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The Associated Press reports: House Republicans want to set aside up to $5 billion a year for scholarships to help families send their children to private and religious schools, an unprecedented effort to use public money to pay for private education. The proposal, part of a budget reconciliation bill released Monday, would advance President Donald Trump’s agenda of establishing “universal …

The Hill reports: House Republicans are moving forward with plans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $4 trillion as part of a larger plan to advance President Trump’s tax agenda. The proposal, which was included in legislative text unveiled by the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday, is in line with House instructions outlined in a blueprint adopted …

The Hill reports: A Republican tax bill released late Sunday seeks to block states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) models for the next 10 years. The bill text from the House Energy and Commerce Committee would bar states from enforcing laws or regulations governing AI models, AI systems or automated decision systems. The bill, which comes as Republicans gear up …

The Associated Press reports: House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks. Tallying hundreds of pages, the legislation is touching off the biggest political fight over health care since Republicans tried to …

CNN reports: After months of contending with the Trump administration’s multi-pronged effort to downsize the federal workforce, government employees are now facing the possibility of another major change that could push even more of them out the door. House Republicans are looking to make several big adjustments to federal workers’ retirement benefits to help pay for the party’s sweeping tax …

The Guardian reports: The former special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt is scheduled to appear before the Republican-led House judiciary committee next week as it attempts to find instances of politicization in the federal criminal cases brought against Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the matter. Bratt’s appearance is the first known instance of a special counsel prosecutor being …

Canada’s CTV News reports: U.S. lawmakers are proposing a bill that would allow some Canadian snowbirds to stay in the United States longer, in hopes of rebuilding cross-border tourism and supporting local economies. The Canadian Snowbird Visa Act proposes to extend the length of time eligible Canadian citizens aged 50 and over could visit the U.S. without a visa to …

Via press release: Today, Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) introduced legislation to show Americans exactly how much of a dent the ‘Trump Tariffs’ are putting in their wallets. The Truth in Tariffs Act requires large retailers to clearly display the portion of an item’s price attributable to tariffs. At a time of increasing economic chaos generated solely by President Trump, this …

CNN reports: A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme Court, repeatedly rejected maps with just one such district. With the finding, the court said it would consider whether to put Alabama under a Voting Rights Act provision …

Axios reports: The House voted Thursday to formalize President Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” It’s the first time the House has voted to codify one of the president’s executive orders into federal law, though it’s unclear if the Senate will take it up. The bill passed 211-206, with Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) …

“All the narratives are wearing off. Vietnam was a pointless war and we lost. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Afghanistan was a waste. And we gained nothing from any of those wars. “Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons and the 19 terrorists from 9/11 were all Saudis. Did we go to war with them? Nope. North Korea …

“The last couple of years have been some of the bloodiest ever reported. You’ll see actually in a lot of these tourist destinations, you know, young people. Specifically if you have kids, don’t pay for your college kids to go down to Mexico to party for Spring Break, okay? “That’s probably the worst thing that you can do. A little …

Politico reports: The House Natural Resources Committee approved its portion of the GOP’s party-line megabill shortly after midnight Wednesday, advancing provisions Republicans say would raise more than $18 billion by mandating a sharp increase in oil, gas, coal and mineral leases on public lands and waters while also reducing royalty rates for producers. In a late-night twist, Republicans also pushed …

Fox News reports: A scheduled vote on making President Donald Trump’s Gulf of America name change permanent is causing some heartburn within the House GOP conference. Multiple House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital said they were frustrated by House GOP leaders’ decision to spend time voting on what they saw as a largely symbolic gesture. “This is a …

The Hill reports: Several House Democrats walked out of a hearing on cryptocurrency legislation Tuesday, after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) objected over concerns about President Trump’s recent ventures in the digital asset industry. Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, sought to block the joint hearing between the panel and the House Agriculture Committee with her objection, …

Politico reports: House Republicans are preparing one of the largest overhauls to the country’s largest anti-hunger programs in decades, with a plan to limit future increases to benefits, implement new work requirements and push costs to states in a move that risks millions of low-income Americans being removed from the program. The Agriculture bill has faced delays since last recess …

“For the last 26 years, I have had the distinct honor and privilege of representing the 9th Congressional District of Illinois, my lifelong home and the best district in the nation. Today, it is with profound gratitude and the utmost appreciation for my constituents that I announce my decision not to seek reelection at the end of my current term. …

The Hill reports: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said in a Fox News interview Sunday that she’s “strongly considering” a run for New York governor in 2026, after her nomination to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations fell through earlier this year. “Absolutely, I am strongly considering, because look at the crises that Kathy Hochul and single-party Democrat rule have …

“I think some of these people should not be in Congress. I think they’re a disgrace. I think some of them shouldn’t be Americans. I don’t think they love our country. And I’m not gonna be afraid to call them out and go right at them because I think they’re bad people. And particularly people like Rashida Tlaib. She’s just …

NOTUS reports: Under “intense enemy fire” in Iraq in 2003, Rep. Cory Mills rushed to the aid of two soldiers who had been struck, applied emergency life-saving care at the “great risk to his own life,” helped evacuate them and saved their lives, according to the document that recommended the Florida lawmaker for a Bronze Star. Mills was awarded the …