It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda.
The House passed bills imposing voting and policing policies on the District of Columbia, but the G.O.P. has refused to consider a measure to restore hundreds of millions of dollars of its funding.
Senators criticized the head of the National Institutes of Health for not taking responsibility for Trump administration cuts to research funding.
A group of fiscal hard-liners on the Budget Committee blocked the bill Friday morning. The group will try again to pass the president’s megabill out of committee Sunday night.
Members of two key House committees worked all night on a sprawling domestic policy bill. Some fell asleep along the way.
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has emerged as one of his party’s staunchest defenders of Medicaid.
A House Republican bill introduced this week would do away with tax credits that had encouraged Americans to buy electric vehicles and automakers to invest in new factories.
Elon Musk’s group is no longer claiming credit for canceling those contracts after The New York Times reported that they were revived.
A widely circulated talking point about Medicaid cuts inflates the legislation’s effects by about five million people.
The proposal, which is to be considered this week by a key House panel, omits some of the furthest-reaching reductions to the health program but would leave millions without coverage or facing higher costs.