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Republicans Once Maligned Medicaid. Now Some See a Program Too Big to Touch
States and the federal government jointly pay for Medicaid, which offers nearly-free health care coverage for roughly 80 ...
Trump’s speech to Congress comes as he wields vast power almost daring lawmakers, courts to stop him
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump arrives this week on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech to Congress, a coequal branch ...
Republicans in Congress Turn Up Scrutiny of Fed as Inflation Persists
Congressional Republicans are ramping up scrutiny of the Federal Reserve, just as the central bank confronts stubborn ...
Senate bid to prevent boys from playing girls' sports gets stuck on filibuster
The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls ...
Mayor Johnson travels to Washington for final preparations before sanctuary city hearing
Mayor Brandon Johnson is in Washington, D.C. Monday, preparing for his showdown with a congressional committee over Chicago's sanctuary city law.
Trump administration official to brief Congress on USAID, sources say
Pete Marocco, deputy administrator-designate at the U.S. Agency for International Development, will meet with members of ...
The DOGE ethos comes to state governments
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, almost all governors have already ...
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As Trump prepares to address Congress, here’s how he’s testing the boundary of his authority
As legal cases mount, more than 100 so far challenging the legality of the Trump administration’s actions, the Republican ...
What to watch when Trump gives his big speech to Congress
President Trump’s speech on Tuesday evening isn’t technically considered a State of the Union address — that comes next year, ...
Where Jeff Bezos Went Wrong With The Washington Post
The day the world learned that Jeff Bezos would buy The Washington Post, the Amazon founder offered assurances that he would ...
From opposing robber barons to the New Deal to desegregation to DOGE, state attorneys general have long taken on Washington
In early February, the attorneys general of Minnesota, Oregon and Washington sought and were granted an order to stop the ...
Opinion
The House’s Republican bias is gone. But the gerrymander lives.
How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...