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At the RNC in Milwaukee last year, I sent an urgent warning about an innocent enough sounding proposal — "Project 2025." It's ...

As the United States moves forward with implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislative package – dubbed the “One ...

A Massachusetts district judge Friday extended a temporary restraining order, temporarily blocking a new provision of the Reconciliation Act that sought to ...

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Photo: President Donald Trump signs his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House, Friday, July 4, ...

Last week, when President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) into law, he said it would help to bring ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has sparked alarm in New York with warnings of devastating impacts on health insurance, food ...

Rep. Val Hoyle, a Democrat from Springfield, said the bill will reduce the state’s access to healthcare and imperil Oregon’s ...

From health insurance to immigration enforcement and higher ed taxes, the WBUR newsroom took a look at how some key ...

Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is an ugly policy that will punish the poorest, worsen inequality, and blow up the national debt.

One of the biggest spending items in the Republican budget bill has hardly gotten any attention: $170 billion for an unprecedented crackdown on immigration. By some calculations, it would make the ann ...