House GOP holdouts threaten to delay final vote on “big, beautiful bill”

Washington — House Republican leaders are scrambling to shore up support for President Trump’s massive domestic policy bill amid pushback to the Senate’s changes as the GOP seeks to approve the final version of the legislation ahead of a July 4 deadline to get the bill to the president’s desk.  As the House convened Wednesday to take

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him fire members of consumer safety panel

Washington — President Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow him to fire three members of the independent Consumer Product Safety Commission. The request to the high court by Solicitor General D. John Sauer arose from a federal judge’s decision earlier this month that found Mr. Trump’s removal of the three commissioners

House convenes to take up Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after Senate passage

Washington — The House convened Wednesday to take up President Trump’s Senate-passed massive domestic policy bill, with Republicans aiming to approve the final version of the legislation ahead of a July 4 deadline to get the bill to the president’s desk. The House Rules Committee advanced the Senate’s changes to the bill overnight, setting up

Trump admin. freezes billions in funding for after-school and summer programs

Day camp providers and schools say the Trump administration’s funding freeze could ruin summer for low-income American families and jeopardize some after-school programs next year. The administration is holding back over $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and summer programs, English language instruction, adult literacy and more as it conducts a review to ensure

Musk vows to start a new political party. Here’s why that’s harder than it sounds.

As billionaire Elon Musk feuds with President Trump over his signature tax and domestic policy legislation, Musk has reupped his calls to launch a new political party — a daunting task even for the wealthiest person on Earth. Musk first floated launching a third party, dubbed the “America Party,” earlier this month, part of a

Judge says DHS can’t end protected status for Haitian migrants this year

The Trump administration cannot cut off legal status and work permits for hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants this fall, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday. The ruling by Brooklyn-based U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan, who was nominated by former President George W. Bush in 2006, prevents Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from following through