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1 week ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson
Democrats warn that if Republicans cut Medicaid funding, particularly from the expansion population as the GOP has suggested is a target, it could reduce funding for opioid addiction treatment. A report from the Joint Economic Committee Democrats, led by New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, found that roughly 1 million people receive medication treatment for “opioid use disorder” through Medicaid.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson
President Trump said Senate Democrats are threatening national security and demonstrating “hostility” as they hold up quick confirmation of his ambassador nominees. Several Senate Democrats have placed holds on ambassador and other Trump nominees, which blocks the Senate from using its unanimous consent process to quickly confirm the nominees.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Alex Miller |Lindsey McPherson
House Republicans coalesced and adopted the Senate’s budget rewrite on Thursday after spending the week bashing the upper chamber’s offering as an unserious attempt at cutting spending. Closed-door meetings and assurances that Senate Republicans are serious about steep spending cuts, in line with the House’s budget blueprint, helped sway frustrated House fiscal hawks and save President Trump’s agenda from a costly derailment.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson
- The Washington Times - The House late Wednesday passed a bill to limit district court judges from imposing nationwide injunctions — the types of rulings that have thwarted several of President Trump’s wide-reaching executive orders. The 219-213 vote fell mostly along party lines. The only exception was Rep. Mike Turner, Ohio Republican, voting against the bill and his party.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Alex Miller |Lindsey McPherson
Senate changes to a budget blueprint for enacting President Trump’s agenda cleared a crucial House test vote on Wednesday, but simmering discontent among fiscal hawks still threatened to derail the resolution. Several of the holdouts planned to huddle with GOP senators trying to save the resolution and get it across the finish line in the House, perhaps by Wednesday evening.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson
- The Washington Times - Republicans are discussing whether to raise the top individual tax rate or create a new bracket for millionaires and billionaires to help pay for other priorities in their sweeping tax and spending bill. Increasing taxes on top earners is not widely supported among Republicans who prefer to keep taxes low for all as a way to juice investment into the economy.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson
The House will hold a test vote Wednesday afternoon on a Senate-altered budget blueprint for enacting President Trump’s agenda, and if it succeeds, a final vote soon after. House Republicans cannot afford to lose more than three votes from their party on either vote, given the united Democratic opposition.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson |Alex Miller
President Trump convinced a few House Republicans to back Senate changes to the budget blueprint for enacting his agenda, but he hasn’t dissolved enough of the opposition. The president met with some of the holdouts on Tuesday because House GOP leaders are far short of the votes they need to adopt the revised budget this week, as scheduled. Republicans cannot afford to lose more than three votes on the budget.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson
The House on Tuesday formalized a process to allow lawmakers who just had a baby or otherwise need to take an emergency leave of absence to register their votes from afar. The vote-pairing arrangement, brokered between House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, was opposed by Democrats, who preferred a measure to reinstate a limited form of proxy voting for new parents. “The changes agreed upon by the speaker are not a win for us,” Rep.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Lindsey McPherson |Alex Miller
President Trump will meet with House Republicans who refuse to sign off on Senate changes to the budget blueprint for enacting his agenda. The holdouts refuse to back the Senate version because it lowered the bar for spending cuts. The critical meeting at the White House on Tuesday afternoon comes as House GOP leaders are far short of the votes they need to adopt the revised budget this week, as scheduled.
