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May 16, 2025
Studies show that when Medicaid work requirements were tried, they failed to increase employment.
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May 16, 2025
Whether the ultraconservatives dig in and force big changes to the megabill carrying President Trump's agenda or capitulate, as they have in the past, will determine the fate of their party's signature legislation.
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May 16, 2025
The lawmakers introduced resolutions as anger erupted over a series of deals involving the president, businesses linked to his family and several countries.
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May 16, 2025
Conservatives are demanding deeper cuts in federal spending, including the elimination of clean energy tax credits and work requirements for Medicaid recipients to start earlier.
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May 16, 2025
Even though most Americans may see lower taxes, Republicans' spending cuts could outweigh those benefits and leave some worse off.
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May 16, 2025
Responses to a guest essay about the effects of Medicaid cuts. Also: A third presidential term; a display of faith; loud music in public.
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May 16, 2025
Selling off public lands threatens more than a century of progress for one of America's most vital and popular shared experiments.
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May 15, 2025
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
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May 15, 2025
The measure would have compelled the administration to inform Congress about how it is complying with court orders involving deportees to El Salvador and to provide a human rights report on the nation.
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May 15, 2025
The surprise firing of the head of the Library of Congress and efforts to install Trump loyalists at the iconic institution have stirred bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill.
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May 15, 2025
The opposition of right-wing lawmakers who are pressing for deeper spending cuts could derail the legislation before it gets to the House floor.
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May 15, 2025
Concerns about the deficit-stretching potential of President Trump's tax plan is spooking some investors, even as Republicans argue over its particulars.
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May 15, 2025
Plus, the campy singing contest the whole world watches.
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May 15, 2025
See the steps of budget reconciliation, the process that Republican leaders are using to fast-track their legislation through Congress.
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May 15, 2025
The High Line is planning a pigeon festival. "People love them or hate them," the park's executive director said.
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May 14, 2025
Three committees advanced legislation that would combine into the "big beautiful bill" to enact President Trump's agenda. But the package faces a rocky path.
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May 14, 2025
Members of two key House committees worked all night on a sprawling domestic policy bill. Some fell asleep along the way.
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May 14, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifying before Congress for the first time as health secretary, also said he did not think Americans should be taking "medical advice from me."
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May 14, 2025
Almost all of the cuts that Republicans hope to pass in the coming weeks will last only until President Trump is set to leave office.
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May 14, 2025
Three key committees advanced legislation that would combine into the "one big beautiful bill" to enact President Trump's agenda. But the package faces a rocky path in Congress.
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May 14, 2025
Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.
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May 14, 2025
As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become a trap of dependency.
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May 13, 2025
A Republican known as Kit, he was the state's youngest governor. When he retired from Congress after four terms, he said he didn't want to be the state's oldest senator.
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May 13, 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill seem unlikely to challenge President Trump as he pushes ethics guardrails around profiting from the presidency to the breaking point.
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May 13, 2025
A provision in the House Republican budget bill would provide public money for private education and home-schooling, something many Democratic-led states have resisted.
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May 13, 2025
The party's signature tax plan would kill most Biden-era incentives, but there's a sticking point: G.O.P. districts have the most to lose.
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May 12, 2025
House Republicans on Monday outlined their plans for a far-reaching tax bill that would deliver on several of President Trump's campaign pledges — for now.
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May 12, 2025
With a crucial week looming in the House, the G.O.P. is groping for ways to achieve savings without provoking a political backlash. It's a little tricky.
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May 12, 2025
The Republican senator from Missouri called potentially deep cuts in the program "morally wrong" and "politically suicidal" for his party as it courts working-class voters.
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May 12, 2025
The proposal, which is to be considered this week by a key House panel, omits some of the furthest-reaching reductions to the health program but would leave millions without coverage or facing higher costs.
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May 12, 2025
Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker's influence looms large.
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May 12, 2025
The proposal, which is to be considered this week by a key House panel, omits some of the furthest-reaching reductions to the health program but would leave millions without coverage or facing higher costs.
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May 11, 2025
The legislators were with Mayor Ras Baraka when he was arrested Friday outside an immigration detention facility. A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said they could face assault charges.
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May 10, 2025
Now, Trump's big budget bill might require particularly painful cuts in the South.
