It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Senate G.O.P. leaders are planning to use what is known as the “nuclear option” to steer around the Senate’s in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free.
The president posted on social media that Hunter Biden would lose his security detail “effective immediately” and also identified the country he was vacationing in.
The question hovering over Washington was whether the confrontation was a spontaneous outburst or a planned verbal smack down.
Approval of the Republican budget plan left major questions about tax cuts and spending reduction for another day.
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.
The Senate is debating a fiscal blueprint that would pave the way for part of President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, while the House is on a separate track.
The South Carolina Republican told CNN that he “did not like” how Trump pardoned people who “beat up cops,” and suggested he would be open to curtailing the presidential pardon power.
Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton said that the former Trump aides faced continuing threats from Iran and that the decision could affect how current officials do their jobs.