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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as a “scam” and a “deal with the devil” in a fiery speech Wednesday on the House floor.

As the sprawling bill inches toward passage, ...Read more

There are so many losers and so few winners in Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that it's a minor miracle that, as of this writing, Republicans appear poised to pass it. I'm old enough to remember when Republicans ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition to the GOP’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill appeared to be softening Wednesday night after President Donald Trump and White House budget director Russ Vought spent hours ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ACLU of Missouri on Wednesday sued to block a proposed abortion ban from reaching the statewide ballot next year, marking the first major legal challenge intended to halt a Republican-led attempt ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his threat to arrest the Democratic mayoral nominee if he got in the way of ICE ...Read more

More than 21,000 undocumented people in Colorado could lose Medicaid coverage if the Republicans’ bill to extend 2017 tax cuts makes it through the final gauntlet in Congress.

H.R. 1, the legislation formerly known as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan Democrats criticized the Senate's changes to President Donald Trump's massive tax and border bill as it returned Wednesday to the House, where the state's Republican lawmakers were working to bring ...Read more

One of Haiti’s staunchest advocates in Congress wants to force the Trump administration to come up with a clear U.S. strategy for helping the gang-ridden Caribbean nation return to stability — and to consult with ...Read more

As Republican leaders in the House worked Wednesday to drum up the votes to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, which comes with substantial cuts to programs like Medicaid, two Virginians could ...Read more

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern in the office of Rep. Ron Estes, was shot and killed in Northwest D.C. on Monday night, Metropolitan Police and the Kansas Republican confirmed.

Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was a Granby, Mass., ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Andy Harris was a key player during tax and spending bill negotiations on Wednesday, withholding support for the legislation while hoping each passing moment would improve the prospects of adding new ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Colleges and universities are bracing for change after the massive policy bill passed the U.S. Senate this week, including serious cuts and restrictions to federal student loan programs, expansions to Pell ...Read more

Every Fourth of July, Erwin Knoll, the late editor of The Progressive magazine, would host a party. He’d grill burgers and brats and tack copies of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights to trees in his ...Read more

A Nevada lawmaker and a downtown Las Vegas casino owner are among those united in opposition to a provision in the proposed federal budget bill that would limit declarable losses for gamblers.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans were scrambling Wednesday to salvage their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill amid a revolt from conservatives over the measure’s growing price tag.

President Donald Trump and Republican...Read more

WASHINGTON — The fate of the Big Beautiful Bill rests with a handful of Republicans such as David Valadao whose political future could well be determined by how it affects his Central Valley constituents’ healthcare, ...Read more

Critics blasted Paramount Global's decision to pay $16 million to settle President Donald Trump's lawsuit over "60 Minutes" edits, calling the move a "spineless capitulation" that erodes U.S. press freedoms.

Paramount ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and House Republican leaders hope the president can be the party’s closer Wednesday as he tries to personally convince enough conservative and moderate holdouts to push his domestic policy ...Read more

That deep-bass rumble you may have been hearing since June 24 is the sound of heads exploding on Wall Street and in certain Democratic Party smoke-filled rooms, provoked by the victory of self-described "democratic ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As Republicans now face an open race for their party’s nomination for U.S. Senate next year, the one name that has shot to the top of the list is Lara Trump.

The president’s daughter-in-law co-...Read more