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Bloomberg
14-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Senate Clears Way for GOP Spending Bill as Shutdown Threat Ebbs
By , Billy House, and Steven T. Dennis Save The Senate moved forward with a Republican spending plan in a crucial vote that effectively swept away the threat of a US government shutdown while exacerbating a furious struggle within the Democratic party over how to confront Donald Trump's audacious expansion of presidential power. The 62-38 vote Friday puts congressional Democrats on course to relinquish what some believed was their best hope of imposing any constraints on Trump and Elon Musk's mass firings of federal workers and wholesale elimination of federal agencies. Opponents will have to look instead to the courts.
Bloomberg
26-02-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump Stumbles as GOP Tax-Cut Plan Delayed Despite His Lobbying
By and Billy House Save Donald Trump stumbled in his drive to leverage unified Republican control of Washington to speed through his tax-and-spending agenda as the president's last-minute lobbying failed to overcome GOP resistance to a budget blueprint. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday delayed a vote on the budget he had announced for the evening in the face of continuing opposition and a clash among Republicans over the impact on the budget deficit and social safety net.
Bloomberg
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Trump Needs to Get Republicans Singing from Same Songbook
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation's capital. Today, congressional correspondent Billy House looks at what House Republicans, and the president, are trying to accomplish. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here. President Donald Trump has made pretty clear that he's not all that interested in the nitty-gritty of congressional legislative strategy.
