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Jul 05, 2025
The big, beautiful bill is a horror. It's also an opportunity.
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Jul 05, 2025
A road map for undoing the damage.
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Jul 04, 2025
President Trump triumphantly highlighted tax cuts in the legislation while downplaying cuts to Medicaid and other assistance for poor Americans.
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Jul 04, 2025
Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president.
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Jul 03, 2025
The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach.
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Jul 03, 2025
Social work majors might struggle to get student loans. University endowments would be more heavily taxed. But students in some training programs would become eligible for Pell Grants.
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Jul 03, 2025
Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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Jul 03, 2025
The wide-ranging domestic policy legislation could impact taxes, clean energy choices, health care access and more.
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Jul 03, 2025
After a tumultuous day, an overnight cliffhanger of a vote and a record-breaking speech, Republicans finally managed to wear down internal resistance and muscle their domestic policy bill through the House.
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Jul 03, 2025
Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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Jul 03, 2025
The House voted 218 to 214 to pass President Trump's sweeping domestic policy package.
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Jul 03, 2025
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech that lasted nearly nine hours.
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Jul 03, 2025
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech, saying he would take his "sweet time" assailing the measure.
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Jul 03, 2025
President Trump has spent days cajoling Republicans to support his spending bill. He will also have to sell it to the public as Democrats focus on all the ways it helps the wealthy.
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Jul 03, 2025
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.
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Jul 03, 2025
The action suggested a breakthrough on the party's signature legislation that came after House Republican leaders haggled into the early morning hours with conservatives holdouts.
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Jul 02, 2025
To secure a key vote, an "absurd policy" was created that winds up encouraging states to make more mistakes.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill. They left with signed merchandise and photos of the Oval Office.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump is using his July 4 deadline as a cudgel to pass his signature domestic policy bill.
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Jul 02, 2025
If members of the House demand changes to the legislation the Senate has passed, the two chambers will have to work out their differences in what could be a prolonged negotiation, potentially killing the effort.
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Jul 02, 2025
The House remained frozen in place all day Wednesday as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdouts who were resisting changes the Senate made to the party's major policy bill.
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Jul 02, 2025
Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party's agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
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Jul 02, 2025
The speaker's struggle to bring his party's sprawling domestic policy bill in for a landing was just the latest in his string of near-death legislative experiences.
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Jul 02, 2025
Democrats are sharpening their political arguments against their opposition as the president's major policy bill moves through Congress.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump met with Republican lawmakers in hopes of bridging deep divisions over the legislation that would enact his domestic agenda.
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Jul 02, 2025
Readers criticize several aspects of the Trump policy bill. Also: In praise of U.S.A.I.D.
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Jul 02, 2025
Several conservative House Republicans expressed grave reservations about changes the Senate made to the party's major policy bill, leaving its fate and the timing of any final vote uncertain.
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Jul 02, 2025
The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump's agenda passed in the Senate. It now goes to the House. Plus, we take a close look at this Supreme Court term.
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Jul 02, 2025
Plus, the science of staying cool.
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Jul 02, 2025
The policy bill passed by the Senate could reshape the country's finances for a generation.
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Jul 02, 2025
But the benefits of the deduction, estimated to cost $31 billion over four years, may be limited to a narrow slice of consumers, economists say.
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Jul 02, 2025
The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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Jul 02, 2025
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
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Jul 02, 2025
Hundreds of flights to Washington were canceled because of severe weather, forcing some members of the House to set off on hourslong drives to the Capitol.
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Jul 02, 2025
Hundreds of flights to Washington were canceled because of severe weather, forcing some members of the House to set off on hourslong drives to the Capitol.
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Jul 01, 2025
Trump's "big beautiful bill" would gut Medicaid, nutrition assistance and clean energy credits. All for what?
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators cast 43 recorded votes during a marathon session on President Trump's domestic policy bill, nearly reaching the 44-vote record from 2008. The session lasted roughly 27 hours without a recess.
