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A key House committee voted to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill late Wednesday evening, clearing a major hurdle after days of internal Republican infighting and setting the stage for a floor vote in the full House early Thursday.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) issued a fiery rebuke on the House floor on Wednesday night as she slammed GOP attempts to push through President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that she warned will strip health care coverage from 13.
A Democratic lawmaker said the tense standoff over Donald Trump’s signature bill has given him flashbacks to how the president used to whip Republican lawmakers into submission. In a Wednesday night interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes,
House Republicans worked through the night and met with Trump to move a megabill advancing the president's legislative agenda through a key committee.
Deficit hawks who had blocked the measure two days earlier are still dissatisfied and want steeper spending cuts.
U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House for a meeting that might be tense
While President Donald Trump sought to eliminate Republican infighting about Medicaid reform and state and local tax deduction caps, a group of Republicans wasn't persuaded.
President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa engaged in a back-and-forth at the White House over Trump's unfounded claims of "genocide" against white South African farmers.