The tax portion of House Republicans' "one big beautiful bill" is estimated to cost just under $4 trillion, roughly half a trillion under the Ways and Means Committee's instruction for the package.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he expects to have a deal on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap on Wednesday, after both sides of the tenuous negotiations reported progress following a Tuesday afternoon meeting. Johnson said the group was waiting on the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the scorekeeper for Congress, to do...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg held a town hall in the influential early-contest state of Iowa on Tuesday, potentially fueling added speculation about another presidential run for the prominent Democrat. Buttigieg held the town hall with VoteVets, a progressive political action committee advocating on issues like national security and veterans’ care, in Cedar Rapids, marking...
U.S. Army veteran and businessman Kendall Qualls has officially launched his Minnesota gubernatorial campaign to challenge former Kamala Harris running mate Gov. Tim Walz.
Overriding the Supreme Court's pending review of a birthright citizenship case involving the Trump administration is a much broader question of federal judges' power.
Homeland Security slams Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell after his reaction to hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Tennessee Highway Patrol operation.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.
Several protesters were arrested for disrupting a House committee's budget reconciliation markup on Tuesday, as Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., thanked those holding court in the hallway.