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Live updates: House passes Republican megabill and sends it to Trump; Hakeem Jeffries delays vote with record-breaking floor speech
Live updates and the latest news as the House approaches a final passage vote on the Trump-backed "big, beautiful bill" after ...
I’m an Economist. The GOP Budget Undeniably Takes From the Working Class and Gives to the Rich
Take one jarring symmetry: the spending cuts to health care and food assistance programs in the bill will average about $120 ...
The GOP’s $4.5 trillion spending bill creates a parallel, harsher tax system for immigrants and their relatives
The bill just passed by the Senate excludes immigrants and their citizen relatives from certain tax credits while ...
Texas would get iconic space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian under Trump’s budget bill
The Senate narrowly passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Tuesday with a provision setting aside $85 million to move Discovery ...
Republican budget bill would slaughter America’s cleanest, cheapest energy
That’s not even remotely true. Authoritative sources, including the investment bank Lazard, report that solar and wind are ...
Inside the CBO score that became ammo for both sides and nearly blew up the GOP’s flagship bill
How the CBO gets to these figures is at the center of a long-running debate in Washington, because these estimates often ...
CNN Host Grills Fence-Sitting GOP Rep Over Budget Indecision
During a tense interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Wednesday night’s OutFront, Burchett said he was still “firmly ...
Unpacking claims nursing homes say they will 'close their doors' if GOP passes budget bill
A June 2025 survey by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) found that 27% of nursing home providers said they would ...