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May 10, 2025
The party is trying to leverage local entrepreneurs' concerns to argue that President Trump's tariffs are yet another gift to the rich and powerful at the expense of everyday Americans.
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May 09, 2025
House Republicans rolled out the first pieces of a roughly $4 trillion tax cut they hope to pass, including measures that would last just for President Trump's term.
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May 09, 2025
In a lengthy Friday night social media screed, the Republican congresswoman savaged her party's leaders as she declared she would not pursue a Senate run.
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May 09, 2025
The president's stated opposition to cutting the program has put Republicans laboring to enact his domestic agenda in a bind.
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May 09, 2025
A small group of Republicans are threatening to torpedo President Trump's agenda over the state and local tax deduction, long a headache for both parties.
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May 09, 2025
The House minority leader would much rather talk about Medicaid and taxes than looming autocracy.
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May 08, 2025
After telling House lawmakers that the F.B.I. needed more resources, Kash Patel told senators that he agreed with a proposal to slash more than $500 million from the agency.
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May 08, 2025
Es casi seguro que la iniciativa fracasará en el Senado, pero una Cámara de Representantes dirigida por los republicanos apoyó la nomenclatura propuesta por el presidente Trump.
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May 08, 2025
Democratic supporters of the measure to regulate parts of the industry refused to allow it to move forward amid concerns in their party that President Trump and his family are profiting from cryptocurrency.
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May 08, 2025
The means of Ed Martin's ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington was his path out of power.
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May 08, 2025
Representative Buddy Carter became the first Republican to enter the primary field to take on Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, one of the nation's most vulnerable Democrats.
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May 08, 2025
G.O.P. lawmakers from swing districts face tough votes as soon as next week, when key House panels are scheduled to consider legislation that would cut popular programs to pay for President Trump's agenda.
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May 08, 2025
The legislation was all but certain to die in the Senate, but the move put the Republican-led House on the record supporting President Trump's nomenclature.
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May 08, 2025
Senator Chris Murphy argues voters want to know who's screwing them.
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May 07, 2025
The Republican speaker's decision underscored the resistance in his party to politically painful reductions to the program, and drew a backlash from the hard right, which is demanding deep cuts.
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May 07, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson has said he would hold a vote "quickly" to restore more than $1 billion in funding, but ultraconservatives are insisting on attaching limits on abortion and voting rights.
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May 07, 2025
Republican leaders face a problem: They have staked it all on passing the tax bill, but that bill makes it more difficult to criticize President Trump's tariffs.
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May 06, 2025
A House committee proposed a huge increase in federal funding to repair and restore the center, which President Trump took over in February. Democrats have questions.
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May 06, 2025
A fencer's refusal to compete against a transgender opponent in a women's bout at a Maryland meet has put the issue in front of Congress.
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May 06, 2025
Mr. Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, will lead an agency upended by big staff cuts and other significant changes.
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May 06, 2025
In the latest chapter in a battle over spending powers, lawmakers charged that the administration removed crucial information in violation of the law. The White House argues the data shouldn't be public.
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May 06, 2025
The nomination of the prosecutor, Ed Martin, has been teetering amid revelations that he once compared former President Biden to Adolf Hitler.
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May 06, 2025
Some said they worried that California's planned ban on gas-powered vehicles would raise the price of cars. Another cited "intense and misleading lobbying" by the oil industry.
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May 06, 2025
To win back the U.S. Senate in 2026, Democrats will need to compete in some of the most conservative terrain in the country. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, surveys the Democrats' strategies.
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May 06, 2025
Facing long odds to retake a majority, Senator Chuck Schumer and his allies are trying to think outside the box and recruit candidates who might be able to pull off upsets in red states.
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May 05, 2025
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats' emphasis on seniority led her not to seek a leadership role on the powerful Oversight Committee.
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May 05, 2025
Some Democrats who had supported legislation for so-called stablecoins are now demanding tougher language to prevent fraud and money laundering.
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May 05, 2025
The popular two-term governor of Georgia had been seen as the strongest potential Republican challenger to Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat.
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May 03, 2025
A progressive member of Congress for two decades, he resigned as mayor after 18 women accused him of sexual harassment.
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May 03, 2025
As G.O.P. lawmakers have largely ceded power to President Trump, they are also pushing the bounds of a little-known statute to undo federal rules — and potentially undermining the filibuster.
