Sahil Kapur
Senior National Political Reporter at NBC News
@NBCNews Senior National Political Reporter covering Capitol Hill and the 2024 presidential election. 🏛️🗳️ Part-time Formula 1 reporter. 🏎️
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6 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Sahil Kapur
WASHINGTON — A controversial deportation case has opened up a rift within the Democratic Party over how aggressively to go after President Donald Trump on an issue that has been one of his biggest political strengths. Some members of the party are leaning heavily into Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation to El Salvador without due process, accusing Trump of defying a court order.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Sahil Kapur |Peter Nicholas
WASHINGTON — Republicans are discussing an idea that has long been anathema within the party: a tax hike on the wealthy. In a twist, members of the GOP are debating whether to allow tax rates to go up on top earners when major parts of the 2017 tax law expire at the end of this year as part of a massive bill to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Sahil Kapur
Sahil KapurWed, April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC6 min readWASHINGTON — Republicans are discussing an idea that has long been anathema within the party: a tax hike on the wealthy. In a twist, members of the GOP are debating whether to allow tax rates to go up on top earners when major parts of the 2017 tax law expire at the end of this year as part of a massive bill to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Sahil Kapur |Melanie Zanona |Kyle Stewart
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are barreling forward with plans to vote on a new budget blueprint Wednesday to begin work on President Donald Trump's sweeping legislative agenda even as a key bloc of hardline conservatives remain opposed to the plan. It's far from clear whether Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will be able to corral enough votes for the Senate-approved budget resolution in the narrowly divided House, even as President Donald Trump has dialed up the pressure on GOP lawmakers.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Sahil Kapur
Sahil KapurUpdated Wed, April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM UTC5 min readWASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are barreling forward with plans to vote on a new budget blueprint Wednesday to begin work on President Donald Trump's sweeping legislative agenda even as a key bloc of hard-line conservatives remain opposed to the plan.
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In the last few weeks, the Freedom Caucus has supported a • CR to keep government open • House budget with a $4 trillion debt limit hike • Senate budget with cuts they slam as woefully insufficient Our story on how Trump 2.0 has defanged the HFC: https://t.co/MUXgDRSyoH
In an era of narrow margins (which both parties expect to continue in the coming years), every vote can carry massive policy consequences.
Another vote that would have failed if Democrats had been at full strength. Two Democrats died earlier this year, both members in their 70s who ran last year despite cancer diagnoses. A third, Don Norcross, is in the ICU in New Jersey.
216-214. One Democratic absence (Norcross) and two Dem vacancies due to deaths (Turner and Grijalva) proved decisive on a budget that unlocks the door for Republicans to make trillions in tax/spending changes.
BREAKING: House Republicans adopt budget plan needed to advance President Trump’s agenda, beating back a conservative rebellion that had threatened to sink the measure just a day earlier. https://t.co/nR3vosuJSV