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Republican senator ‘heartened’ by Pete Hegseth’s ‘rookie mistake’ during Brussel speech; ‘Russians are the bad guys’

Pete Hegseth stoked a row with his recent remarks on Ukraine, stating that the war-torn nation should let go of its aspirations to join the NATO.

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Author: Shweta Kukreti

Vulnerable Republican fires warning shot on House budget

Speaker Mike Johnson can afford to lose only one Republican and still adopt a party-line budget blueprint — and President Donald Trump’s agenda is on the line.

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Author: Ben Leonard,Meredith Lee Hill

‘The View’ Star Joy Behar Torches Mitch McConnell Over Last-Minute Trump Dissidence (VIDEO)

‘Thanks for nothing, Mitch.’

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Author: Amanda Bell, TV Insider

Bracing for a Shutdown Fight, Democrats Warn Their Votes Are Not a Given

As Democrats ponder how best to position themselves for a looming spending confrontation, they are finding novel ways to put Republicans on the spot.

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Author: Annie Karni

GOP lawmakers scramble to protect foreign aid as food relief languishes

Late Thursday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift the funding freeze on U.S. assistance and development programs abroad.

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Author: Annie Gowen,Katharine Houreld

After confirmation votes, Trump’s offensive against McConnell gets uglier

It seemed hard to imagine the president’s relationship with the Kentucky senator getting much worse. Then Trump questioned whether McConnell had polio.

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Author: Steve Benen

Hostage advocate and GOP mega-donor Miriam Adelson reportedly met with Trump, Witkoff this week

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Author: timesofisrael

Strategic Vision’s 2025 Most Loved Vehicle Awards: Republicans and Democrats Choose EVs as their Most Loved Vehicle, and It’s Not Tesla

Strategic Vision’s 2025 Most Loved Vehicle Awards: Republicans and Democrats favor EVs but not Tesla. BMW X5e & Mercedes-Benz EQB take top spots.

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Author: businesswire

Republicans bedeviled by Trump’s trio of new tax-cut ideas

Extending his 2017 cuts will be costly enough, without adding breaks for tips, overtime and Social Security.

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Author: Burgess Everett,Eleanor Mueller

RFK Jr. Outlines Priorities on Food, Vaccines, and Personnel

In a post-confirmation interview on Fox News, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t ban vaccines and has a ‘list’ of people to fire.

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Author: Chad de Guzman

Trump Tax-Cut Push Kicks Off With Much-Worse Deficit This Time

I’m Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston. Today we’re looking at the fiscal backdrop in the US as the Republican fiscal plan takes shape. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net or get in touch on X via @economics. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

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Author: Chris Anstey

DOGE Is a Blessing for the GOP

Why Republicans are just fine with Elon Musk gutting the government

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Author: Russell Berman

To extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, Republicans seek to overlook the cost

As congressional Republicans try to extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, some are considering an unusual plan to make them permanent while avoiding the political pain of massive spending cuts to pay for them: Argue that they will not deepen the federal deficit.

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Author: David Morgan

Senior Republican senator ‘puzzled and disturbed’ by Hegseth’s Ukraine remarks

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker is breaking with the line from the Trump White House.

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Author: Joe Gould,Jamie Dettmer

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Make America Healthy Again Commission

MAKING AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again

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Author: @whitehouse

As Trump Threatened a Primary, a G.O.P. Holdout on Hegseth Flipped

Before Senator Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, he worked with accusers to make the case against him in a bid to get G.O.P. leaders to scrap the vote altogether.

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Author: Annie Karni,Sharon LaFraniere,Carl Hulse,Kate Kelly,Jonathan Swan,Karoun Demirjian

Musk’s DOGE cuts programs, prompting mixed reactions from Congress as debate intensifies

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is already axing billions of dollars in federal spending.

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Author: Rachel Branning

Trump insults McConnell over RFK Jr. vote, casts doubts on polio diagnosis

‘I had no idea he had polio,’ Trump said when asked about the 82-year-old Kentucky senator’s decision to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Author: Brianna Tucker,Maegan Vazquez

Trump lays into McConnell after Senator continues rebellion: ‘Not equipped mentally’

President claims he never knew McConnell had polio, which the former leader of the Senate Republican Conference cited as a reason for not backing Robert F Kennedy’s nomination to be Health and Human Services Secretary

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Author: Katie Hawkinson

Trump reacts to McConnell voting against RFK Jr’s confirmation

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Author: Royce Johnson

RFK wins over senate doctors to secure confirmation as Trump’s health secretary

Mitch McConnell is the only Republican to vote against Kennedy after accusing him of ‘trafficking in dangerous conspiracy theories’

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Author: Cameron Henderson

Media Miss by the Right: As DOGE hammers away at the US government, Republicans stir with quiet objections

Republican lawmakers are expressing concerns about the effects of Trump’s executive actions on local industries and jobs.

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Author: Devin Pavlou

DeSantis signs Florida’s new immigration law after fight with Republicans

The Republican-led legislature and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis agreed on a final product after a rare intra-party political battle brought out death threats.

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Author: Lori Rozsa

‘YOLO McConnell’: Former Senate leader emerges as lone GOP voice against key Trump nominees

Out of Senate leadership and serving likely his last term, Mitch McConnell has often found himself on an island among Republicans in opposition to Trump.

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Author: Scott Wong,Sahil Kapur,Frank Thorp V

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