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CBO analysis shows U.S. House GOP budget measure tilted toward upper-income taxpayers

By: Ashley Murray WASHINGTON — As House Republicans continue to wrangle over the “one big beautiful bill,” a new analysis released late Tuesday projects the massive reconciliation package would decrease resources for low-income families over the next decade while increasing resources for top earners. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the lowest-earning households in […]
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May 21, 2025
U.S. House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, R-Md., center, speaks to reporters on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at the U.S. Capitol. From left are Republicans Keith Self of Texas, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Chip Roy of Texas. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)

U.S. House speaker predicts vote soon on giant budget bill stalled by hard-right objections

By: Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to hold a vote on Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” overnight Wednesday or at the latest on Thursday morning, following a meeting at the White House with GOP lawmakers opposed to the reconciliation package. Johnson, speaking to reporters at the Capitol after the huddle with […]
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May 21, 2025

U.S. House Republicans aim to ban state-level AI laws for 10 years

By: Paige Gross A footnote in a budget bill U.S. House Republicans are trying to pass before Memorial Day is the first major signal for how Congress may address artificial intelligence legislation, as they seek to create a moratorium on any AI laws at the state level for 10 years. The measure, advanced Wednesday as […]
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May 18, 2025
The U.S. House Budget Committee votes on Friday, May 16, 2025 on a massive reconciliation package. The vote failed, 16-21. (Screenshot from House webcast)

U.S. House right wing tanks Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in Budget Committee

By: Ashley Murray and Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — Republicans suffered a major setback to their “big, beautiful bill” on Friday, when amid conservative objections the U.S. House Budget Committee failed to approve the measure, a crucial step in the process. In a 16-21 vote, Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Ralph Norman […]
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May 17, 2025
South Dakota state Rep. Karla Lems, R-Canton, speaks to hundreds of rally attendees at the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre on Jan. 13, 2025, during an event highlighting opposition to a carbon dioxide pipeline. (Photo by Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

Is Congress trampling on state laws protecting property rights against pipelines?

By: Jacob Fischler Lawmakers and advocates on the right and left are raising questions about a provision in legislation a powerful U.S. House committee approved Wednesday, with critics arguing it would allow federal regulators to approve natural gas and carbon dioxide pipelines over prohibitions in state law. Two sections in the House Energy and Commerce […]
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May 16, 2025
U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak speaks in the North Dakota Senate chamber on Feb. 18, 2025, as Lt. Gov Michelle Strinden presides over the session. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Fedorchak emphasizes need for new Medicaid requirements

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) North Dakota U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak described Medicaid as an “at-risk program” unless reforms are adopted to curb rising costs. But North Dakota advocates for Medicaid recipients said Thursday they worry about people slipping through the cracks and new administrative burdens being added to the state. Fedorchak, a Republican member […]
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May 15, 2025

Supreme Court Grills Team Trump On Birthright Citizenship Order, Leaves Door Open To Reining In Lower Courts

By: Katelynn Richardson (Daily Caller) Some Supreme Court justices appeared concerned Thursday with the implications of letting the Trump administration enforce its birthright citizenship ban, though several remained skeptical about lower courts’ use of universal injunctions. Following three lower court decisions blocking the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the administration in April asked the […]
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May 15, 2025

White House Reportedly Weighs Major Nuclear Regulatory Shift

By: Audrey Streb (Daily Caller) Executive orders reportedly being drafted by the White House could fundamentally change nuclear power policy by shifting more authority to federal departments to approve reactor designs and projects with the goal of quadrupling capacity by 2040. Four separate draft orders reportedly outlined the possibility of expanding nuclear power by restructuring the […]
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May 14, 2025

No tax on tips, child tax credit and business tax cuts survive in big House GOP bill

By: Ashley Murray WASHINGTON — House Republicans advanced the tax portion of the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation package early Wednesday, a step forward in permanently extending, and in some cases expanding, the 2017 tax law and temporarily handing President Donald Trump a win on campaign promises like no tax on tips. The House Committee on […]
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May 14, 2025
David Hogg (Photo via democrats.org)

DNC Moves To Void David Hogg’s Election To Party Vice Chair On Technicality

By: Ireland Owens The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted Monday to void the results of gun control activist David Hogg’s election as one of its vice chairs. Following the credentials committee’s decision that the vice chair election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures, it will bring the vote to the DNC’s full body of members to decide […]
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May 13, 2025
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