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House Republicans are committed to an extraordinary influx of funding to ramp up the president’s deportation agenda and border enforcement.
Republicans are leaning on immigrants, undocumented or not, to help make the math work for their sprawling tax package. Even as they push to cut taxes on millions of Americans, lawmakers want to simultaneously bar immigrants from claiming a panoply of tax benefits,
Before Speaker Mike Johnson could get his first real stretch of sleep in three days, the House GOP’s painstakingly drafted “big, beautiful bill” was running into resistance in the Senate.
The president seems less interested in persuading GOP members like Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson and more interested in threatening them.
Students and families could see significant changes to how student loans are repaid as well as cuts to federal student aid as congressional Republicans look to slash billions of dollars in federal spending to offset the cost of President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda.
The narrow win for the bill, which hikes the deduction for state and local taxes to $40,000, came after Speaker Mike Johnson won over right-wing fiscal hawks and a small group of rebels from the
House Republicans are pushing to slash at least $1 trillion from two of the nation’s bedrock safety net programs, Medicaid and food stamps, as part of their sweeping package aimed at enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda.
President Donald Trump often seems like the sun around which other Republicans orbit, setting their direction and movements — and, every so often, slingshotting one out of his solar system when they displease him.