#GOP leaders blink, makes last-minute changes to debt bill

#GOP leaders blink, makes last-minute changes to debt bill

House GOP leadership apparently caved to Midwestern Republicans and hardliners on their major debt limit and tax cut bill overnight, making changes to biofuel tax credits and public assistance work requirement provisions despite insisting on Tuesday that they were done negotiating the measure and would not make any more changes to it. The last-minute changes…

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#Kevin McCarthy will meet Taiwan’s president with an eye on China

#Kevin McCarthy will meet Taiwan’s president with an eye on China

An expected meeting between Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen this week in California is a careful exercise in standing up to Beijing’s threats while holding back from triggering a war in the Pacific. For Tsai, a Los Angeles run-in with Washington’s most powerful California representative, is a convenient and strategic cover…

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#Dems react to Trump indictment with glee — and anxiety

#Dems react to Trump indictment with glee — and anxiety

House Democrats reacted with mixed emotions this week to the historic indictment of former President Trump, with some cheering the move with bald jubilation and others approaching much more cautiously ahead of Trump’s expected arraignment on Tuesday.  While both camps are united behind the central premise that no one in America is above the law,…

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#Jeffries warns Trump’s words may ‘get someone killed’

#Jeffries warns Trump’s words may ‘get someone killed’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Friday that an escalation in violent rhetoric by former President Trump has the potential “to get someone killed.” Trump, who is under investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) related to hush money payments to an adult film actress, had written hours earlier that charges brought against…

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