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U.S. House passes Trump’s tax and spending cuts bill by narrow margin
U.S. House Speaker Johnson gavels the passing of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump’s big multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage on Thursday, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline. The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed. GOP leaders worked overnight and the president himself leaned on aRead more
Republicans take back control of U.S. Senate, Democrats cling to House hopes
Republicans have seized control of the U.S. Senate after flipping multiple Democrat-held seats while seeing their own incumbents successfully fend off challenges. The unexpected battleground of Nebraska pushed Republicans over the top late Tuesday, when incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer brushed back a surprisingly strong challenge from independent newcomer Dan Osborn. Democrats watched their efforts to salvage their slim majority slip out of reach as tallies rolled in across a map that favoured Republicans, who had to defend just 11 seats in comparison with 21 for the Democrats. Early in theRead more
Why Republicans tried to make a last-minute change in Nebraska ahead of presidential election
A last-minute Republican effort just six weeks before the Nov. 5 election to award all of Nebraska’s electoral college votes on a winner-take-all basis appeared doomed after Monday, when a key Republican lawmaker said he opposed the proposal despite lobbying from Donald Trump’s allies. State Senator Mike McDonnell said in a statement that he would not support altering Nebraska’s current system, which splits its electoral votes by congressional district. “Nebraska voters, not politicians of either party, should have the final say on how we pick a president,” McDonnell said. Here’sRead more
Trump and Vance take aim at Biden’s climate legislation. Some Republicans would rather they didn’t
In nearly every speech, J.D. Vance, the Republican hopeful for U.S. vice-president, drums home that Americans are being duped by the Democrats’ fixation on the low-carbon economy and their wild spending on what Vance calls “green scams.” “We need a leader … who rejects Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s green new scam and fights to bring back our great American factories,” he belted out at his nomination speech at the Republican National Convention in July, drawing exuberant cheers. Vance calls Democrats’ environmental focus “crazy.” “Kamala Harris cares more about climateRead more