Tensions are rising between President Trump and Senate Republicans, and their disagreements spilled into public view this week when GOP senators repeatedly used amendment votes on a $70 billion budget reconciliation bill to create distance from the president.
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Republicans in Congress are staring down a busy to-do list now that they’re nearing the end of the arduous process to fund immigration enforcement agencies.
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President Trump upended expectations yet again when he told reporters Thursday that he would be “honored” to meet Iran’s supreme leader in the event of a peace deal.
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The U.S. military shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones Friday that were heading toward the Strait of Hormuz and posed an imminent threat to maritime traffic, according to the U.S. Central Command (Centcom).
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By Julia Manchester and Rachel Frazin
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President Trump’s focus on repair and beautification projects around Washington, D.C., risks backfiring on Republicans ahead of the midterms as the issue of affordability takes center stage across the country.
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By Julia Manchester and Mallory Wilson
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President Trump sought to appeal to farmers at a roundtable in Wisconsin on Friday amid skyrocketing fertilizer and energy prices as a result of the U.S. war in Iran.
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voted for a Democratic amendment Thursday to bar Bill Pulte from serving as temporary director of national intelligence while he also serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
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Two Senate Democrats on Thursday called on the Trump administration to stop the production of a 24-karat gold coin bearing President Trump’s image to commemorate America’s 250th birthday, with the lawmakers expressing concerns that some of the gold used by U.S. Mint could be traced to foreign cartels.
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The Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is effectively dead, the Justice Department (DOJ) told a federal court on Friday, while also asking it to reject a challenge brought by a former federal prosecutor and several others.
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By Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), opinion contributors
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OPINION | Within 55 minutes of each other, two members of Congress announced their resignations on April 13, 2026. These men — Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) — abused their power to prey on women staff.
Swalwell and Gonzales inflicted devastating trauma and lasting harm on the young women they abused. Yet it was these brave women and their loved ones speaking out, combined with the public outcry and impending expulsion resolutions that forced these abusers to resign.
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By Will Marshall, opinion contributor
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OPINION | President Trump’s shambolic mess of a second term is getting sucked into a political sinkhole. Polls show he is now underwater even among white working-class voters, the molten core of his populist insurgency.
This follows eroding support over the past year among independents, working-class Hispanics and young voters. Trump can still count on a solid MAGA base to vote out Republicans who don’t blindly obey his orders. But most Americans have turned thumbs down on his inflationary tariffs, capricious military attacks and brazen corruption.
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By Jazmine Ulloa and Edgar Sandoval
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For years, Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has been waging war on Democratic and Latino-led groups over “election integrity,” leaving a trail of ransacked residences, shellshocked volunteers, struggling organizations and indictments behind him.
But the stakes of the fight with groups determined to mobilize Texas’ fast-growing Hispanic electorate changed significantly last month when he won the Republican Party’s nomination for Senate.
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Kevin Warsh has been Federal Reserve chairman for two weeks. The bond market and the White House have already picked his first fight for him.
Friday’s strong jobs report pushed traders to raise bets on a rate increase by year-end, drew a public warning from a Fed voter that higher rates could be warranted this summer, and prompted one Wall Street bank to forecast a series of hikes beginning in December.
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Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, were told not to leave their homes after a “large-scale” Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city Saturday morning, underscoring Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia, a day after the Russian president refused an offer to meet his Ukrainian counterpart.
St. Petersburg Gov. Alexander Beglov advised the residents not to go outside and warned of possible disruptions to mobile internet service, while Regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko said 141 drones were shot down over the surrounding Leningrad region.
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California’s notoriously slow ballot count persists despite attempts to fix the problem, leaving key races in the Tuesday primary uncalled and unleashing a new round of baseless conspiracy theories.
Officials knew before the election that they would be accused of vote-rigging, as they have in past cycles in which Republicans lost ground as late ballots were counted. Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed bills aimed at a faster count. Last month, he urged election authorities to process ballots quickly.
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