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Slow-moving congressional time management faced a test with President Trump's July 4 deadline for "big, beautiful bill," and lawmakers barely made it.
Republicans in Congress have muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill to passage. Here's what's in it.
St. Joseph resident Nyls Ferguson believes the "Big Beautiful Bill" will assist seniors and working people by not taxing social security or tips. % ...
Trump’s policy bill includes various cuts to Medicaid, which is expected to significantly affect the health care coverage of people with disabilities.
How Trump's mega-tax bill could affect Illinois The Joint Economic Committee projects 163,674 people in Illinois would lose Affordable Health Care Act coverage, and 335,000 would lose Medicaid ...
In this letter, I suggested that scientists should see philosophy as an ally, not a foe. Indeed, science is just "natural philosophy." And it worked! Bill Nye changed his mind.
The Senate clerks completed the full reading of the Senate GOP’s massive tax and spending bill on Sunday afternoon, allowing the chamber to start the countdown clock toward a final vote on the ...
The latest version of the Senate's massive budget bill that the Senate is racing through for a vote as soon as Saturday deals a fatal blow to the use of tax credits in place since 2005 to spur ...
Elon Musk criticized a Senate draft bill on his 54th birthday, claiming it would destroy millions of jobs by raising taxes on wind and solar projects not yet under construction.
Lawmakers pushed through for debate the president’s massive tax and immigration bill, but hurdles remain before GOP leaders can get the Senate bill passed and sent to the House.
Weeks after ending his war of words with President Trump, Elon Musk called the president’s bill “utterly insane and destructive.” ...
A provision in what I call the Big Ugly Bill — the budget reconciliation bill currently pending in the Senate — would devastate the judicial branch’s ability to carry out its constitutional ...