The House GOP's “big, beautiful bill” will add so much money to the debt it will force across-the-board spending cuts to Medicare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO late Tuesday said the legislation will increase the debt by $2.3 trillion over 10 years. That will trigger as much as $500 billion in...
President Trump’s tax-and-spending cut bill centers on an extension of his previous round of tax cuts, which Republicans slated for expiration at the end of this year back in 2017. As such, it will preserve the status quo on many big parts of the code so that taxpayers won’t see any change in things like...
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) bill that takes aim at President Trump’s deal with Qatar to accept a luxury jet as a gift to serve as the next Air Force One. Schumer attempted to pass the measure, which would essentially bar the use of a foreign-owned aircraft as the presidential...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday that street signs in Manhattan have been “temporarily co-named” to honor individual players on the New York Knicks as the team advances to the 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000. The city installed blue-and-orange street signs on 15 street corners across Manhattan,...
Canada is in talks with the U.S. to join President Trump’s proposed "Golden Dome" missile defense system, according to the Canadian government. Prime Minister Mark Carney's office said there are “active discussions” between the two countries on existing and new security programs such as Golden Dome, the BBC reported. The Canadian government didn't immediately respond...
Plus: Trump confronts South African leader in Oval Office {beacon} HOUSE REPUBLICANS are fighting the clock — and each other — as GOP leadership and the White House push for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to get a vote as soon as tonight. Conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus headed to the White...
The United States Army will celebrate 250 years of service on June 14 with a large-scale military parade through the nation’s capital. But the festivities, which have been in the planning stages for a couple of years, will include far more and didn't initially include the parade. The day also marks President Trump's 79th birthday. Trump had...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and the White House are betting that the bill full of President Trump’s priorities is so big — and so “beautiful,” at least in the eyes of the president — that it cannot fail. House GOP leaders are charging ahead with plans to vote on the legislation, officially titled the One...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) filed a Wednesday resolution to expel Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) over pending federal charges related to a scuffle involving lawmakers, protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers outside a migrant detention facility in New Jersey. McIver was accused of assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement after touring Delaney Hall...