Month: June 2025
June 29, 2025
Politics
Senate votes 51-49 to advance President Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ spending bill — despite opposition from 2 GOP lawmakers
Debate will now begin on the spending bill – and that could take hours as New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has promised to have the nearly 1,000-page measure...
June 29, 2025
Congress
Trump threatens Tillis with primary challenge
President Donald Trump said he would explore backing a primary challenger to two-term Sen. Thom Tillis Saturday — just hours after the North Carolina Republican voted against advancing the...
June 29, 2025
Congress
Senate Republicans put megabill on track for likely Monday passage
The vote came after a daylong scramble by GOP leaders to win over several Republican holdouts.
June 29, 2025
Politics
Elon Musk doubles down on ‘big beautiful bill’ criticism, calling it ‘utterly insane’ and ‘political suicide’
“Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future,” Musk concluded. “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to...
June 29, 2025
Congress
Megabill in limbo with GOP senators locked in last-minute talks
A Senate vote on advancing Republicans' party-line domestic-policy bill has been held open for more than two hours as GOP leaders scramble for the final votes. Vice President JD...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump blasts GOP Senator Thom Tillis as vote to advance the ‘big beautiful bill’ stalls in Senate: ‘BIG MISTAKE’
President Trump publicly chastised North Carolina GOP Senator Thom Tillis Saturday night for voting against his “big beautiful” bill – as a procedural vote to advance the measure in...
June 28, 2025
Congress
Drama builds ahead of Saturday vote on megabill
Senate Republicans say the vice president should stay close, with the need for a tie breaker possible.
June 28, 2025
Congress
‘Kill shot’: GOP megabill targets solar, wind projects with new tax
Senate Republicans stepped up their attacks on U.S. solar and wind energy projects by quietly adding a provision to their megabill that would penalize future developments with a new...
June 28, 2025
Politics
CNN’s Scott Jennings rips liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for nationwide injunction hypocrisy: ‘Some of these folks really are hacks’
"Now she voted against the decision on Friday. Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.” "Now she voted against the decision on Friday....
June 28, 2025
Congress
House could vote on megabill as soon as Tuesday
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told GOP members on a Saturday conference call to prepare for votes Tuesday evening or Wednesday on the sweeping Republican megabill, according to three...