Riley Beggin
Congress and Campaigns Reporter at USA Today
Covering Congress for @usatoday // rmbeggin (at) https://t.co/reJkUqShMB
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Sudiksha Kochi |Riley Beggin
WASHINGTON – The fury radiating off of Congressional Democrats is palpable. Hours after Alex Padilla, the senior U.S. senator in California, was forcibly removed from a press briefing with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, House Democrats roamed the Capitol seeking an audience with GOP leadership.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Bart Jansen |Riley Beggin
• Republicans begin debate in the narrowly divided Senate with factions seeking to increase spending cuts or curbing tax breaks, which threaten the compromise needed for approval back in the House. • Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk complicated the debate by urging lawmakers to kill the bill. • Congressional leaders insist approval is still possible despite the fissures in the narrow Republican majorities in each chamber and the unified opposition of Democrats.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Riley Beggin |Sudiksha Kochi
WASHINGTON – Republicans in Congress could only cringe as a feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk spilled into the public eye, with their sweeping tax legislation at the center of it. "I've had a lot of love and respect for you for what you've done for this country over the last several months, but you've lost your damn mind," Trump ally Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, said to Musk.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Riley Beggin |Francesca Chambers
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans are likely to tweak a state and local tax deduction that was crucial to President Donald Trump's sweeping tax bill passing the House, setting up a potential showdown with the lower chamber. It's the first significant change Senate Republicans have signaled they will make to the massive bill, which would extend 2017 income tax cuts, implement new tax cuts for tipped wages and overtime, and put more money toward border security spending.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Riley Beggin
WASHINGTON – Elon Musk is launching an all-out attack on President Donald Trump's sweeping tax and policy bill, urging his 220 million-plus followers on social media to lobby their lawmakers and "KILL the BILL." Musk, who formally left his job working for Trump on May 30, has been publicly lambasting the Republican president's signature legislation that would extend 2017 income tax cuts and implement new tax cuts on tipped wages and overtime that were central promises from his successful 2024...
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'You've lost your damn mind': Republicans cringe at feud between Trump and Musk https://t.co/nfhw13bh88
Mike Johnson defending himself amid the Trump-Musk fallout over the GOP bill
The Mike Johnson of 2023 is the SAME Mike Johnson who has always been a lifelong fiscal hawk - who now serves as Speaker and is implementing a multi-stage plan to get our country back to fiscal responsibility and extraordinary economic growth. It begins with the critically
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