Eleanor Mueller

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Eleanor Mueller

The ScoopHouse and Senate Democrats’ campaign arms teamed up on new internal polling that surveyed almost 20,000 voters to test how lawmakers can run on Republicans’ sprawling tax-and-spending bill in 2026. The results: “Messages that highlight GOP plans to cut key programs like Medicare and Medicaid … are consistently the most effective,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wrote in a memo shared with Semafor.

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Eleanor Mueller

NowNew York CNN — Stablecoins are on the verge of going mainstream, analysts say, as a landmark regulatory bill makes its way through Congress. The Senate is deliberating the GENIUS Act, which would provide a framework for regulating stablecoins. The bill last week passed a major procedural hurdle in the …

2 days ago | semafor.com | Burgess Everett |Eleanor Mueller

Senate Republicans have a new headache as they wrangle President Donald Trump’s megabill toward a final vote: panic on Wall Street over its proposed new retaliatory tax on certain foreign investment in the US. Corporate interests are pushing back against the bill’s escalating taxes against foreign investors from countries that impose “discriminatory” taxes on multinational business.

3 days ago | semafor.com | Burgess Everett |Eleanor Mueller

Senate Democrats are zeroing in on provisions in the GOP’s tax-and-spending package they believe violate Senate rules. They’ll soon get a chance to convince the chamber’s parliamentarian that parts of the bill are ineligible for reconciliation, the process that Republicans want to use to bypass the filibuster. Otherwise, the legislation will need 60 votes. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told Semafor Tuesday that Democrats are weighing a challenge to a proposed tax on remittance payments. And Sen.

3 days ago | semafor.com | Eleanor Mueller

Republicans are at odds over whether to claw back funding for an anti-HIV program as part of the GOP’s effort to pass legislation codifying DOGE cuts. The White House sent Congress a bill Tuesday that the Office of Management and Budget said would cut at least $9 million from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The total could be much more: A special message sent to lawmakers outlines as much as $900 million in rescissions to global health. Rep.