A key committee vote for the Republican package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities scheduled for Friday could be punted to next week as hardliners on the panel threaten to block the legislation.
“I haven’t given up yet. But there are concerns about having to get more information, which would potentially delay this to next week, so we’ll see,” House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said Thursday.
The possible delay comes after a wave of h...
Trump package to be changed to appease recalcitrant Republicans
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday signaled that changes will be made to the party’s mega-bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities in order to win support from conservative and moderate Republicans balking at some of its provisions.
Those alterations, he warned, will not only include a larger tax break for blue states that several Republican moderates are demanding but also steeper spending cuts elsewhere in the bill, as fiscal hawks raise alarm that the ...
Supreme Court decisions: Top cases to watch
Decision season starts Thursday for the Supreme Court, kicking off a race against the clock to release this term’s opinions before the court’s summer break begins.
The justices are set to hand down major decisions implicating the role of religion in public life, efforts to restrict gender-affirming care and a host of environmental issues.
Here’s a look at the major cases this term:
Gender-affirming careCase name: United Stat...
House GOP advances Medcaid cuts
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Celsius, compression socks and Cava: How lawmakers survived an all-nighter
The House Energy and Commerce Committee burned the midnight oil.
The panel — which has jurisdiction over one of the largest parts of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” — held an around-the-clock markup this week, kicking off the action at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and continuing through the night before finally wrapping up at roughly 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
The 26.5 hour confab was not the panel’s longest. That distinction belongs to a 2017 markup of the Republicans’ bill to re...
Republicans advance bill with steep cuts to Medicaid as part of Trump agenda
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced legislation Wednesday afternoon containing cuts to Medicaid and health care provisions — some of the most controversial and contentious provisions that will be included in the "big, beautiful bill" of President Trump's ambitious legislative agenda.
The panel voted along party lines 30-24 after a marathon meeting that lasted more than 26 hours with just two breaks for House votes. The bill now heads to the ...
GOP senators raise red flags over House’s ambitious Trump legislative package
An ambitious House bill to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars and pay for part of it by slashing Medicaid spending faces a rocky path in the Senate, where Republican lawmakers warn the changes to the safety net program could hurt rural hospitals and reduce benefits for their constituents.
Republican senators are also raising red flags about the House plan’s phase-out of renewable energy tax credits and what they’re calling an inadequate attempt to reduce the ballo...
GOP makes biggest bet yet pairing Trump tax rates with Medicaid cuts
Republicans on Capitol Hill are betting the farm on President Trump’s domestic agenda.
The massive legislative package features the tax cuts, energy production and immigration crackdown that helped Trump secure a second term, and GOP leaders in the Capitol are eager to pass it quickly to boost an embattled White House ally whose approval ratings have fallen underwater.
But there are hazards lurking as well.
To offset the massive cost of...
A Medicaid fix without the tricks
Republicans want to save $880 billion over 10 years in the Medicaid program. Politicians often turn to using various tricks and gimmicks to create the illusion of budgetary savings. But Medicaid is so large and has expanded so far past its original target population that Republicans can find those savings without relying on accounting gimmicks or price controls.
All they need is to implement three long-held Republican ideas.
The first is to bl...
Morning Report — House GOP bill: One big experiment?
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