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The House is preparing to vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint, a first step towards passing President Trump’s plans for spending and tax cuts.
From The New York Times
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will try again on Thursday to pass a blueprint for President Donald Trump's tax cuts, hoping to satisfy concerns from some lawmakers that it do...
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President Donald Trump pulled Elise Stefanik’s nomination to serve as ambassador to the United Nations last month.
Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to curtail the ability of judges to issue nationwide injunctions blocking government policies after key parts of President Donald Trump's agenda have been stymied by such court rulings.
W ASHINGTON — After abruptly halting votes, House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to try again Thursday to approve a Republican budget framework, having worked into the night to satisfy GOP holdouts who refused to advance trillions of dollars in tax breaks without deeper spending cuts.
While GOP wins were widely expected in the heavily red districts, Democrats narrowed the margins considerably from November, which may signal a shift in public sentiment.
2don MSNOpinion
Still, several rank-and-file Republicans have refused to go along with Trump’s crazed napkin-math trade agenda that assumes the U.S. has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered” by any country where the value of its exports exceeds its imports from the U.S.
Hard-line House conservatives say personal appeals from President Trump will not be enough to sway them to support a Senate budget resolution to advance the White House’s legislative agenda. A
The White House on Thursday pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations amid concerns over slim margins in the US House of Representatives, keeping one of Trump’s most vocal allies in Congress.
The decision was driven by fears that Stefanik’s departure from the House of Representatives ... Trump nor GOP leaders want to take any chances with their narrow House majority.
And it all threatened to erode GOP leaders’ power over the House floor, given their already historically slim majority. Luna already successfully garnered the 218 signatures needed to force a vote through the rarely-successful discharge petition process.