painful votes on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 04, 2025
With Republicans driving toward a vote on their tax and spending cut blueprint, Democrats plan to force them to cast politically painful votes on every element of President Trump's agenda.
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Apr 04, 2025
Some Republicans are uneasy that their party is pursuing a tactic that could weaken the filibuster and backfire in the future.
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Apr 04, 2025
A law student in Florida has a lucrative side gig: fund-raising consultant. His firm earns a 25 percent cut of "profit" from donations, and critics have begun to pile up after two special elections.
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Apr 03, 2025
The president's comment was a rare instance in which he and House Speaker Mike Johnson were not on the same side of an issue.
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Apr 03, 2025
Mr. Pappas, a 44-year-old Democratic congressman, is the first major candidate to enter the race to succeed the retiring Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
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Apr 02, 2025
A measure to cancel some Canadian tariffs is all but certain to stall in the House. But with a handful of Republicans in favor, the vote sent a signal of opposition to the levies.
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Apr 02, 2025
G.O.P. leaders are planning to use the "nuclear option" to steer around the Senate's in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free.
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Apr 02, 2025
The Republican speaker, who has mostly wielded power by relying on the threat of retribution from President Trump, has chosen an institutional fight it's not clear he can win.
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Apr 02, 2025
What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks?
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Apr 02, 2025
Passage would send a strong signal of bipartisan opposition to the levies, though the measure would face long odds in the House.
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Apr 02, 2025
Energizados contra la nueva era Trump, y contra Elon Musk, los demócratas lograron una victoria judicial clave en Wisconsin y acortaron los márgenes republicanos en dos comicios al Congreso en Florida.
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Apr 02, 2025
The party's position remains dire. But a judicial victory in Wisconsin and closer-than-expected losses in Florida suggest a once-demoralized Democratic base is animated again.
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Apr 02, 2025
The 38-year-old Democratic state lawmaker says that her party needs a generational shift.
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Apr 02, 2025
Many Democrats, including in Mr. Booker's home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina and moxie as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record.
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Apr 02, 2025
Plus, Val Kilmer's legacy.
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Apr 02, 2025
Plus, Val Kilmer's legacy.
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Apr 02, 2025
In an interview, the Texas attorney general attacked Senator John Cornyn as out of touch, and said he had talked to people close to President Trump about an endorsement.
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Apr 01, 2025
Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.
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Apr 01, 2025
El senador por Nueva Jersey, Cory Booker, comenzó su discurso a las 7 p. m. del lunes, prometiendo hablar mientras fuera "físicamente capaz". El discurso duró más de 24 horas.
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Apr 01, 2025
The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump's backing.
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Apr 01, 2025
The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump's backing.
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