‘I think we can get to a place that will satisfy the SALT members as well as the low-sodium members,’ Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) says. Congressional Republicans remain at an impasse amid a couple of sticking points in their quest to pass their reconciliation bill, consisting of major items to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda.
The president said economic commitments secured in the Middle East will boost U.S. manufacturing and national security. President Donald Trump announced more than $200 billion in additional investment deals secured with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on May 15 during his visit to Abu Dhabi, cementing the United States’ partnership with the Arabian Peninsula nation.
Last month, a CDC panel said it was considering narrowing universal recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to stop recommending routine COVID-19 vaccines for children, teens, and pregnant women, a senior agency official confirmed to The Epoch Times. The development was first reported on May 15 by the
The senators want ‘performance indicators’ and a way to evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. aid to Mexico in battle against criminal organizations. The bipartisan Mexico Security Assistance Accountability Act introduced in the Senate on May 15 would require the State Department to come up with a strategy to dismantle the Mexican drug cartels with measurable
The Supreme Court on May 15 heard oral arguments in relation to the Trump administration’s request to lift nationwide injunctions placed on the president’s birthright citizenship order. The decision could determine how judges can address presidential actions. During the argument, the justices posed questions about how far lower court judges could go in issuing relief
Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he wrote in “Sociotraumatics,” a 2024 poem published
All components of the bill will either meet their spending limits or cut more spending than required—except defense, which is over budget. WASHINGTON—The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that the budget reconciliation bill being drafted by House Republicans will cost less than expected. Republicans are using the “budget reconciliation” process to enact President Donald