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The Wednesday White House meeting is meant to be less of a debate on how to proceed and more of a final check-in to make sure all parties are on the same page, a source familiar told Fox News Digital...
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Trump has insisted his tariffs are necessary to rebalance global trade and rebuild domestic manufacturing.
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Cracks are growing between congressional Republicans and former President Trump over his tariff policy, with some lawmakers looking to strip him of his unilateral tariff authority and others
Speaker Mike Johnson and his GOP leadership team on Saturday sought to tamp down a brewing revolt on the budget resolution that emerged even before the Senate adopted the plan in the wee hours and gained steam later in the morning.
Trump to meet with House GOP leaders before vote on Senate budget resolution, with outcome uncertain
President Donald Trump is expected to meet with GOP House leaders Tuesday prior to the chamber's vote on the Senate's version of his budget resolution. The National Republican Congressional Committee is holding a fundraiser Tuesday evening at which Trump will be the guest of honor, according to the news outlet NOTUS.
Speaker Mike Johnson is rallying House Republicans around the reconciliation process after the Senate passed its own version of such a bill.
The House and Senate need to resolve their differences. The House Republicans had already approved their version, with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks over 10 years and some $2 trillion in budget cuts pointed at changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other programs, and some have panned the Senate's approach.
After about six hours of amendment votes, the Senate approved a budget blueprint Saturday morning by a vote of 51-48.
House Republican leaders are urging their members to adopt the Senate’s version of the budget resolution that will tee up President Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda, arguing that major
Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 ranking GOP senator, said voters gave Republicans a mission in November, and the Senate budget plan delivers. "It fulfills our promises to secure the border, to rebuild our economy and to restore peace through strength," Barrasso said, according to the Associated Press.
The next majority leader of the North Carolina Senate is a top budget-writer who has managed to keep his Senate seat by winning close swing district races.
Republicans are growing anxious about an emerging Texas primary engulfing one of their longest-serving senators, fearful that a hugely expensive intraparty feud will have major ramifications across the map in next year’s midterms.