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The Trump administration's proposed cuts to medical research and health agencies will curtail the development of promising medications, the Congressional Budget Office said on Friday.
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President Trump's request to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed despite objections from Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch's power of the purse.
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As the GOP probe into Biden's mental acuity and use of an autopen expands, a growing number of his top aides are being swept up in a thorny legal predicament.
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The 51-to-48 vote came over the objections of two Republicans. The House is expected to give final approval to the package later this week, sending it to Mr. Trump for his signature.
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The White House is trying to calm a furor following a Wall Street Journal report that said Trump wrote a bawdy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Senate voted 51 to 48 to reclaim spending previously approved by Congress.
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An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California's so-called sanctuary state law.
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"The most important thing that we have to do right now is hold the Republicans that voted for this bill accountable for the devastation that they are causing and the lives that will be impacted." Democratic Congressmember Yassamin Ansari of Arizona explains how Trump's new federal budget, which introduces major cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, housing and education, will worsen wealth inequality and the health disparities, while actually increasing the U.S. deficit by trillions of dollars and supercharging spending for immigration and border enforcement. The congressmember shares her recent experience visiting a detention center outside of Phoenix, calling some of the conditions there the most "dehumanizing" she has ever seen. Ansari, the first Iranian American Democrat to serve as a member of Congress, also condemns the Trump administration's strikes on Iran in June. "I do not believe that the president of the United States should be conducting unilateral military action without authorization from Congress," she says.
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