{beacon} HOUSE REPUBLICANS WILL REGROUP over the weekend, as they search of a way forward on President Trump’s agenda bill after suffering a stunning setback Friday. Conservative fiscal hawks, insisting the bill doesn’t do enough to address the federal deficit or Medicaid work requirements, prevented the bill from advancing out of the House Budget...
President Trump’s legislative agenda is hanging by a thread as House Republican leaders scramble to make last-minute changes to their “big, beautiful bill” and cut deals to appease warring factions of the party. The latest setback came Friday, when four spending hawks tanked a key vote in the House Budget Committee to advance the legislation...
The federal judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, blasted the Trump administration Friday for not giving her enough material to decide whether it can invoke the state secrets privilege. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said a declaration submitted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which seeks...
U2's lead singer Bono claimed during a recent interview that the possibility of another world war breaking out is more likely now than at any point in his lifetime. “Nationalism is not what we need. We grew up in a very charged atmosphere in Ireland. It makes you suspicious of nationalism and those animal spirits...
Many different think tanks and legislative analysts in Washington have been sounding the alarm that the GOP bill to cut taxes and spending has greater advantages for wealthier taxpayers than it does for working Americans. But one group is projecting lower earners will not only receive smaller benefits from the bill but will actually be...
Labor unions say layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are threatening science even as some employees get their jobs back. In a statement released Friday, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said the layoffs at the Department of Health and...
Heated exchanges were heard in court as Judge Xinis confronted DOJ attorneys over Kilmar Abrego Garcia's unlawful deportation, while protesters rallied outside for his return.