House Republican leaders on Tuesday teed up changes to the “big, beautiful bill” of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities that are slated to come up for a vote of the full chamber this week. The tweaks come after the Senate parliamentarian reviewed the sprawling package and identified provisions that do not comply with...
Former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha, who served under former President Biden, criticized the decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to fire all 17 experts on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine panel. Kennedy announced the decision in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told reporters Tuesday that his panel will unveil changes to the House-passed bill to enact President Trump’s agenda that will be more “conservative” and propose dramatically less money for border security. Paul has argued for weeks that Congress doesn’t need to spend $150...
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump, Noem detail changes to federal disaster agency President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem detailed changes they hope to make to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), indicating they intend to eliminate the agency “as it exists today” and dole out less...
New Jersey Democratic primary victory sets up showdown with Jack Ciattarelli, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, in one of only two gubernatorial elections in 2025.
After a workplace ICE raid that resulted in the arrests of about 70 illegal alien at an Omaha meatpacking plant, several protesters threw rocks and jumped on law enforcement vehicles.