An intraparty battle has been brewing for some time, and now it’s coming to a head.
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Author: Jim Newell
The Time for Republicans’ Most Contentious Policy Has Arrived. They Better Brace Themselves.
Category Archives: Republicans
Republicans in Congress Use Obscure Law to Roll Back Biden-Era Regulations
As G.O.P. lawmakers have largely ceded power to President Trump, they are also pushing the bounds of a little-known statute to undo federal rules — and potentially undermining the filibuster.
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Author: Maya C. Miller
In Montana, a Rare Sight: Republicans and Democrats Voting Together
Derided by critics as the “Nasty Nine” and censured by the state party, a group of Republican state senators said they were simply advancing common-sense legislation and supporting the governor’s agenda.
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Author: Kellen Browning,Will Warasila
Florida GOP lawmakers create new hurdles for citizens’ initiative process
Florida lawmakers have given final approval to creating new hurdles for getting citizen-driven initiatives on the ballot before voters.
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Author: Kate Payne
Why Trump’s pick for top prosecutor in DC isn’t sailing through Senate approval
Ed Martin Jr., a conservative activist with modest legal experience who has defended rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is testing Republican party loyalties as a deadline approaches for the Senate to decide whether to extend or end his brief but tumultuous tenure as leader of the country’s largest U.S. Attorney’s office.
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Author: PBS News
House Republicans wrestle with how to make $1.5 trillion in cuts
After a frenzied week of small group meetings, leadership listening sessions and private committee discussions, House Republicans are still grappling with core disagreements over how they will extract $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade. Questions over how to overhaul Medicaid and which tax provisions to pay for are front and center and the divides are still so entrenched that GOP members and aides aren’t ready to begin hearings next week on key elements of the bill.
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Author: Lauren Fox
The key Republican warning about a megabill Medicaid fallout
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Trump live: President unveils unprecedented first budget proposal of second term
Despite steep cuts to non-defense discretionary spending, huge military parade still being planned for president’s birthday in June
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Author: Oliver O’Connell
Trump proposes cutting $163bn in non-defense funds and boosting military
Education, health, climate and more on chopping block and 13% rise – to over a $1tn to Pentagon – in ‘skinny budget’
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Author: Robert Tait
Trump’s budget is here; GOP defense hawks aren’t happy
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump’s budget is here; GOP defens…
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Author: Ellen Mitchell
Behind Trump’s ‘100 days’ message of smashing success, a week of setbacks
His choreographed claims of success belie the evidence that Trump is in the midst of what could be the most damaging week so far of his second term.
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Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr.,Natalie Allison
North Carolina Justice Speaks Out About Republicans’ Effort to Steal Her Seat
Jefferson Griffin has urged courts to throw out tens of thousands of North Carolina ballots in a test-run of Trump’s election-rigging strategy.
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Author: Tessa Stuart
House Committee Offers Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity to Develop on Public Lands
Sacred Native American sites, public lands and undeveloped landscapes on and off shore are once again under threat from President Trump and congressional Republicans after the House Natural Resources Committee released draft legislation Friday that would make substantial changes to how fossil fuel companies doing, or hoping to do, business on public lands are regulated. […]
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Author: By Jake Bolster
Trump’s pick for top prosecutor in DC is testing Republican loyalty
Most of President Donald Trump’s top nominees have sailed through the Senate with little resistance
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Author: ABC News
Democrats launch pressure campaign to sink Trump’s budget bill
The party is going from painting with a broad brush to taking a more narrowly tailored approach to squeezing House Republicans.
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Author: Andrew Solender
Opinion | Trump’s GOP and progressives agree: Statism’s heavy hand is good
The Trump political attacks on Harvard and other universities isn’t conservative at all.
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Author: George F. Will
Defenders Denounces Destructive Natural Resources Reconciliation Text
Defenders of Wildlife strongly denounces the House Natural Resources Committee’s text for the upcoming reconciliation bill.
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Author: https://www.facebook.com/DefendersofWildlife
Trump Suggests Republicans Start Expelling Dems From Congress
President Donald Trump called on Republicans to expel Democratic lawmakers from Congress over baseless claims of election crimes.
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Author: Nikki McCann Ramirez
Republicans haggle over green tax credits as battle lines deepen
The rising tensions come as the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee closes in on finalizing its portion of the GOP’s sprawling megabill.
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Author: Josh Siegel,James Bikales,Kelsey Tamborrino
Republicans Wrestle With Trump’s Demands for Tax Cuts
House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump’s campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.
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Author: Andrew Duehren
GOP balks at approving a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts
Republican lawmakers have told administration officials that pushing sweeping cuts through Congress will be difficult.
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Author: Liz Goodwin,Jeff Stein
‘He loves us and he’s doing it’: Trump fans’ faith undimmed by first 100 days
Despite plunging opinion polls, for those attending a campaign-style rally in Michigan the president is delivering
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Author: David Smith
Democrats target vulnerable Republicans over plan to cut social safety net
DNC to campaign against Trump’s ‘one, beautiful bill’ to reduce public spending by at least $1.5tn to pay for tax cuts
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Author: Chris Stein
Natural Resources releases reconciliation text
Public land sales are not part of the committee’s portion of the Republicans’ budget package.
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Author: Garrett Downs
