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The Senate on Tuesday said it would take up its budget resolution this week, setting the chamber on a path to enact the president’s agenda. It sets up a time-consuming process that also butts up against the House version, which is likely to be taken up when the chamber returns next week. The Senate’s budget…

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Senate Republicans are set to vote on their budget resolution this week as the chamber makes its move toward enacting a big chunk of President Trump’s agenda.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday announced plans for the chamber to take up the measure that the Senate Budget Committee advanced last week, putting it…

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Monday compared Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers to young World War II soldiers. Burchett was pressed by CNN’s Pamela Brown on DOGE’s reported attempt to enter an IRS system, as well as its overall access to data. “There’s a difference between civil service and checks and balances in place…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on five counts of bribery, wire fraud and soliciting illegal campaign contributions from foreign nationals, had his case dropped by Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove after Adams began a full-court press to cozy up to Trump.

Pundit Stephen A. Smith again raised the possibility of a presidential run as a Democrat, blasting the party in the process and saying it has no obvious candidate to take on Republicans in the next election. “I’m not in the news because I’m here,” Smith said during an episode of his podcast. “I’m in the…

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a former prominent Trump fundraiser who was appointed during the president’s first term, announced Tuesday he would be stepping down. In a release, the U.S. Postal Service said DeJoy had notified its board of directors that it was “time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor.” “While there…

New York Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand wrote a Monday letter to newly minted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., urging him to reverse recent cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that impact a program for 9/11 first responders. “To say funding for 9/11 first responders…

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) criticized Vice President Vance for the rhetoric he used during his address to European leaders last week during the Munich Security Conference.  “He was talking about the enemy within. This is some of the same language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust,” Moulton said Monday during an appearance on MSNBC. …

President Trump and Elon Musk, one of his top allies, argued that the mainstream media is trying to drive a wedge between them and stymie the president’s agenda. “That’s true,” Trump responded when Fox News host Sean Hannity told the president leading outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post “threw everything they had…