Hayes Brown

House Republicans passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the legislative vehicle for President Donald Trump’s agenda, on a party-line vote early Thursday morning. The massive package is now Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s to handle. The […]

The Senate unexpectedly passed the No Tax on Tips Act on Tuesday, moving one of President Donald Trump’s major campaign promises much closer to becoming law. Adding to the surprise was the way it advanced: Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Nevada

Since her confirmation as secretary of homeland security in January, Kristi Noem has appeared completely over her head at her new job. Most recently, when asked to define the legal principle of “habeas corpus,” the former South Dakota governor —

House Republicans are steaming ahead with their megabill containing the bulk of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. As of Tuesday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is hoping to get the roughly 1,100-page bill through the House and over to the

Rep. Chip Roy of Texas had major problems with the bill his fellow Republicans presented to the House Budget Committee on Friday. On paper, the legislative package for President Donald Trump’s agenda slashes more than a trillion dollars in federal

House Republicans are spending this week finalizing their partisan budget plan, looking for places to cut spending to pay for its massive tax cut bill. Alongside Medicaid, Republicans have made the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) a prime target of

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump’s trade strategy has largely revolved around poorly solving the problems of his own creation. Just in the last week we’ve seen him trumpet supposedly historic deals that, on closer inspection, fail to even

The Senate voted on Friday afternoon to move forward with a Republican short-term funding bill and avoid a federal government shutdown. Ten Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted in favor of cloture, limiting further debate and advancing the

Since the 1990s, threats to shut down the federal government have come almost entirely from congressional Republicans. Time and again, House Democrats have provided the votes needed to avert a shutdown crisis. But on Tuesday that script flipped, and only one

It turns out that amid President Donald Trump’s zeal for mass deportations, there’s at least one group of immigrants he is happy to rush toward American citizenship. In a post to his Truth Social account on Friday morning, he wrote