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House Republicans are in the final rounds of negotiations over a sweeping budget plan that has been significantly influenced by President Donald Trump's priorities.
Republicans continue to make progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security, though considerable divisions remain as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to bridge the differences in his conference.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court for a status conference on the Trump administration’s charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week.
Negotiations continued in Congress as Republicans aimed to pass President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.”
There were cheers when Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump’s package past overwhelming Democratic opposition.
Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding.
President Donald Trump’s agreement with China to temporarily slash tariffs for 90 days offered the world a bit of welcome relief.
House Republicans have proposed cutting billions of dollars in funding for Biden-era climate and environmental programs, including clean energy tax credits.
House Republicans have unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”.
The Republican Party is trying to figure out what it stands for in terms of economic policy during the second Trump administration.
After flirting with raising the tax rate for the wealthiest earners, President Donald Trump is backing off that call — sort of.
As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.
House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.
House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.
Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump’s 100 days in office have been an assault of Americans’ very way of life.
Republicans in Congress are working to pump billions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and border security program.
The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” has been presented with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Republican members of Congress have gone to great lengths to avoid public meetings with their constituents over their two-week Easter recess.
In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District of Columbia Council are scrambling to address a financial crisis created when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives recessed without voting to fix a hole in the city budget.
A bipartisan group of representatives have forced a delay in Congress over a proposed rule that would let new parents cast their vote by proxy.
House Republicans have abruptly postponed a late evening vote on their budget framework as grave misgivings from conservative GOP lawmakers threw it in flux.
As news that President Donald Trump was backing down on most of his tariffs reached a luncheon of Senate Republicans Wednesday, the room reacted with relief, cheers and smiles.
House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself in a familiar jam, with conservative Republican holdouts stalling action on President Donald Trump’s “big” bill of tax breaks and spending reductions.
The White House is sending mixed messages on tariffs as it pursues conflicting goals, frustrating foreign leaders and business executives who are desperate for clarity on a generational overhaul of international trade.
Republicans in Congress are watching with unease as stock markets tumble in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.
After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trump’s ”“big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts.
President Donald Trump has announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — including a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others.
House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a decisive defeat after he tried and failed to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.
President Donald Trump is pushing the House of Representatives to pass a measure that would prevent immediate financial disaster for the District of Columbia.
Angry over the crush of court rulings against the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress are trying to slap back at the federal judiciary.
Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to formulate a response to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government as one group takes a front and center role: military veterans.
The Supreme Court seems closely divided over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district.
Republican U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy says the country risks drifting toward authoritarianism if the executive branch isn't brought under control.
In two congressional districts and vastly different political environments, two Republicans were met with far different reactions at public meetings they held late last week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the government.
President Donald Trump in recent days has dismissed fears of a recession and brushed aside the stock market sell-off, going so far as to say, “You can’t really watch the stock market.”.
The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.
The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.
The chairman of the House Republican campaign committee is already predicting his party will pick up seats in the midterm election that are some 20 months away.
House Republicans have unveiled a 99-page spending bill that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30.
Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers that he's not to blame for the firings of thousands of federal workers as he pushes to downsize the government.
The House has voted to censure Al Green, a Democratic congressman from Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress earlier in the week.
The chief of staff to House Speaker Mike Johnson was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing into a police vehicle following President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.
President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers, as worries persist that the newly launched trade war could crush domestic manufacturing.
Rep. Al Green of Texas wasn’t the first lawmaker ever to blurt out a protest during a presidential address to Congress.
A president’s address to Congress — even without the formal gloss of a State of the Union address — is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong.
Columbia University has become the first target in President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut federal money to colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging Republican lawmakers to skip town halls that have been rife with protesters.
Melania Trump says it’s “heartbreaking” to see teens and especially girls grapple with the fallout after they’re targeted by malicious and sexually explicit online content.
President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver a speech to Congress.
President Donald Trump’s senior aides and allies are criticizing Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
There's a mid-March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional Republicans about potential cuts to Medicaid.
Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, it is time for hard work.
With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans have sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage, a step toward delivering Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”.
House Republicans have muscled their budget blueprint to passage, with a push from President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump’s week included rewriting U.S. policy toward Russia and firing the country's senior military officer.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly $40 billion in aid to help the Los Angeles area recover from January’s devastating wildfires.
The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the nearly all-night debate encompassed so much more.
Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage over Democratic objections after a nearly all-night vote.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has teed up a vote on a budget plan that sets the stage for a massive boost in defense and border security spending, and leaves a looming tax cut fight for later this year.
Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, jeopardizing health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.
It's been nearly a month in office for President Donald Trump, and he's acted with dizzying speed to reorder the American economy and global diplomacy.
House Republicans have set the stage for advancing many of President Donald Trump’s top domestic priorities.
While Democrats have been speaking out against President Donald Trump's federal cuts, Republicans are just beginning to stir.
Senate Republicans are vowing to move quickly on a budget plan that could pave the way for about $340 billion in additional border security and defense spending.
Donald Trump made history Sunday as the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl.
President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while his ally and adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce.
Talks on a spending bill for the current budget year have bogged down in the wake of President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash federal spending and its workforce.
The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday.
House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending.
President Donald Trump hosted an unusually long meeting with House Republicans at the White House on Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s early moves, such as trying to slash the federal government and imposing tariffs on key allies, are testing how far Republicans are willing to go in supporting his supercharged “Make America Great Again” agenda.
U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump administration ordered employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job and out of the field, all but shutting down the organization’s six-decade mission.
Congress is proving little match for the Department of Government Efficiency as wary lawmakers watch it march through the bureaucracy.
Palestinians, their allies and other nations are reacting strongly to President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its residents.
