ANALYSIS: Between fiscal hawks, defenders of Medicaid and a potential stumbling block that may surprise you, this will be the ...

Senate Republicans are gearing up to debate President Donald Trump's tax cut package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and ...

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The filibuster is under the microscope again as Senate Republicans voted to overturn a federal regulation and nix California’s vehicle emissions standards, forcing the party to defend the maneuver ...

This is the Big Beautiful Bill you’ve heard so much about. And it’s certainly big — over 1,100 pages. Is it beautiful? Not ...

California's 2035 deadline for phasing out gas-powered cars is overturned after the Senate voted to rescined an EPA waiver empowering the Golden State's regulation.

The Senate totaled California’s signature climate change policy — mandating new cars sold be electric by 2035 — in a 51 to 44 ...

Democrats have used the filibuster to block four Republican-led bills in 2025, even though they tried to abolish it in 2022. Russia's 'poor weapons handling' likely caused the massive blasts that ...

Trump’s call to abolish the filibuster led 61 bipartisan senators to write a letter to leaders Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urging them to preserve it. Republicans’ views have ...

US District Judge John McConnell has ordered the reversal of Team Trump’s freeze on certain forms of federal assistance, yet he sat for nearly two decades on the board of a homeless services ...

Throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, Republicans decried Democratic threats to reform the Senate filibuster. They fought tooth and nail to maintain the 60-vote threshold for legislation ...