At a retreat in Florida, Energy and Commerce leaders said they were eyeing $200 billion as a rough top-line cut.

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Opinion writers discuss issues from vaccines to Medicaid.

Mr. Kennedy appears to have most Republicans behind him as he seeks the job of health secretary, though he couldn’t escape his past stances on vaccines and abortion.

To achieve the big agenda he’s laid out for his second term, President Donald Trump is leaning heavily on the unilateral powers he wields as the head of the executive branch of government. But for anything requiring or having to do with money, he’ll need the approval of both houses of Congress, which controls government spending. While Trump’s Republican Party has majorities in both, it lacks the 60-vote supermajority needed to pass most legislation in the Senate. As a result, his congressional

Senators grilled Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s pick for health secretary, on vaccine comments and his stance on abortion.

The veto pledge capped a dramatic few days in which Republican legislators publicly criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis and portrayed themselves as truer allies of President Trump.

A number of senators grilled the controversial nominee over his views on vaccines and abortion.

Republicans flocked Donald Trump ‘s Miami-area golf course to chart a path forward on the president’s many goals, but some are calling the visit a vacation after ‘no plan’ was made.