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The Treasury Department will likely need to take steps to avoid a default on the national debt as soon as early next year, according to an initial forecast ahead of a potential partisan standoff on raising the debt ceiling.
Senate Republicans are pressing ahead Wednesday with a $69.5 billion bill to fund the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda, while scrapping money for the Secret Service and Justice Department that held it up.
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Kathleen Hicks, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Biden administration, says the path out of the Iran conflict requires experienced negotiators and professional diplomatic teams. Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) stresses the need for Congress to move on reconciliation after the Justice Department made what he calls the "right choice" on the $1.8 billion so-called "weaponization" fund. Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH) criticizes President Trump's handling of the conflict with Iran, arguing Congress must use its war-powers and spending authority to demand clearer answers from the Pentagon.
Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee Thursday pressed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on several hot-button issues, including high fuel prices and cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
There was no sign of progress in ceasefire talks between the US and Iran after the worst burst of violence in weeks and as the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected on Thursday a US-brokered truce in Lebanon.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee added four candidates to its “Red to Blue” program for the 2026 cycle Thursday.
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House Republicans aim to pass a procedural rule for their party-line immigration enforcement spending bill tonight, with final passage expected Friday morning, Majority Leader
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The NAACP has reignited a landmark lawsuit over pandemic-era mail-in ballot handling in an effort to prevent the Trump administration from altering rules that could impact how millions of voters cast their ballots.
The House Administration Committee’s top Republican is working to add restrictions on lawmakers using prediction markets to the panel’s signature stock ban bill and pass it this summer.
A federal judge granted President
The US Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s biggest-spending lobbying group, said Thursday a $100 million contribution, its biggest to date, would expand a multiyear state and federal free-enterprise policy and litigation effort.
Moderna, Robinhood, and other corporate giants are bracing for significant financial setbacks and business disruptions, as President
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The Department of Homeland Security would receive $69.5 billion in multiyear funding under S. 2, Republicans’ budget reconciliation package.
Ohio laws that bar voters from posting photos of their completed ballots online don’t violate the First Amendment, a federal judge said.
Undocumented immigrants who live Nebraska are no longer eligible for in-state tuition at public colleges, thanks to a court-approved consent decree signed by both state and federal officials.
Soaring US power bills are threatening to claim their biggest victim yet — the nation’s largest electric grid operator.
New York lawmakers approved a measure Wednesday to bolster their power over redrawing congressional and legislative maps as Democrats look to tilt districts further in their favor in 2028.
An error-riddled brief plagued lawyers for a Black man suspended from his Texas high school over his hair length during oral arguments Wednesday, with two Fifth Circuit judges hinting at possible sanctions.
US states are bracing for the fallout from President
