To understand the conundrum House Republicans have gotten themselves into as they try to pass their budget plan next week, look no further than Representative David Valadao of California. Almost nowhere in the nation relies as heavily on Medicaid as […]
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The budget plan that Republicans pushed through the Senate early Friday was a necessary first step toward enacting President Trump’s ambitious domestic goals, but it punted the most difficult and divisive questions about how Congress will do so for another
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The Senate on Tuesday evening voted on party lines to adopt a budget outline designed to clear the way for a major piece of President Trump’s domestic agenda, putting forth a measure that calls for increasing spending on immigration enforcement
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Washington – Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday won re-election to the top post in the House, salvaging his job in a dramatic last-minute turnabout by putting down a revolt from conservatives who initially voted to block his ascent. Johnson barely
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Just minutes after Speaker Mike Johnson could exhale, having put down a short-lived conservative revolt and won re-election to his post on Friday, hard-right lawmakers sent him a letter. It was not congratulatory. They had only voted for him, they
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Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the only Republican so far to publicly commit to opposing the re-election of Speaker Mike Johnson to his leadership post. “You can pull all my fingernails out; you can shove bamboo up in them;
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John Thune won election to the Senate in 2004 by conquering Senator Tom Daschle, the powerful Democratic majority leader, only to quickly face a mortal threat to his political future when a major Air Force base in his state was
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