POLITICS

Fiery Senate EPA Budget Hearing Presages Clashes to Come

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The administration’s 55-percent slash in agency spending drew heated objections from Democrats in debates that devolved into shouting matches. The Trump administration’s proposed $4.2 billion fiscal year 2026 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency cuts its spending by 55 percent, slashes its 15,000-worker staff by at least a third, rolls back a broad slate of

House Passes Trump Agenda Bill in Early Morning Vote

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After weeks of negotiations, in a tight vote just before 7:00 a.m., the House approved the ‘big beautiful bill’ central to the president’s agenda. The House of Representatives in the early morning hours of May 22 approved legislation to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda, capping off weeks of negotiations and uncertainty within the House Republican

Vote on GOP budget bill may come within hours, as leaders try to win over holdouts

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Washington — President Trump met Wednesday with key conservative holdouts to the massive budget package containing his second-term agenda, before GOP leaders made concessions to fiscal hawks and blue-state Republicans — as leadership aims to hold a vote on the bill possibly within hours. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, returned from the meeting