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Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly voted to advance a sprawling 1,000-page bill to enact President Trump's agenda, despite the opposition of two GOP lawmakers. The vote was 51-49. Two Republicans voted against advancing the package: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who opposes a provision to raise the debt limit by $5 trillion and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who says the legislation would cost his state $38.9 trillion in federal Medicaid funding. |
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Democrats bashing President Trump for striking Iran without congressional consent are bumping into an inconvenient history: Democratic presidents have done the same thing for decades.
From Bill Clinton, to Barack Obama, to (most recently) Joe Biden, every Democratic president of the modern era has employed U.S. military forces to attack targets overseas, including strikes in Bosnia, Syria, Libya and Yemen. While they sought approval from Capitol Hill in some of those cases, Congress never provided it. |
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President Trump made waves this week when he used the f-word while updating reporters on efforts to settle Iran's military conflict with Israel. "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f‑‑‑ they're doing," Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a NATO summit on Monday as the Middle East rivals appeared to waffle on their temporary truce after the U.S. bombed Iran's key nuclear sites over the weekend. |
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President Trump is seeing warning signs emerge from independent voters as his approval rating weakens with the key voting bloc. Trump's net approval among unaffiliated voters reached its lowest level of his second term on Tuesday, according to an aggregate from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), with his disapproval rating surpassing 60 percent for the first time since he took office. This has accompanied a wider decline in his overall approval rating throughout June. |
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The Senate's version of the "big, beautiful bill" is facing serious headwinds in the House with The Hill learning that at least six House Republicans are currently a "no" on the framework, a daunting sign for GOP leadership as the Senate races towards a vote. Those six House Republicans, some of whom requested anonymity, are enough opposition to tank the package, as GOP leaders grapple with a razor-thin majority. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who was one of two GOP lawmakers to oppose the House version of the bill last month, is also likely to oppose the Senate's edition, deepening the pocket of resistance in the lower chamber. |
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President Trump went after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in a Saturday night Truth Social post, threatening that he would back a primary challenger running against the North Carolina senator after Tillis came out against the GOP's sprawling "big, beautiful bill." "Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against 'Senator Thom' Tillis," Trump wrote. "I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the Great People of North Carolina and, so importantly, the United States of America." |
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The Senate removed a controversial provision from its megabill that would have sold off hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who was leading the push on the measure, announced late Saturday that the measure would be stripped from the bill. |
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) told Democratic senators Saturday that he will force the clerks to read the 1,000-page Republican megabill on the Senate floor once Republicans vote to proceed to the legislation, a procedural act of defiance that will take an estimated 12 hours and delay final passage of President Trump's agenda by half a day — at least. Schumer told his caucus to prepare to force a full reading of the bill, according to a Democratic source familiar with the internal discussion over floor strategy. |
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Political commentator Tucker Carlson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday both praised New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani after his victory in the Democratic primary this week. "That guy was the only person in the New York City mayor's debate to say he wanted to focus on New York City. They were, all the candidates were asked if you could visit a foreign country, what would it be? And they all, of course, all had an answer. I think most said Israel," Carlson said during the Friday episode of "The Tucker Carlson Show." |
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OPINION | The knives are out for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Trump's $500 million political machine has Kentucky's 4th District in its crosshairs, and the establishment media is already writing the congressman's obituary. But they're missing the real story here. This isn't about one maverick politician bucking the system. This is about the soul of the Republican Party, and whether it still has one. |
OPINION | I have a client in New Jersey who manufactures industrial films. A big source of their supply comes from two Chinese companies. You would think with President Trump's tariffs they would be suffering, right? Luckily, the owner of the company (and her partner) paid attention. Going all the way back to 2023 they knew — like we all knew — that the presidential election would be tight. By mid-2024 it got even tighter. And what was then-candidate Trump saying back then? |
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The Islamic Republic limps on after the 12-day conflict. Where will the nation go from here? |
BY RICHARD RUBIN, SIOBHAN HUGHES AND KATY STECH FEREK |
The initial procedural vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was 51-49, offering a stark preview of the difficulties party leaders face in getting the measure passed into law. |
BY LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING AND JOEY CAPPELLETTI |
Senate Republicans voting in a dramatic late Saturday session narrowly cleared a key procedural step as they race to advance President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline. |
BY JACOB BOGAGE AND THEODORIC MEYER |
Lawmakers pushed through the president's massive tax and immigration legislation in a crucial procedural vote Saturday night. But the bill's final passage is far from assured. |
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