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Jul 01, 2025
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Republican Party.
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Jul 01, 2025
To meet the president's Friday deadline, the speaker will have to corral his party into accepting a bill several have criticized.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Alaska Republican, a frequent critic of the president who is often a swing vote, acknowledged the bill would harm Americans but backed it after winning carve outs for her state.
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Jul 01, 2025
The sprawling legislation that Republicans expended extraordinary effort to muscle through the Senate was a high-stakes risk that is likely to have major consequences for the party and the country.
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Jul 01, 2025
By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina defied the president on his signature measure.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Senate passed President Trump's marquee bill to slash taxes and social safety net programs after more than 24 hours of debate and negotiations. It must now go to the house for final approval.
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Jul 01, 2025
Senators cast 49 votes during a marathon session on President Trump's domestic policy bill. Vice President JD Vance cast the deciding vote on the final version after roughly 27 hours without a recess.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Senate voted 51 to 50 to pass President Trump's sweeping domestic policy package.
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Jul 01, 2025
Party leaders were able to muscle through considerable internal rifts, but the bill's fate in the House was uncertain.
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Jul 01, 2025
Voting for over 24 hours, senators donned fluffy blankets in the frigid chamber, gobbled fast food and recorded behind-the-scenes tours of the Capitol as Republicans before passing their sweeping policy bill.
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Jul 01, 2025
The president and his Senate allies have cited inaccurate claims about their tax and policy bill.
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Jul 01, 2025
Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country's finances for a generation.
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Jul 01, 2025
Voting for over 24 hours, senators donned fluffy blankets in the frigid chamber, gobbled fast food and recorded behind-the-scenes tours of the Capitol as Republicans struggled to pass their sweeping policy bill.
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Jul 01, 2025
All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.
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Jul 01, 2025
All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.
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Jul 01, 2025
Republican leaders were pushing for a final vote to pass their marquee tax cut and domestic policy legislation, but had yet to resolve major issues after an all-night session of voting and negotiations.
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Jul 01, 2025
After losing to Ted Cruz last year, Mr. Allred is planning his second statewide run and looking for a stronger political climate for Democrats.
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Jul 01, 2025
A popular former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, is expected to announce a bid this summer. The Republicans are banking on an endorsement by President Trump to clear their field.
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Jul 01, 2025
And so will many voters.
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Jun 30, 2025
Senator Marsha Blackburn said in a statement that she was pulling her support for an amendment to the Senate's domestic policy package, one that she had worked on with Senator Ted Cruz.
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Jun 30, 2025
The billionaire and former Trump adviser suggested that if the domestic policy bill passed, he would swiftly form a new "America Party" and back primary challenges to Republicans.
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Jun 30, 2025
On Monday, Senate Republicans voted on several proposed amendments to the measure in an attempt to gain the support of at least a half-dozen Republicans that remained undecided. If just four Republicans voted against Trump's controversial domestic policy plan, the bill would fail to pass.
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Jun 30, 2025
Language in the chamber's spending bill says that state laws related to A.I. cannot pose an "undue or disproportionate burden" to tech companies.
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Jun 30, 2025
The Senate held an hourslong vote-a-thon on the legislation as Republicans continued to grasp for the support to pass President Trump's signature legislation.
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Jun 30, 2025
Senate Republicans can afford to lose no more than three of their own votes on the bill, but two already are opposed and others remained undecided.
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Jun 30, 2025
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
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Jun 30, 2025
Republicans delayed a rapid-fire series of votes on the measure until Monday morning as they grasped for the support to pass President Trump's signature legislation.
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Jun 30, 2025
As the Senate prepares to vote on a key piece of the president's domestic agenda, prominent critics, including Elon Musk, are speaking out.
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Jun 29, 2025
New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate.
