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The House of Representatives is beginning the final legislative sprint of President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ before the commander in chief signs it into law. The powerful House panel is the final gatekeeper before most pieces of legislation get a chamber-wide vote. It comes after the Senate spent more than 24 hours straight considering the bill, eventually passing it along the narrowest of margins around midday Wednesday. Vice President JD Vance was on Capitol...

Senate Republicans coalesced to pass President Donald Trump’s colossal ‘big, beautiful bill’ early Tuesday morning.  Senate Republican leaders and the White House have pitched the legislative behemoth as a means to turbocharge the economy, root out waste, fraud and abuse in a slew of federal programs, and to make crucial investments in defense and Trump’s border and immigration priorities.  Meanwhile, Senate Democrats have bashed the bill as a deficit-ballooning monstrosity that would boot millions of...

The Senate has completed consideration of President Donald Trump’s $3.3 trillion, 940-page agenda bill, sending it back to the House of Representatives to sync up before hitting the commander in chief’s desk for his signature. It first passed the House by just one vote in late May, and now it must advance through the chamber one more time before it can be signed into law. That’s because the Senate made some key changes to the...

USAID will no longer send foreign assistance across the globe, with the State Department taking over any such programs that President Donald Trump’s administration wishes to continue, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday. Rubio made the announcement in a Tuesday statement, saying USAID had for decades failed to ensure the programs it funded actually supported America’s interests. The State Department will take over foreign assistance programs beginning July 1, he said. ‘Beyond creating a...

Senate Republicans rallied to send President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ back to the House, notching a major victory in their record-shattering march toward getting the legislation signed into law. Nearly every Republican in the upper chamber coalesced to advance Trump’s $3.3 trillion megabill, save for Sens.Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Rand Paul, R-Ky, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. No Senate Democrat crossed the aisle to support the bill. Vice President JD Vance’s tie-breaking vote was needed to...

The House of Representatives is expected to take up the Senate’s modified version of President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ this week. The Senate passed the bill after a marathon weekend session, which included Democrats forcing a read-through of the entire 940-page text. Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. The bill first passed the House in late May by just one vote – and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will have a margin of...

An Iran-linked cyber group is threatening to release a trove of emails it claims to have stolen from top Trump officials and allies.  The hackers previously released a batch of stolen emails to the media during the 2024 campaign.  Under the pseudonym Robert, the hackers first told Reuters they had roughly 100 gigabytes of emails from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan and Stormy...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk threatened to support primary challenges of GOP senators who vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ prompting pushback from some senators who spoke to Fox News Digital.  ‘I’ll take President Trump’s endorsement over Elon’s any day of the week back home,’ Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall told Fox News Digital. ‘Look, we need to pass this bill because it helps fulfill President Trump’s agenda. His priorities...

Israel’s Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which oversees humanitarian and civil efforts in Gaza, released two revealing conversations between Gaza residents and officers from the Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA) for Gaza. The Gaza residents, who COGAT — an Israeli  says were at humanitarian aid distribution sites, told a CLA officer about how Hamas tries to disrupt the aid system through violence and manipulation. The testimonies reveal that ‘Hamas fires at Gaza...

The No. 2 House Republican is dismissing Elon Musk’s attacks on President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ after the tech billionaire once again jumped into the public fray over the legislation. ‘His criticism has been consistently off-base,’ House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital on Monday.  ‘You know, this is a bill that will create millions of jobs. And, you know, you go back and look at what happened in 2017 when...