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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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Jun 21, 2025
The ruling by the parliamentarian sent G.O.P. lawmakers back to the drawing board to cover the costs of President Trump's domestic policy bill.
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Jun 20, 2025
The Wisconsin Republican has toned down attacks on the measure in recent days, but a new report he released undermines party leaders' claims that the legislation won't add to federal deficits.
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Jun 20, 2025
Republicans plan to terminate billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits. Experts say that will mean more greenhouse gas emissions and more dangerous heat.
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Jun 20, 2025
Nine members of Congress are accusing the federal authorities of blocking their right to examine conditions at what is supposed to be a temporary stop for detained immigrants.
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Jun 20, 2025
Failing to aggressively defend Congress's role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.
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Jun 19, 2025
The policy says that ICE field offices are not subject to a federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that "detain or otherwise house aliens."
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Jun 19, 2025
Children with disabilities and their parents who rely on the health insurance program took to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the proposed reductions could be ‘devastating.'
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Jun 19, 2025
A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase could make it hard for Republicans to maintain their fiscal hawk credibility.
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Jun 18, 2025
Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, asked Secretary Pete Hegseth if he had given troops deployed domestically orders "to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way?"
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Jun 18, 2025
The decision to declare war rests with Congress alone.
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Jun 18, 2025
It's time for the legislative branch to step up.
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Jun 18, 2025
It's time for the legislative branch to step up.
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Jun 18, 2025
Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota learned that her friend was assassinated, and that she had been a potential target herself. Now, she has blunt thoughts on who bears blame for violent outbursts.
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Jun 17, 2025
The bill was a significant step toward giving the cryptocurrency industry the credibility and legitimacy it has sought, without limitations it has worked to head off.
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Jun 17, 2025
The updated findings from the Congressional Budget Office amounted to the latest dour report card for the president's signature legislation.
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Jun 17, 2025
A bipartisan pair in the House and a Democrat in the Senate have moved to force votes in the coming days on requiring congressional approval before U.S. troops could take offensive action against Iran.
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Jun 17, 2025
Senate Democrats on Tuesday called on Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, to testify at a hearing on Capitol Hill about the forcible removal of Senator Alex Padilla of California from a news conference she was holding last week.
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Jun 17, 2025
A Capitol security official briefed senators on enhanced security precautions, and lawmakers in both parties said more funding was needed to protect themselves.
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Jun 17, 2025
Party lawmakers proposed changes to the tax code that could offer the greatest benefit to businesses.
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Jun 17, 2025
Plus, streaming's TV takeover.
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Jun 16, 2025
The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more slowly, making up some of the cost by imposing deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed bill would.
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Jun 16, 2025
A Senate tax package softens some blows imposed on renewables by a House version of the bill. But it still terminates many credits for clean power.
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Jun 16, 2025
The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more slowly, making up some of the cost by imposing deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed bill would.
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Jun 16, 2025
A resolution by Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia would require congressional approval before U.S. troops could engage in hostilities against Iran. He said Americans don't want another "forever war."
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Jun 14, 2025
The senator from Alaska reflects on her many years in Washington and what is happening in the country right now.
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Jun 13, 2025
Some Republican senators are voicing concern over the House-passed bill that would rescind $9 billion that Congress already approved, including money for NPR and PBS stations in their states.
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Jun 13, 2025
The senator is known on Capitol Hill for being kind and nerdy. His forcible removal from a news conference resonated as a call to action among Democrats.
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Jun 13, 2025
Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forced to the floor, handcuffed and removed by federal agents after interrupting a news conference by the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday.
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Jun 13, 2025
Plus, Friday's news quiz.
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Jun 12, 2025
The provision, long advocated by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, would revive and broaden a law for compensating those who developed serious illnesses from government-caused nuclear contamination.
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Jun 12, 2025
Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forcibly removed from an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, forced to the floor and handcuffed.
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Jun 12, 2025
Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was shoved out of a room and handcuffed after he disrupted Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, during a news conference.
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Jun 12, 2025
Republicans whose constituents rely on nutritional assistance worry that cuts to those programs approved by the House will saddle their states with huge costs and harm low-income children.
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Jun 12, 2025
Mr. Padilla, Democrat of California, was shoved out of a room and handcuffed after he disrupted Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, during a news conference.
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Jun 12, 2025
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the richer Americans were, the more they would benefit from the measure carrying President Trump's agenda. And the poorest would lose out altogether.
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Jun 11, 2025
G.O.P. senators are considering whether to further curb the president's favorite tax cuts as they rewrite key portions of the sprawling domestic agenda bill passed by the House.
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Jun 11, 2025
Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately.
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Jun 10, 2025
Senators criticized the head of the National Institutes of Health for not taking responsibility for Trump administration cuts to research funding.
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Jun 10, 2025
A youth movement in Iowa is aiming to appeal to voters who have abandoned Democrats in the Trump era. There are pitfalls for people who grew up sharing everything online.
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Jun 09, 2025
There's an undercurrent of Democratic support for elements of President Trump's tax agenda, a dynamic that Republicans are trying to exploit as they make the case for enactment of their sprawling domestic legislation.
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Jun 07, 2025
Before they can run in 2028, numerous top Democrats will first face re-election in 2026. And for everyone, the midterms will serve as a new political proving ground.
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Jun 07, 2025
Critics say proposals to restrict or even ban Chinese student visas take a "sledgehammer to a problem that needs highly targeted tools."
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Jun 06, 2025
Once a seemingly offhand remark at a campaign rally, President Trump's pledge to not tax overtime could become federal law.
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Jun 06, 2025
The senator said that the GENIUS Act, as it's written, should be struck down, fearing that it would be a "huge giveaway to Big Tech."
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