Johnson Rules Out an Aggressive Plan to Cut Medicaid as G.O.P. Moderates Waver
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Johnson Rules Out an Aggressive Plan to Cut Medicaid as G.O.P. Moderates Waver

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Speaker Mike Johnson has dropped one of the most aggressive options the G.O.P. was considering to cut Medicaid costs to help pay for President Trump’s domestic agenda, bowing to pressure from politically vulnerable Republicans and underscoring the deep party divisions imperiling the plan….

Opinion | Trump’s Tariffs Have Set Up a Trap for Mike Johnson and John Thune
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Opinion | Trump’s Tariffs Have Set Up a Trap for Mike Johnson and John Thune

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After more than 100 days of President Trump marked by overreach and economic self-immolation, congressional Republicans need a reset to save their political fortunes. Representative Mike Johnson, the House speaker, is banking on a spending and tax cut package to provide that jolt,…

Fencing Is the Latest Sport Caught in the Transgender Athlete Debate
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Fencing Is the Latest Sport Caught in the Transgender Athlete Debate

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A forfeited match and a viral video. An angry knock on the door. Death threats. An avalanche of political pressure, leading to a hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Washington. The niche sport of fencing is usually not one that elicits fevered emotion beyond…

Bob Filner, Mayor of San Diego Who Left Amid Scandal, Dies at 82
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Bob Filner, Mayor of San Diego Who Left Amid Scandal, Dies at 82

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Bob Filner, a progressive Democrat who served two decades in Congress and then successfully ran for mayor of San Diego, promising to shake up City Hall — but whose career imploded within months amid a storm of sexual harassment charges — died on…

Elise Stefanik, Cabinet Hopes Dashed, Considers Her Next Move
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Elise Stefanik, Cabinet Hopes Dashed, Considers Her Next Move

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Styrofoam packing peanuts littered an empty office in the Rayburn House Office Building across from the Capitol on Monday morning as two moving men unpacked a plush couch, an upholstered armchair, lamps and a lucite side table. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York…

David Hogg, Parkland Survivor and D.N.C. Vice Chair, Hopes to Unseat Democratic Incumbents
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David Hogg, Parkland Survivor and D.N.C. Vice Chair, Hopes to Unseat Democratic Incumbents

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic…

Plane Carrying 6 Members of Congress Is Clipped at Reagan Airport
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Plane Carrying 6 Members of Congress Is Clipped at Reagan Airport

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Thursday, officials said. There were no injuries, according to American Airlines,…

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…

He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.
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He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Last March, when Rob Bresnahan, Jr., a wealthy Republican business executive, was running to represent a competitive House district in northeastern Pennsylvania, he published a letter to the editor in a local newspaper demanding an end to stock trading by members of Congress….