President Donald Trump said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) should cancel the Senate’s summer break and long weekends in order to confirm Trump’s nominees, which include some controversial picks, more quickly in a Truth Social post Saturday. “Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over …
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Senate Republicans have passed President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sprawling legislative package that is expected to kick millions off their health insurance, codify big tax cuts for the wealthy, give a massive funding boost to the administration’s mass deportation efforts, and screw over the nation’s poor with …
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President Donald Trump’s tariff regime goes into effect at midnight on Tuesday, and some Republican lawmakers can barely contain how much they hate it. As markets crater, and tensions escalate between the United States and its most important trade partners, elected Republicans must be realizing that they will be among …
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Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued, MAGA chaos agents to serve in his Cabinet — and is planning to force them through the U.S. Senate, a chamber in which the incoming president will enjoy a new conservative majority. However, when it comes …
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Donald Trump has followed up his election win earlier this month by tapping a series of devout loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and zealots to occupy the highest ranks of the federal government. Some of them —like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are so thinly qualified for …
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