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Johnson, McConnell ask Harris to ‘stop escalating the threat environment’ after Trump fascist remarks
Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning “the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus” and said her words in recent days “seem to dare it to boil over.” “She must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,” Johnson and McConnell said in their statement…
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Senate Republican leaders are discussing a proposal to expand an enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) matching rate to five states, including Alaska and Hawaii, to get the parliamentarian to sign off the proposal, which could be critical to locking down Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) vote…
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Live updates: GOP stalls for time in vote-a-rama while awaiting key ruling on Trump megabill
The Senate is more than 10 hours into a vote-a-rama on the massive GOP policy legislation dubbed the “big, beautiful bill,” and Republicans are stalling for time awaiting a key ruling from the chamber’s parliamentarian. The Senate’s rules referee must make a critical decision on a provision that would exempt Alaska and Hawaii from cuts…
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Monday that President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a “moral obscenity.” “I think it’s a moral obscenity, and it is violence in the sense of what it will do to many families by denying them health care when they’re sick, by denying them food when their children are hungry…
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