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Last week, President Donald Trump made dubious history when he signed legislation that gave a rubber stamp to companies — including some owned by his family — to issue their own digital currencies known as stablecoins. Never before has a president signed a bill that legalized his own hustle. Not …

Republicans voted on Thursday night to clawback $1.1 billion in congressional funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps finance National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The vote marks the latest chapter in President Donald Trump’s attacks against media companies and publications who aren’t covering …

In a late night vote at the Capitol on Monday, House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to unseal documents related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans have long stoked conspiracies about the disgraced financier’s death, voted against the resolution in the heat of a MAGA civil …

President Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is far from beautiful and deeply unpopular with the public. Battling concerns from voters about increased barriers to accessing programs like Medicaid and food assistance; massive transfers of wealth from less fortunate Americans to corporations and the rich; and the …

If Republicans manage to pass Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” millions of Americans will lose access to health care, food assistance, and other critical public support programs. One would hope that Democrats — despite being the minority in both chambers — would put up the strongest fight they can …

President Donald Trump has insisted that Republicans get his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” to his desk by the Fourth of July. With only days left before the self-imposed deadline, the White House is now scrambling to do damage control around the deeply unpopular legislation produced by Congress. A series of …

As Senate Republicans move to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” they have made the legislation even worse. It’s been clear from the start that the bill would primarily benefit the wealthy, and partially finance another round of tax cuts for the rich by screwing the poor. The degree …

With the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team on dubious legal footing, congressional Republicans are quietly inching forward legislation to grant President Donald Trump new, lawful powers for razing the federal government: the unprecedented ability to propose to Congress, under reorganization authority, the abolition of executive departments, independent regulatory …

Republican Rep. Mike Flood appeared before his constituents today in Nebraska for a town hall that turned ugly as he tried to defend President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” the reconciliation package the House of Representatives passed last week, and which is expected to force millions of Americans off their …

This morning,theHouse of Representativespassed Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which takes a sledgehammer to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),a law that created hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs and over billions in green energy investments across the nation. The reconciliation bill enshrines Trump’s 2017 tax cuts into law …