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5 days ago | 
nbcnews.com | Melanie Zanona |Julie Tsirkin |Scott Wong |Sahil Kapur
/ Updated President Donald Trump’s last-minute push to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans is running into a buzzsaw of opposition in the Republican Party, where such proposals have long been anathema.
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6 days ago | 
nbcnews.com | Julie Tsirkin |Kate Santaliz |Brennan Leach |Frank Thorp V
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate is expected to move forward with a vote Thursday on a bipartisan crypto regulation bill, but it’s unclear if enough Democrats will support it as negotiations between the two parties are ongoing. The Senate Banking Committee passed the GENIUS Act, which would create the first U.S. regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to currencies like the dollar, in April, with five Democrats backing the legislation.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Julie Tsirkin
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate is expected to move forward with a vote Thursday on a bipartisan crypto regulation bill, but it’s unclear if enough Democrats will support it as negotiations between the two parties are ongoing. The Senate Banking Committee passed the GENIUS Act, which would create the first U.S. regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to currencies like the dollar, in April, with five Democrats backing the legislation.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Bridget Bowman |Melanie Zanona |Ryan Nobles |Julie Tsirkin
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to pass on a Senate bid has top Republican officials scrambling to find a backup plan and avoid a divisive primary — or, at the very least, one divisive candidate. There are growing concerns in Georgia GOP circles that if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes the Republican nominee to take on Democratic Sen.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Brennan Leach |Kate Santaliz |Julie Tsirkin |Frank Thorp V
WASHINGTON — Some Senate Republicans are raising concerns about an exclusive dinner and White House tour President Donald Trump is offering top investors in his $TRUMP meme token. “This is my president that we’re talking about, but I am willing to say that this gives me pause,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming, who has been spearheading a legislative push on cryptocurrency regulation in the Senate.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Brennan Leach |Kate Santaliz |Julie Tsirkin
5 hours agoTrump says he's yanking Harvard's tax-exempt statusThe president said revoking the university’s tax-exempt status is “what they deserve!” President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration would revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, escalating his fight with the nation’s oldest institution of higher education.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Scott Wong |Frank Thorp V |Julie Tsirkin |Kate Santaliz
WASHINGTON — The leadership election to succeed retiring Sen. Dick Durbin as the No. 2 Democrat in the chamber is a year and a half away, but Sen. Brian Schatz is already racking up endorsements. Since Durbin, 80, of Illinois, announced last week that he wouldn't seek re-election in 2026, Schatz, 52, of Hawaii, has been aggressively working behind the scenes to consolidate support for the post of Senate Democratic whip, having key allies speak to colleagues and securing at least eight endorsements.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Julie Tsirkin
WASHINGTON — Emily Stenson’s life changed forever when she learned that her daughter, Charlie, then 3, had stage four germ cell cancer. Charlie, now 5, is cancer-free. But the clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health that Stenson says saved her daughter’s life are at risk, with the Trump administration weighing whether to slash billions more in funding and fire hundreds of scientists from the agency in an effort to downsize the federal government.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Carol Lee |Julie Tsirkin |Yamiche Alcindor |Dareh Gregorian
National security adviser Michael Waltz and deputy national security adviser Alex Wong are expected to leave President Donald Trump's administration, according to three sources with knowledge of their expected departures. Waltz, a former Florida congressman, has been on shaky ground with Trump since March after he inadvertently added a journalist to a private chat on the messaging app Signal with other top national security officials to discuss military strikes in Yemen.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnewyork.com | Rebecca Shabad |Frank Thorp V |Kate Santaliz |Julie Tsirkin
A bipartisan measure that sought to undo the sweeping tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on most countries earlier this month failed in the GOP-led Senate on Wednesday. The vote ended in a tie, 49-49, with three Republicans — Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joining all Democrats present in support of the resolution, which would terminate the national emergency Trump declared to implement the global tariffs. Sens.
