Maddie Gannon

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday hosted members of the Fraternal Order of Police at the White House for a roundtable in which he praised its leadership’s support of what he calls his “one big, beautiful bill” as it works its way through Congress.

1 day ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | Maddie Gannon

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Thursday said he was “pleading” with Senate leaders to keep the state and local tax deduction cap at the same level it was at in the House-passed version of the bill containing President Donald Trump’s agenda.

2 days ago | spectrumnews1.com | Maddie Gannon

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave no indication that Russia and Ukraine were any closer to notching a deal to end the war while sitting down with Germany’s new leader — a key backer of Kyiv — in the Oval Office on Thursday. The visit from Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in which the war in Ukraine, along with tariffs and trade, was set to be top ofmind, took place just a day after Trump held a more than one-hour-long phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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WASHINGTON — Former Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell warned in an interview with Spectrum News on Wednesday that the nation’s top disaster response agency will be “strained” amid efforts by President Donald Trump to scale back the federal government and potentially axe FEMA altogether.

2 days ago | spectrumnews1.com | Maddie Gannon

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday said President Donald Trump is “not delighted” by what he referred to as Elon Musk’s “180” on what has been labeled the “one, big, beautiful bill” containing the commander in chief’s legislative priorities. Johnson said he was going to attempt to make a direct appeal to Musk after the billionaire urged Republicans to "KILL the BILL" and replace it with new legislation.