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Trump administration releases after-school funding

By Terell Wright, Laura Meckler, Washington Post The Trump administration said Friday it would release $1.3 billion for after-school and summer programs, a slice of the nearly $7 billion in already appropriated funding that the administration has been holding back. Advocates who pressed for the money to be distributed celebrated the decision, while also demanding that […]

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Trump, Johnson rush to get House GOP holdouts to back tax bill

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 […]

New Mexico Senators condemn Trump tax and spending bill after Senate passage

Following the narrow passage of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill in the Senate, New Mexico’s Democratic Senators, Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich, have issued strong condemnations, warning of the potential negative impacts on New Mexican families and communities.  The bill passed with a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting the […]

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On Trump’s tax bill, GOP tries new accounting trick as national debt mounts

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 […]

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Senate Republicans close in on passing Trump’s massive tax bill

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 […]

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Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending

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 […]

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Supreme Court limits nationwide orders that have blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship ban

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 […]

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Rick Perry’s AI plan: A colossal nuclear campus in Trump’s image

By Evan Halper, Hannah Natanson A company led by former energy secretary and Texas governor Rick Perry has submitted a federal application to build a nuclear power complex on what sponsors say would be the world’s largest data-center campus – a project with a distinctly political veneer. Republican Perry is co-founder of Fermi America, a […]

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Trump’s Medicaid cuts could break the MAGA coalition

By Lakshya Jain, Harrison Lavelle — As Republicans crafted their One Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) offered a warning: “Our voters support social insurance programs. More than that, our voters depend on those programs.” While House Republicans ignored his pleas, opting to pass a bill with cuts to Medicaid that the Congressional Budget […]