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Deportations, tariffs and federal workforce cuts define Trump’s second-term...
Demonstrators holds signs as a motorist passes with flags supporting President Donald Trump during an April 5, 2025, protest in Columbia, South Carolina. Protestors organized nationwide demonstrations...
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Will Trump and Republicans quash the FBI headquarters move to Maryland?
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen on Jan. 28, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The decade-long endeavor to move the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of...
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Trump’s election as president certified by Congress, four years after Capitol...
U.S. Senate pages carrying the Electoral College certificates in wooden ballot boxes walk through the Capitol rotunda on their way to the U.S. House chamber on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer...
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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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Deportations, tariffs and federal workforce cuts define Trump’s second-term...
Demonstrators holds signs as a motorist passes with flags supporting President Donald Trump during an April 5, 2025, protest in Columbia, South Carolina. Protestors organized nationwide demonstrations...
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Nonpartisan poll finds ‘remarkably low’ trust in federal health agencies
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the 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...
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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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Congressional budget agency projects sweeping Medicaid cutbacks in states...
U.S. House Republicans are debating cutbacks to Medicaid, the health care program for lower-income Americans and some people with disabilities. (Photo by Thomas Barwick/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The...
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FEMA leader ousted, one day after publicly opposing agency’s elimination
Cam Hamilton, at the time senior official performing the duties of the administrator at FEMA, testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on May 7, 2025. (Screenshot from House...
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Puzzled senators question Trump’s FBI chief on nonexistent spending plan
FBI director Kash Patel testifies before a U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Photo from U.S. Senate webcast)WASHINGTON — The case of the missing Federal Bureau of...
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Treasury advises Congress must deal with debt limit before August or face...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares to testify before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 16, 2025, in...
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Trump again tries to defund NPR and PBS, sparking a new congressional battle
A protester holds a sign in support of funding for public media during a May 1, 2025, rally at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka as part of a 50501 national day of action. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas...
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U.S. House GOP mandates Medicaid work requirements in giant bill slashing...
The U.S. House will begin debate in committee this week on a bill that would cut Medicaid spending. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans plan to debate and approve the three final pieces...
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Amid protests and Democratic pushback, U.S. House GOP launches work on...
Capitol Police remove a protester in a wheelchair from the House Energy And Commerce Committee hearing room during the committee markup of part of the budget reconciliation package on May 13, 2025 in...
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U.S. House panel passes GOP plan that cuts Medicaid by $625B, adds work...
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., left, and ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., right, speak during a markup with the committee on Capitol Hill on May 13, 2025 in...
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U.S. House right wing tanks Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in Budget Committee
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)WASHINGTON — Republicans suffered a major...
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Giant tax and spending bill in U.S. House remains snagged by GOP disputes
President Donald Trump arrives with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., for a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty...
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U.S. House GOP revamps giant budget bill in bid to appease hard right
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...
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U.S. House Republicans push through massive tax and spending bill slashing...
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. House early Thursday...
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NPR sues over Trump order cutting off its funding, citing First Amendment
The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A collection of National Public Radio stations...
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