Johnson Delays Budget Vote As G.O.P. Defectors Balk
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Johnson Delays Budget Vote As G.O.P. Defectors Balk

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday was forced to delay a vote on the Republican budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s domestic agenda, after conservatives balked at a plan that they said would add too much to the nation’s debt. In a dramatic scene…

The House Republicans Holding Out Against Trump’s Budget and Tax Cut Plan
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The House Republicans Holding Out Against Trump’s Budget and Tax Cut Plan

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Representative Eric Burlison, a two-term congressman from Missouri’s Ozarks, is unequivocal about his support for President Trump. “I love the president,” he said this week as he walked through the Capitol. But Mr. Burlison is also one of about a dozen hard-line conservative…

Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump
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Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In his attacks on law firms, universities and other American institutions, President Trump is relying on an illusion. The illusion is that the institutions are powerless to fight back and that they face a choice between principle and survival. These institutions do not…

Democrats Show a Pulse: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections
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Democrats Show a Pulse: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk’s money can buy him love from Republicans, but not, it turns out, a Wisconsin Supreme Court election. A campaign awash in more than $25 million in spending by the world’s richest man and groups tied to him ended up much like…

Elon Musk Says ‘Destiny of Humanity’ Rests on Wisconsin Judicial Race
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Elon Musk Says ‘Destiny of Humanity’ Rests on Wisconsin Judicial Race

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk framed Tuesday’s election for Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court in nothing less than apocalyptic terms, telling a crowd on Sunday night in Green Bay that the vote could ultimately swing control of Congress — meaning it could effectively “affect the entire destiny…

They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the Trump White House.
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They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the Trump White House.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has added a twist. It wants to make those families bigger. As fertility rates have declined, a “pronatalist” cluster on the…

In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far
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In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Oklahoma’s conservative Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, and its conservative Republican schools superintendent have appeared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the years of Donald J. Trump, with the former sending Oklahoma guardsmen to the southern border and the latter stocking the state’s schools with Trump-branded…

Elon Musk to Campaign in Wisconsin Ahead of Supreme Court Election
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Elon Musk to Campaign in Wisconsin Ahead of Supreme Court Election

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk is heading back to the campaign trail. Mr. Musk, the Republican megadonor, said early Friday that he would be going to Wisconsin, apparently to campaign for the conservative candidate in a high-profile judicial contest. The visit, two days before the vote…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…