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Many Republicans — who hold a razor-thin majority in the House — acknowledge that they face an uphill battle in selling the bill to a wary public.
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Several conservative House Republicans expressed grave reservations about changes the Senate made to the party's major policy bill, leaving its fate and the timing of any final vote uncertain.
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President Trump met with Republican lawmakers in hopes of bridging deep divisions over the legislation that would enact his domestic agenda.
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After a contentious round of last-minute negotiations, President Trump's budget bill has passed in the Senate, squeaking by thanks to Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. Three Republicans joined Senate Democrats in voting "no" on the bill, which gives tax cuts to the rich and makes historic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance. The bill now heads to the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a slim majority, for a final vote before Trump's July 4 deadline. Citizen groups, including the grassroots political organization ?Indivisible?, are calling on Americans, particularly those living in Republican and swing districts, to contact their House representatives and urge them to vote against the bill. "It's not a done deal," says Indivisible's co-founder and co-executive director Ezra Levin. "They do not have the votes."
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Democrats are sharpening their political arguments against their opposition as the president's major policy bill moves through Congress.
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Fiscal hawks have concerns over the legislation's ballooning price and some moderate conservatives are uneasy about steeper cuts to Medicaid.
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Leila Nathoo on how winning the welfare vote has weakened Starmer
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A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
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The BBC's political editor Chris Mason and chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman on the welfare bill.
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Rachel Reeves was visibly upset as Keir Starmer came under attack from Kemi Badenoch over welfare bill U-turn.
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The budget bill just passed by the Senate provides more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement and detention. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American Immigration Council, says the new budget would make ICE "the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation."
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MPs approved the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill but only after ministers made big changes.
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To meet the president's Friday deadline, the speaker will have to corral his party into accepting a bill several have criticized.
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Voting for over 24 hours, senators donned fluffy blankets in the frigid chamber, gobbled fast food and recorded behind-the-scenes tours of the Capitol as Republicans before passing their sweeping policy bill.
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The Senate held an hourslong vote-a-thon on the legislation as Republicans continued to grasp for the support to pass President Trump's signature legislation.
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