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GOP members of U.S. Senate probe RFK Jr. on his history of vaccine denial
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services ,departs after testifying in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education,...
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Get rid of FEMA? Trump-appointed group to look at shifting disaster response...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, tours the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continued to burn on Jan. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Eric...
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White House announces tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico, China
The White House announced that tariffs on products from Mexico, Canada and China will begin Feb. 1. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to implement tariffs on Canada, Mexico and...
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RFK Jr. nomination as health secretary approved by key U.S. Senate panel
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office...
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Lawmakers press Social Security on lag in paying expanded benefits to public...
President Joe Biden gives a pen to Bette Marafino, president of the Connecticut Chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans, after he signed the Social Security Fairness Act during an event in the...
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U.S. Senate confirms Russ Vought, a Project 2025 author, to manage the...
OMB nominee Russ Vought testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 15, 2025. (Screenshot from committee webcast)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted Thursday...
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Democratic AGs allege Trump administration is freezing federal funds despite...
President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Democratic attorneys...
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Federal judge orders all grant and loan payments must be resumed by Trump...
President Donald Trump addresses the 2025 Republican Issues Conference at the Trump National Doral Miami on Jan. 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal...
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Federal judge blocks ‘catastrophic’ Trump administration cut to NIH grant...
The National Institutes of Health announced Friday that it would cap “Facilities and Administrative” costs at 15%, a significant reduction for many institutions that use grants from the federal agency...
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Federal judge in nationwide ruling blocks Trump administration cut to NIH...
The James H. Shannon Building (Building One) on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 1, 2015. (Photo by Lydia Polimeni/National Institutes of Health)WASHINGTON — A...
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Trump administration and Democratic AGs launch battle over funding freeze in...
President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The 1st...
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U.S. House GOP releases budget that raises debt limit by $4 trillion, extends...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is pictured as snow began to fall on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans released their budget...
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You’re hearing a lot about budget reconciliation in Congress. What does that...
Members of the U.S. House Budget Committee on March 15, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., take part in a markup of the Reconciliation Act of 2010. Shown are the late Rep. John Spratt, a South...
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RFK Jr. confirmed as nation’s health chief despite vaccine denial, conspiracy...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, departs after testifying in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education,...
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Republicans worry GOP-led states will suffer from Trump’s firings of federal...
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski attends a gathering at a brew pub on Nov. 4, 2022, in Wasilla, Alaska. Murkowski recently posted on social media her concerns that more than 100 federal workers in her home...
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U.S. Senate to tackle budget resolution this week in marathon session
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate will debate a budget resolution this week that...
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Trump prefers U.S. House budget, but Senate GOP to forge ahead on its version
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., center, accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., right, speaks to reporters following a weekly Republican...
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U.S. Senate Dems issue warning on ‘massive cuts’ to Medicaid predicted in GOP...
From left, Democratic U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Patty Murray of Washington state, Peter Welch of Vermont and Raphael...
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Federal judge maintains temporary block on Trump freeze of grants and loans
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal judge will decide in...
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U.S. Senate adopts a ‘Plan B’ budget as GOP seeks billions for border security
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talks with reporters as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON...
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Federal judge extends order blocking ‘devastating’ NIH cap on research payments
Two National Institutes of Health researchers in the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center lab looking at a 3D model rendering. (Photo by National Institutes of Health)WASHINGTON — A federal...
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Why did the U.S. Senate pull an all-nighter on the budget? A look inside...
The sun sets on the U.S. Capitol on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. senators pulled an all-nighter Thursday into Friday, debating dozens of amendments to the...
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Federal judge blocks Trump funding freeze, saying it produced a ‘nationwide...
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a...
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U.S. House Republicans overcome own members’ doubts to push through sweeping...
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025, in...
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Trump demands plans for large-scale layoffs of more federal employees
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, center, and Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon, right, appear during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington,...
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USDA rolls out $1 billion plan to combat bird flu after egg prices rise
Bird flu, or H5N1, has disrupted the work of poultry farmers for years and began infecting dairy herds last year. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced...
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Trump, Zelenskyy clash in Oval Office blowup over peace negotiations
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON —...
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GOP tax cut plans may depend on savings from Medicaid. What is it and who...
About 60 percent of the nation’s 73 million children in 2022 received their health insurance through Medicaid or CHIP, which extends Medicaid benefits to children of low-income families who make too...
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Deep cutbacks in Social Security staff slammed by U.S. Senate Democrats
The Social Security Administration has announced that it would “soon implement agency-wide organizational restructuring that will include significant workforce reductions.”(Photo illustration by...
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Trump boasts ‘America’s momentum is back’ in address to Congress as Dems...
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Vice President J.D. Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana,...
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Trump may put hundreds of federal buildings up for sale, including FBI, USDA,...
The current FBI headquarters building in downtown Washington, D.C., on Nov. 23, 2023. The goverment has been looking for a new home for the agency for years and now the Trump administration has it on a...
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U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump in legal fight over $2B in frozen...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to continue payments on $2 billion in...
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Trump administration’s ‘irreparable’ cut in NIH research funds blocked by judge
An NIH Pediatric Oncology Branch researcher's lab jacket, embroidered with the NIH logo with blue chevron detail. The POB is dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young adults with cancer...
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State-by-state report by Dems projects millions of people could lose Medicaid...
Medicaid sign at U.S. Senate Democrats’ press conference on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A report released Thursday by Democrats details how many people in...
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Second federal judge issues order blocking White House freeze on grants and...
President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal...
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Republicans control Congress, but need Democrats to help avert a shutdown...
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025 in...
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U.S. House GOP pushes through bill averting shutdown on Friday; Senate is next
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks alongside Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., left, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., right, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on...
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Republicans in U.S. Senate form group to study restructuring the CDC
U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing an overhaul of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pictured here. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)WASHINGTON — Louisiana...
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Shutdown looms as ‘unified’ U.S. Senate Dems oppose GOP’s stopgap spending bill
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference following a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty...
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Schumer support for GOP spending bill appears to possibly stave off...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced during...
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Hours away from shutdown, U.S. Senate clears spending bill for Trump’s signature
U.S. Capitol at sunset on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate cleared a stopgap spending bill Friday that will fund the government through the end of...
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts pushes back against Trump call to impeach...
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan attend U.S. President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington,...
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Medicaid cuts rippling through rural America could bring hospital closures,...
A sign at the entrance for Mahaska Health, a hospital in Oskaloosa, Iowa, that has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (Photo by Cecilia Lynch/USDA). WASHINGTON — Americans living...
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Social Security nominee vows service will improve despite mass firings,...
Frank Bisignano, the nominee for Social Security commissioner in the Trump administration, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at his confirmation hearing on March 25, 2025. (Screenshot from...
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EMILYs List sets ambitious course to flip U.S. House in 2026
Abortion advocates and Democratic U.S. House members march in front of the U.S. Capitol on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A group that focuses on electing...
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Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health nominees confirmed
Jayanta Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor...
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‘Signalgate’ group chat revealed precise attack timeline, surveillance of target
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., points to text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an annual worldwide threats assessment hearing at the Longworth House Office Building on March...
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to slash 10,000 jobs, close 5...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington,...
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Appeals court turns down Trump administration on reinstating OMB funding freeze
A federal appeals court on March 27, 2025, denied a request from the Trump administration to overturn a lower court’s preliminary injunction, which has so far blocked the White House budget office from...
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Appropriators in Congress issue warning to White House budget office
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks to reporters during a press conference inside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The top...
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