The $4 Trillion 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Breaks the Bank and Violates Congress' Own Budget Rules
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
CAFE standards try to accomplish a reasonable goal but in an ineffective way.
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
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Now nearly 100 state AI laws will remain in force—and nearly 1,000 more are already waiting in the wings.
Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
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Publicly funded homes in some cities are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per unit, but Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase funding for these inefficient projects.
The Senate parliamentarian says the 10-year AI moratorium may be passed by a simple majority through the Senate's budget reconciliation process.
The provision requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
Why Sen. Mike Lee's plan to sell public land doesn't go far enough
After accounting for the dynamic effects of the Trump-backed tax bill, the CBO concludes it will add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.
It’s not the only way the Republican senator is closer to democratic socialism than to traditional conservatism.
It requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
Sen. Blackburn introduced a bill this week that would make it a crime to publish the name of a federal law enforcement officer.
The disgraced former Democratic senator was convicted of accepting almost $1 million in bribes in exchange for, among other things, favors benefiting foreign governments.
For both practical and constitutional reasons, this is the obvious way out of the chaos Trump's tariffs have created.
Musk's opinion about the bill matters, since he is one of the few people in conservative politics who can get away with defying Trump.
A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."
Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to end the non-existent economic emergency failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday night.
A small but growing bipartisan movement in the Senate is pushing back against the president's imposition of tariffs, but there's plenty of room to go further.
The bill faces an uncertain future, but it is a faint glimmer of hope for those hoping to limit executive power over trade.
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Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday, Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.
"The only way you get less waste is to give them less money to spend," says the libertarian-adjacent senator from Kentucky.
A bill that purports to lower borrowing costs will instead drive many people to more expensive lenders.
Riley's murder was an atrocity. But the law bearing her name is a grab bag of authoritarian policies that have little to do with her death.
With just hours to go before it is set to shut down, many senators and representatives are still posting on the app they claim is too dangerous for the rest of us to use.
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The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
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What is paid out to Social Security beneficiaries is not a return on workers' investments. It's just a government expenditure, like any other.
The Social Security Fairness Act will boost payouts to public sector workers who receive pensions and did not pay taxes to support Social Security.
The president-elect's pick for FBI director says he rejects some of the right-wing sect's bizarre beliefs but agrees with "a lot of what the movement says."
"We're gonna come after the people in the media," the Trump stalwart warns. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out."
The nomination, which fell apart in record time for predictable reasons, reflected a pattern of impulsiveness that may yet defeat the president-elect's worst instincts.
Sen. Rand Paul's bill to require congressional consent for tariffs is getting new attention in the final weeks before Trump's return to power.
Trump's pick for attorney general is manifestly unqualified for the job, even without considering the salacious details of the ethics charges against him.
Several Republican senators have said they are not inclined to abdicate their "advice and consent" role in presidential appointments.
Even before the pandemic spending increase, the budget deficit was approaching $1 trillion. The GOP has the chance to embrace fiscal sanity this time if they can find the political will.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal perfectly demonstrates the shamelessness of those who support ending the filibuster.
Michiganders had to choose between a hawkish Democrat with an intelligence background and a hawkish Republican with an intelligence background for Senate.
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Remembering the first time a partisan Senate minority blocked a judicial nomination that enjoyed majority support.
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