A growing GOP coalition supports a two-track reconciliation process to secure border funding and extend Trump-era tax cuts. A growing coalition of House and Senate Republicans has united around a two-step legislative strategy aimed at advancing President-elect Donald Trump’s border security and tax policy agenda in the new Congress. In a letter to incoming Senate
The Department of Energy’s rush to fund new green energy projects before the end of President Joe Biden’s presidency has met renewed criticism from the Department of Energy inspector general. In a Dec. 17 interim finding, Inspector General Teri Donaldson warned that $385 billion in new money made available by the Inflation Reduction Act and
The Senate is slated to vote on the Social Security Fairness Act this week. The Senate this week will attempt to pass legislation designed to provide full Social Security benefits to millions of American retirees. Senators are due to schedule a test vote on the bill on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has
Legislation to expand Social Security benefits to millions of Americans cleared a key hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday afternoon and is now headed toward a final vote. Senators voted 73-27 to approve a motion to proceed with consideration of the Social Security Fairness Act, according to an unofficial Senate tally shown in a webcast on the
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a conservative revolt over a last-minute measure to keep the government funded into the spring and avoid a shutdown, with some Republicans strongly objecting to billions of dollars in spending that has been added to the bill. Congressional leaders unveiled the stopgap funding measure late Tuesday after days of
35 percent of new car sales must be electric in California and 11 other states next year under new mandate President Joe Biden drives an electric truck (Wikimedia Commons) The Biden-Harris administration approved California’s electric vehicle mandate that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars over the next decade—a move that impacts 11 other
Heiress, model and actor Paris Hilton is the force behind a bill headed to President Biden’s desk that’s aimed at preventing the abuse of minors at rehab and other residential facilities. The House passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act in a bipartisan 373-33 vote Wednesday, after the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent