WASHINGTON — Confident that passage of President Donald Trump’s signature legislation was all but assured, West Wing aides summoned holdouts in the House Republican caucus Wednesday to deliver a blunt message: Follow the president’s orders and get it done by Friday.

It was a call to action after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ...Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as a “scam” and a “deal with the devil” in a fiery speech Wednesday on the House floor.

As the sprawling bill inches toward passage, Ocasio-Cortez accused Trump of lying about the measure that cuts Medicaid and food stamps for the poor while slashing taxes on...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition to the GOP’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill appeared to be softening Wednesday night after President Donald Trump and White House budget director Russ Vought spent hours meeting with party holdouts during procedural votes that party leaders held open.

House leaders have no desire to change the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ACLU of Missouri on Wednesday sued to block a proposed abortion ban from reaching the statewide ballot next year, marking the first major legal challenge intended to halt a Republican-led attempt to ban abortions again in Missouri.

The lawsuit, filed in Cole County, argues the proposed abortion ban, which would also ban...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his threat to arrest the Democratic mayoral nominee if he got in the way of ICE agents.

“I don’t want to talk about this other stuff,” Adams said Wednesday in response to a question on whether he ...Read more

More than 21,000 undocumented people in Colorado could lose Medicaid coverage if the Republicans’ bill to extend 2017 tax cuts makes it through the final gauntlet in Congress.

H.R. 1, the legislation formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has a provision that would penalize states such as Colorado that use their own funds to cover ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan Democrats criticized the Senate's changes to President Donald Trump's massive tax and border bill as it returned Wednesday to the House, where the state's Republican lawmakers were working to bring it home ahead of the Independence Day holiday on Friday.

"The bill is President Trump's agenda, and we are making it law," ...Read more

One of Haiti’s staunchest advocates in Congress wants to force the Trump administration to come up with a clear U.S. strategy for helping the gang-ridden Caribbean nation return to stability — and to consult with various groups and experts before devising it.

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat and the ranking member on the House ...Read more

One of Haiti’s staunchest advocates in Congress wants to force the Trump administration to come up with a clear U.S. strategy for helping the gang-ridden Caribbean nation return to stability — and to consult with various groups and experts before devising it.

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat and the ranking member on the House ...Read more

As Republican leaders in the House worked Wednesday to drum up the votes to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, which comes with substantial cuts to programs like Medicaid, two Virginians could be poised to play a pivotal role.

Virginia Reps. Rob Wittman and Jen Kiggans, both Republicans, voted for the House bill in ...Read more

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern in the office of Rep. Ron Estes, was shot and killed in Northwest D.C. on Monday night, Metropolitan Police and the Kansas Republican confirmed.

Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was a Granby, Mass., resident who joined Estes’ office earlier in June. Metropolitan Police said in a statement Wednesday that detectives ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Andy Harris was a key player during tax and spending bill negotiations on Wednesday, withholding support for the legislation while hoping each passing moment would improve the prospects of adding new deficit reduction measures.

It was a familiar position, albeit a delicate one, for the Maryland Republican, a deficit hawk who...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Colleges and universities are bracing for change after the massive policy bill passed the U.S. Senate this week, including serious cuts and restrictions to federal student loan programs, expansions to Pell Grants to fund short-term or workforce training and a new accountability system for colleges based on their graduates’ ...Read more

A Nevada lawmaker and a downtown Las Vegas casino owner are among those united in opposition to a provision in the proposed federal budget bill that would limit declarable losses for gamblers.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, and Derek Stevens, co-owner of Circa, The D and Golden Gate hotel-casinos, apparently share similar concerns about an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans were scrambling Wednesday to salvage their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill amid a revolt from conservatives over the measure’s growing price tag.

President Donald Trump and Republican leadership were busy buttonholing members from across the conference’s political spectrum, with centrists also still wary ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The fate of the Big Beautiful Bill rests with a handful of Republicans such as David Valadao whose political future could well be determined by how it affects his Central Valley constituents’ healthcare, food assistance and tax bills.

The Hanford Republican visited the White House Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed hard...Read more

Critics blasted Paramount Global's decision to pay $16 million to settle President Donald Trump's lawsuit over "60 Minutes" edits, calling the move a "spineless capitulation" that erodes U.S. press freedoms.

Paramount late Tuesday agreed to a landmark settlement with Trump to end his $20-billion broadside against CBS News. The president will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and House Republican leaders hope the president can be the party’s closer Wednesday as he tries to personally convince enough conservative and moderate holdouts to push his domestic policy agenda across the finish line.

Trump was slated to meet separately at the White House with members of the hard-line House ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As Republicans now face an open race for their party’s nomination for U.S. Senate next year, the one name that has shot to the top of the list is Lara Trump.

The president’s daughter-in-law co-chaired the Republican National Committee during Donald Trump’s successful bid for the White House last year and currently hosts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and House Republican leaders hope the president can be the party’s closer Wednesday as he tries to personally convince enough conservative and moderate holdouts to push his domestic policy agenda across the finish line.

Trump was slated to meet separately at the White House with members of the hard-line House ...Read more