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A bill striking billions in foreign aid will get slightly smaller after Republicans agreed to exempt $400 million in funding for AIDS prevention, a major concession to centrists wavering on the White House request.
Republicans frame the move as a common sense effort to cut unneeded spending. Democrats counter that tens of millions of Americans rely on local public radio and television stations for news,
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on Wednesday that rural radio stations in her home state could go out of business due to a recession package moving through Congress seeking to cut funding for
Democrats looking to this fall’s off-year elections see promising signs in Virginia, where Democrat Abigail Spanberger is dominating her GOP rival, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, in fundraising as they battle to become the state’s next governor .
Mike Rogers brought in $1.5 million for the second quarter as the only major GOP contender in the Michigan Senate race, but he lags behind some of his Democratic challengers. The figure, first shared with the Washington Examiner,
House conservatives are drawing battle lines in the burgeoning showdown over President Donald Trump's spending cuts request.
President Donald Trump secured approval of his first judicial nominee of his second term, as the U.S. Senate confirmed a former law clerk to three members of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority to a seat on a federal appeals court.