G.O.P. leaders scrounging for the votes to push through the president’s priorities have increasingly turned to him and his team to win over holdouts with special carve-outs and commitments.
In a visit to Pennsylvania, Vice President JD Vance stressed tax cuts and savings accounts for newborns, with no mention of trims to Medicaid and nutritional assistance programs many Trump voters rely on.
Vice President JD Vance spoke at a machine shop in eastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday to promote the Trump administration’s signature domestic policy legislation.
A casino in Reno, Nev. The change has led to backlash from the gambling industry, which argues that the tax increase will hurt the hospitality sector in states like Nevada.
Tucked into the huge set of tax cuts that Republicans passed into law this month was the expansion of an unusually valuable tax break for start-up investors.
Congress has expanded a tax break, known as the qualified small business stock exclusion, that allows investors and founders to skip out on paying taxes when they cash out their shares in start-ups.
The president’s marquee policy legislation is best known for slashing taxes and cutting social safety net programs. But the sweeping measure also included many little-noticed goodies and add-ons.
A fishing boat in Metlakatla, Alaska. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska may have come away with the biggest pot of benefits narrowly targeted to her state.
The Republican senator introduced a bill Tuesday that would block restrictions on key strategies that states rely on to finance Medicaid and double a rural hospital fund.
“I don’t accept it, and I don’t think anyone else should accept it,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said of the decision not to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein.
After the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy law, the Department of Homeland Security is poised to hire thousands of new immigration agents and double detention space.
The top Senate Democrat said the law would lead to widespread pain for voters, imperiling Republicans who supported it and allowing his party more openings to contest control of the Senate.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, on Capitol Hill this week. “The three issues we’re going to most campaign on: costs, jobs, and health care,” he said in an interview on Thursday.
Beijing has a history of warning Washington about the safety of its Treasury holdings. This time it may have reasons to stay silent, at least publicly.
The House passed a sweeping bill to extend tax cuts and slash social safety net programs. The budget office reported the measure would increase U.S. national debt by at least $3.4 trillion over a decade.
President Trump’s policy bill could remake American energy by slashing tax breaks for wind and solar power, and for electric cars, while maintaining federal support for fossil fuels as well as nuclear reactors and geothermal plants.
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