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Jun 29, 2025
Senate Republicans are charging forward with a plan to disregard the chamber's longtime rules affecting what bills can be passed along party lines.
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Jun 29, 2025
New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate.
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Jun 29, 2025
The day after President Trump castigated the North Carolina Republican for saying he was opposed to the policy bill carrying his domestic agenda, the senator announced he would not seek a third term.
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Jun 29, 2025
Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.
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Jun 29, 2025
A new analysis showing the legislation would be far more expensive than the House version could complicate its chances of final passage in that chamber, where fiscal hawks have said the cost must not grow.
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Jun 29, 2025
New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate.
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Jun 29, 2025
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans' new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.
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Jun 28, 2025
Republican leaders barely scaled a key procedural hurdle to bring up the bill, but Democrats delayed its consideration and it was unclear whether the G.O.P. had the votes to pass it.
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Jun 28, 2025
A vote to take up the legislation dragged for more than three hours even after leaders presented a new version of the measure with concessions aimed at winning over key holdouts.
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Jun 28, 2025
His liberal politics, inspired by the safety nets of the New Deal, were shaped in working-class mining country.
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Jun 28, 2025
New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.
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Jun 28, 2025
Economists have estimated that previous versions of the bill could add trillions to the national debt, but many haven't had the chance to review the latest Senate version.
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Jun 28, 2025
A new version of the measure released in the middle of the night would set aside money to help states hit by its cuts to Medicaid, hasten the end of clean energy tax credits and sweeten the state and local tax deduction.
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Jun 28, 2025
The court tied the hands of judges at a time when Congress has been cowed and internal executive branch constraints have been steamrolled.
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Jun 27, 2025
The departure of the five-term lawmaker from Nebraska enhances Democrats' chances of picking up a seat in the narrowly divided House.
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Jun 27, 2025
The vote against the measure was mostly along party lines, with Republicans opposing it and Democrats almost unanimously in favor.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Senate voted 53 to 47 to reject a resolution to block the president's use of force against Iran without congressional approval.
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Jun 27, 2025
A look at some of the key provisions in Republicans' domestic policy bill and where the two chambers are divided.
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Jun 27, 2025
President Trump's megabill makes many Republicans uncomfortable, but that probably won't stop it from becoming law.
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Jun 27, 2025
The sweeping measure Senate Republican leaders hope to push through has many unpopular elements that they despise. But they face a political reckoning on taxes and the scorn of the president if they fail to pass it.
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Jun 27, 2025
Mr. Morris, a founder of a waste and recycling business, describes himself as the only political outsider in the field and an unwavering supporter of President Trump.
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Jun 27, 2025
The justices asked that the case, which has implications for the political power of Black voters, be reargued next term.
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Jun 27, 2025
Democrats say they are worried about reports that about 700 career diplomats will be fired. The agency has said it plans to lay off 2,000 employees soon.
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Jun 27, 2025
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
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Jun 27, 2025
With the broad tax and health care bill they are now trying to muscle into law, Senate Republicans are preparing to upend Washington's accounting standards.
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Jun 27, 2025
With the broad tax and health care bill they are now trying to muscle into law, Senate Republicans are preparing to upend Washington's accounting standards.
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Jun 26, 2025
Party lawmakers have devised a way around an earlier procedural roadblock to their safety-net cuts.
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Jun 26, 2025
The closed-door session drew more questions from Democrats over the true success of the operation.
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Jun 26, 2025
After a deranged shooter killed her husband and wounded her son on a Long Island commuter train in 1993, she went to Congress on a mission to curb gun violence.
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Jun 26, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Group of 7 agreed that penalties related to a 2021 "global minimum tax" deal will not apply to American companies.
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Jun 26, 2025
When a mass shooting in 1993 shattered Carolyn McCarthy's family, she took her gun control crusade to Washington. The former nine-term congresswoman sat down with the Times reporter Clyde Haberman in 2014 to talk about the tragedy that transformed her life.
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