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House Republican leaders are preparing for a late night in the chamber as they try to jam through President Donald Trump’s $9 billion package of cuts to federal funding — after a day of intense talks with GOP holdouts demanding a vote on a Jeffrey Epstein-related measure.
The White House sent the nominations of Scott Mayer, chief labor counsel at Boeing Co, and James Murphy, a career lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board, to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.
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Raw Story on MSNTrump's budget blitz may force GOP to own a government shutdownPresident Donald Trump's administration could face serious consequences for playing hardball over budget cuts, according to one analyst. Over the last few days, the GOP worked to ram through Trump's $9 billion rescission package that cuts money from foreign aid and public media outlets like NPR and PBS.
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie–whose opposition to the GOP’s budget bill last month led Trump to demand his exile from the party–teamed up with Rep. Ro Khanna to introduce the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which would require Attorney General Pam Bondi to make the documents public within 30 days.
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CNN's Harry Enten reports that President Donald Trump's approval ratings have risen since the latest Epstein list controversy began. "Donald Trump is not the one who has problems with his political base.
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New York Magazine on MSNNewsom’s Threat to Match Trump’s Texas Power Grab Is Risky BusinessCalifornia’s governor keeps talking about creating new House seats in response to a Texas gerrymander. But the gambit could backfire on Democrats.
President Trump on Thursday announced a new nominee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to fill the seat of a previous Democratic commissioner who stepped down at the White
Live updates and the latest news as the Senate sends PBS, NPR, foreign aid clawbacks to the House and senators consider Emil Bove's nomination to a federal appeals court.