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Live updates: More hurdles emerge for passing Trump's massive legislative package by July 4
The Senate faces mounting challenges as it seeks to meet a self-imposed July 4 deadline to get President Donald Trump's massive tax and immigration legislation to his desk. Among those obstacles: persistent doubts about proposed Medicaid cuts from some Republican members and adverse rulings from the Senate parliamentarian that have cut parts of the package. Plans to start voting Friday appear unlikely at this point. At the White House, Trump plans to host the foreign ministers of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The two African nations are set to sign a peace deal facilitated by the United States to help end decades-long fighting.
American cities have a serious problem.
The Trump administration, in an effort to encourage different communities to comply with a series of policy positions, is working to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding that cities across the country rely on.
Internal dissent is mounting among Republicans over how President Donald Trump's mammoth tax and immigration legislation would cut health-care funding, even as the GOP's self-imposed deadline nears.
The GOP has hopes to put the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a $3.3 trillion measure to extend tax cuts, add some new tax breaks, boost immigration enforcement, begin building Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile defense program and more — on the president's desk by Independence Day.
The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun restrictions by July 4, according to multiple people with knowledge of the efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that have not been made public.
Senators left a classified briefing about the impact of U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities split along party lines, with Republicans saying it reinforced their belief that the strikes were effective and some Democrats complaining that it did not fully answer their questions.