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May 02, 2025
The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman last year wrote to a doctor who had treated him, pointing to "warning signs" that suggested the senator could be backsliding on his recovery from a mental health crisis.
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May 02, 2025
Senators expressed concern with a military budget they said was far too scant, and one objected to the plan's gutting of vital programs, including one that offers home heating assistance for the poor.
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May 02, 2025
House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump's campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.
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May 02, 2025
The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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Apr 30, 2025
Only three Republicans joined Democrats in voting to end the national emergency President Trump declared to impose tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, leaving the measure short of the support needed to pass.
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Apr 30, 2025
The New York Republican is contemplating a run for governor and nursing a feud with the House speaker after seeing her cabinet dream evaporate.
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Apr 30, 2025
Republicans have raced to approve the president's picks to serve as top diplomats around the globe, in some cases with solid backing from Democrats.
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Apr 29, 2025
The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.
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Apr 29, 2025
At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump's "starting gun" to begin mining. Democrats and Republicans clashed over environmental and business concerns.
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Apr 29, 2025
G.O.P. leaders used a procedural maneuver to close off an avenue for House members to demand answers from the Trump administration, including on the defense secretary's use of Signal.
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Apr 29, 2025
The New York Historical plans six exhibitions, all featuring the city as a major player.
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Apr 29, 2025
NYU Langone Health aired a commercial showcasing its doctors during the Super Bowl. A North Carolina congressman wondered if it was a waste of money.
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Apr 28, 2025
The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.
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Apr 28, 2025
As part of legislation to pay for President Trump's domestic agenda, including his immigration crackdown, House Republicans want to impose or increase fees for legal entry into the United States.
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Apr 28, 2025
Mr. Connolly, of Virginia, said he would not run for re-election. He will also give up his leadership spot on the oversight panel as he faces cancer.
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Apr 28, 2025
Greg Casar, a Texas Democrat and new chairman of the House Progressive Caucus, says his party must adopt economic populism to recapture voters and effectively counter President Trump.
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Apr 28, 2025
Representative Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia said he would not run for re-election. He will also give up his leadership spot on the oversight panel as he faces cancer.
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Apr 28, 2025
The conservative senator from Missouri, better known for his raised fist in solidarity with Trump supporters on Jan. 6, is embracing a key rhetorical theme in the president's political ascendancy.
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Apr 28, 2025
Republican lawmakers are set to lay out specifics of their sweeping fiscal package as Congress returns for a critical month, giving Democrats an opening for fresh attacks.
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Apr 25, 2025
Federal prosecutors had said Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, should receive a lengthy sentence to "protect the public" from future fraud.
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Apr 25, 2025
Federal prosecutors wanted Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to receive a lengthy sentence to "protect the public" from future fraud.
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Apr 25, 2025
Federal prosecutors want Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to be sentenced to 87 months in prison.
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Apr 23, 2025
Senator Richard J. Durbin's departure will set off a primary for a rare open Senate seat in Illinois and open a top leadership slot. He said it was time to "face reality" and make way for someone new.
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Apr 22, 2025
Five Democrats met with Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who face deportation by the Trump administration.
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Apr 22, 2025
The primary race in Kentucky for Mr. McConnell's seat is expected to be one of the biggest G.O.P. clashes of 2026. On Tuesday, it gained its second high-profile contender, Representative Andy Barr.
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Apr 22, 2025
The Democratic representative from suburban Detroit is likely to be seen as a centrist in the primary contest to replace Senator Gary Peters, who is retiring.
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Apr 20, 2025
"Facilitating his return means something more than doing nothing, and they are doing nothing," Senator Chris Van Hollen said after his trip to El Salvador.
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Apr 18, 2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison.
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Apr 18, 2025
Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump's actions.
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Apr 18, 2025
A 14-term Democrat from Western New York, he sponsored financial reforms to aid consumers and pressed Washington to protect Americans from environmental hazards.
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Apr 18, 2025
Plus, meat is making a comeback.
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Apr 18, 2025
Earlier in the day, armed military officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.
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Apr 17, 2025
Out of power in Congress, Democrats who were slow to fight back against President Trump are increasingly finding ways to do so. But activists want much more.
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