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4 days ago |
thehill.com | Alexander Bolton
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is moving full speed ahead toward a planned vote this week on his chamber’s version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” despite pushback from GOP colleagues and serious doubts about his prospects.
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5 days ago |
thehill.com | Alexander Bolton
The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against a controversial provision in the Senate Republicans’ megabill that would have made it significantly more difficult for courts to enforce contempt findings against the Trump administration. The parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that limiting courts’ ability to hold Trump officials in contempt violated the Senate’s rules governing what can be passed with a simple-majority vote on the budget reconciliation fast track.
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5 days ago |
thehill.com | Alexander Bolton
Senate Republicans have directed the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to score the cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts as a continuation of current policy that would not add significantly to federal deficits, which would allow them to make those tax rates permanent.
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6 days ago |
thehill.com | Alexander Bolton
The Senate parliamentarian on Friday ruled against several more Republican provisions in President Trump’s megabill, including language to bar immigrants who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents from receiving food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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6 days ago |
aol.com | Alexander Bolton
The Senate parliamentarian on Friday ruled against several more Republican provisions in President Trump’s megabill, including language to bar immigrants who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents from receiving food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) calls talk of finding up to $275 billion in spending cuts to Medicare by “modernizing CMS” “insane.” “I don’t like the idea of that at all,” he says of proposals to find major cost reductions in Medicare.
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee are looking at incorporating Bill Cassidy-sponsored proposal to root out waste, fraud and abuse from Medicare Advantage program into the "big, beautiful bill" BBB. It would save an estimated $275 billion. https://t.co/i73l7Vn2XR
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo warned colleagues at a meeting Wednesday that Trump's big, beautiful bill is already facing two "no" votes in GOP conference and urged colleagues to stick together to keep in from derailing. https://t.co/GvsP6UNHgu