Visitors to the U.S. Capitol rest in the shade on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 25, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Senators on Monday began offering amendments to President Donald Trump’s megabill, following a weekend of tense negotiations to try to get the president’s second term domestic priorities through the upper chamber. The…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner (not pictured) and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. Ken Cedeno | Reuters President Donald Trump said that Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks at a press conference following the U.S. Senate Republicans’ weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The Senate on Saturday cleared a key procedural hurdle to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” bringing the massive spending…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks at a press conference following the U.S. Senate Republicans’ weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters After weeks of sparring over the specifics of the “one big, beautiful bill,” the package is poised to soon head to…
US President Donald Trump gestures towards the new flagpole on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Ron Sachs | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump is set Thursday afternoon to host a group of working-class Americans at the White…
Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson announces plans to bring numerous federal charges, including murder, against Vance Boelter, the suspect in the shooting deaths of Democratic assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., June 16, 2025. Tim Evans | Reuters Federal prosecutors on Monday charged the man accused of assassinating a…
Law enforcement officers with the River Valley Tactical Team, prepare to visit the home of Vance Luther Boelter, who officials describe as a person of interest in the killing of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting of Sen. John Hoffman, near Green Isle, Minn., Saturday, June 14, 2025. Anthony Souffle | Star…
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is seen in the U.S. Capitol during a series of votes on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Sen. Ron Johnson said Sunday that he thinks he has enough GOP colleagues on board with his opposition to the House’s “big, beautiful bill” to stall…
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders faced a last-minute revolt Wednesday by members of the party’s hardline conservative faction, who opposed their latest attempt to win support from moderate members of the conference for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill. As a pivotal meeting of the House Rules Committee entered its sixteenth hour after starting…
