WASHINGTON: With an uncharacteristically feistiness, speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Trump’s breakup with billionaire Elon Musk.The Republican House leader and staunch Trump ally said Musk’s criticism of GOP’s massive tax and budget policy bill will not derail the measure, and he downplayed Musk’s influence over GOP-controlled Congress. “I didn’t go out […]
Donald Trump is optimistic that the Big Beautiful Bill will be passed by July 4 US President Donald Trump’s prized legislative package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, may have passed the House after months of internal party wrangling, but the path forward in the Senate remains anything but certain. Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin […]
WASHINGTON: Moving into an all-night session early Thursday, House Republicans reconvened to push ahead on their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the sceptics within his ranks and working to muscle President Donald Trump‘s priority bill to passage. Johnson and his GOP leadership team appeared confident after a lengthy White House meeting […]
Mike Johnson failed to get all Republicans on board for the voting of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill. President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ that had several proposals, including MAGA accounts with $1K for newborns were rejected by the House Budget Committee after Speaker Mike Johnson and his team failed to bring several Republical opponents on […]
House Republicans on Monday proposed a series of sharp restrictions on the federal anti-hunger program known as food stamps, seeking to limit its funding and benefits as part of a sprawling package to advance President Trump’s tax cuts. The proposal, included in a draft measure to be considered by the House Agriculture Committee this week, […]
As President Trump moves unilaterally to slash the federal bureaucracy and upend longstanding policies, Republicans in Congress have embarked on a spree of deregulation, using an obscure law to quietly but steadily chip away at Biden-era rules they say are hurting businesses and consumers. In recent weeks, the G.O.P. has pushed through a flurry of […]
NEW YORK: The Campaign Against Hunger was already struggling to feed thousands of families a week when the Trump administration pulled more than $1.3 million in grants. Demand has only increased at the New York nonprofit since the city emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic insecurity. In a first for the pantry, […]
House Republicans on Tuesday quietly closed off a way for members of Congress to force votes demanding information from the Trump administration, the latest instance of the G.O.P. preemptively ceding the legislative branch’s powers to avoid challenging President Trump. The move temporarily blocked an effort by Democrats on the Armed Services Committee to compel the […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans have triggered growing anxiety among Americans, with many blaming his policies for worsening economic conditions, even as most Republicans continue to back his strategy. According to a CBS News/YouGov poll, the country remains sharply divided on whether Trump has […]
Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer Hegseth reportedly attended two high-level military meetings. After the Wall Street Journal reported exclusively that defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who is already facing the heat for the alleged leak of the Yemen war plan, brought his wife to meetings with foreign military counterparts, the MAGA machinery pushed back and said former […]
