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By Marianna Sotomayor, Jacob Bogage House Republicans leaders rushed Wednesday to build support for President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration legislation, as dozens of lawmakers remain against the bill. Lawmakers with objections to the Senate bill – which would extend trillions of dollars in tax cuts, while strengthening immigration enforcement and defense – are […]

By Jacob Bogage, Senate Republicans’ vote Monday to advance President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration agenda throughan unusual accounting maneuverthat circumvents the filibuster creates a new precedent in Congress that may constrain lawmakers’ ability to control the nation’s poor financial health. Major tax cuts from Trump’s first term are set to expire at the […]

By Jacob Bogage Republicans hope they are hours away Monday from notching the first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term as the Senate steams toward a vote on the White House’s massive tax and immigration agenda. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would extend tax cuts passed in 2017, enact campaign promises such […]

By: Justin Jouvenal, Beth Reinhard The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates on advertising and other communications. The case has the potential to reshape election spending […]

By Ann E. Marimow The Supreme Court on Friday backed President Donald Trump’s request to scale back lower-court orders that have for months blocked the administration’s ban on automatic citizenship for the U.S.-born babies of undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors, ruling that those nationwide injunctions went too far. The 6-3 decision, with the liberal justices […]