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Defense-focused Trump budget seeks to cut Democratic priorities

President Donald Trump unveiled a nearly $2.2 trillion spending request for fiscal 2027 Friday that features an enormous defense boost, posing a major challenge to GOP leaders as they seek an election-year spending deal with Democrats. National security spending would soar to $1.5 trillion in the fiscal year that begins…

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Trump’s budget would boost defense and slash domestic programs

President Donald Trump unveiled on Friday a nearly $2.2 trillion discretionary spending request for the coming fiscal year, a nearly 21 percent increase over the current year’s level because of a dramatic proposed boost in defense funding. The election-year spending blueprint doubles down on an administration drive to pump up the…

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Courts likely to block Trump’s effort to curtail mail-in voting

President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail mail voting through executive order will likely be ruled illegal in at least one of several lawsuits filed this week, experts said, the latest in the president’s long-running effort to assert federal control of elections. Democratic party groups and civil rights organizations have already…

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At the Races: Operation Republican rescue

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari Republican leaders have landed on a plan to end the shutdown of the…

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Pamela Bondi, staunch Trump ally, out as attorney general

President Donald Trump ousted Pamela Bondi as attorney general Thursday, closing out a tumultuous tenure punctuated by rolling controversies and attacks against the Justice Department’s traditional independence from the White House. Trump, who made the announcement in a social media post, said his former personal attorney, Deputy Attorney General Todd…

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Mixing religion and politics in America. That isn’t new. What makes today different?

If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is certainly fading fast. The evidence? A Supreme Court willing to rule in favor of faith-based lawsuits; a secretary of Defense framing the war in Iran in apocalyptic terms; a president pushing a law restricting voting…

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How much does the Homeland Security shutdown matter to the public?

Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman wonder what members of Congress are doing on their two-week recess, coming as it does while the Homeland Security Department isn’t being funded by Congress, as well as what they did, and observed, on recent trips back home to Arizona and Ohio, respectively. Show Notes:

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Democrats eye 2028 for bigger health care push

As Democrats vie to take control of Congress in the midterms this fall, their main message on health care policy is fairly straightforward: Undo Republicans’ Medicaid cuts and restore the health care subsidies that lapsed at the end of last year. But some analysts and lawmakers say momentum is growing…

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Senate Democrats call on CMS to rein in Medicare Advantage abuses

A group of Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren is pushing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to rein in abuses from Medicare Advantage insurers as the Trump administration considers a policy that would enroll more seniors in the program. The senators allege that Medicare Advantage is rife with…

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Senate tees up bill to end Homeland Security shutdown

The Senate took the first step Thursday in a GOP-backed plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, sending the House for a second time its bill to fund the department except for immigration enforcement. In an early-morning pro forma session, the Senate agreed, by voice vote, to table a…

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Wave of retirements and politics promise spending panel makeover

The House Appropriations Committee is set to undergo a major shake-up following the midterm elections, especially among its Republicans. With four members retiring, two running for Senate and four others in potentially tight reelection contests, nearly a third of the committee’s Republicans may not return in the next Congress. Democrats…

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Trump unites divided GOP leadership behind Homeland Security deal

President Donald Trump and GOP leaders united behind a plan Wednesday to end the record-breaking partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, committing themselves to a two-track strategy that includes passing a reconciliation bill for immigration enforcement funding by June 1. With the shutdown stretching into its seventh week…

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Judge denies Trump effort to end Jan. 6 lawsuits before trial

President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers. Judge Amit Mehta of…

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Supreme Court questions curtailing of birthright citizenship

A majority of the Supreme Court expressed hostility Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to restrict birthright citizenship, even as he became the first sitting president in the modern era to attend oral arguments. An attorney for the U.S. urged the justices to overturn multiple lower court…

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Congress awaits a royal address from King Charles

During the nation’s 250th anniversary, the British are coming — this time by invitation. His Majesty Charles III, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 28, House and Senate leaders announced Wednesday. “The relationship between…

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Trump to address nation on Iran as gas prices rise, poll numbers drop — and midterms loom

President Donald Trump will address the nation Wednesday night as soaring gas prices, an unpopular war in Iran and his slumping approval number have become a collective political thorn for Republicans heading into November’s midterm elections. Trump will use the prime-time address to repeat his Tuesday declaration that the U.S.…

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Congress must approve Trump ballroom, judge finds

President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom on the former site of the White House’s East Wing cannot move forward without authorization from Congress, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard J. Leon said when issuing a preliminary injunction on Tuesday. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, found that…

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Lawmakers said they wanted to rein in their own stock trading. What happened?

For a brief moment, it seemed like a bill to curb stock trading by members of Congress could see a vote in the House. Blessed by GOP leadership with hopes of a floor vote in the first quarter of the year, it would have been a victory for the small…

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Who’s the shutdown scapegoat now?

As Senate Majority Leader John Thune hashed out a deal aimed at ending the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, he may have thought Democrats were its biggest threat. Instead, his fellow Republicans across the Capitol were the ones to tank it. Now, instead of blaming Democrats for prolonging the shutdown,…

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As Iran war passes one-month mark, mission creep clouds Trump’s strategy

Mission creep has stymied U.S. presidents in the Middle East and beyond, and now the escalation of President Donald Trump’s military operation in Iran has left him with no clear off-ramp as congressional Democrats lambaste his command of the war. The commander in chief and his top war aides initially…

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Despite month of bombing, Iran retains some missile capability

Iran has retained some of its ability to launch offensive missile attacks after a month-long U.S.-Israeli bombardment of the country that was intended to cripple Tehran’s military might, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Tuesday. Iran “will still shoot some missiles, but we will shoot them down,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon…

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Supreme Court finds ‘conversion therapy’ law unconstitutional

The Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a Colorado law that bans so-called “conversion therapy” in talk therapy for LGBTQ patients. The decision found that such laws violate the free speech rights of counselors. The 8-1 decision reversed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that…

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GOP leadership schism

The House and Senate standoff over Homeland Security funding exposed a stunning disconnect between the top two Republican leaders. CQ Roll Call’s Aidan Quigley and David Lerman discuss the clash over funding strategies between the two chambers, the prospects for reaching a deal and whether a two-week recess will have…

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Lawsuit seeks damages for police use of force during Jan. 6 attack

Three individuals who were on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in Florida seeking damages related to the use of force by police officers during the attack. The federal lawsuit alleges police “physically assaulted members of the crowd” that assembled on the Capitol’s west-side outdoor…

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Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on future of birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday about President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine birthright citizenship, in a case experts said could confine Congress’ power to define who is considered part of the nation. The case turns on the president’s executive order to disallow citizenship for children born…

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