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Brian Fitzpatrick

‘You’re all smirking out there’: Bipartisan congressional group joins forces to ban trading stocks by their colleagues

By Leah Askarinam, Kevin Freking, and others

A U.S. Capitol Police officer walks in front of the U.S. Capitol, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Government shutdown, CDC fight, Epstein probe, stock trading ban dominate agenda as Congress returns from recess

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, and others

Big Bird

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with deep ties to Big Bird and Mister Rogers, is going extinct

By Ted Anthony, Kevin Freking, and others

President Donald Trump holds his signed signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Washington, as House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., left, watches and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., takes a photo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Budget office confirms that Trump’s tax law will add $3.4 trillion to deficits

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP bill cutting $9 billion in approved funding includes full amount public broadcasting was to receive for next 2 years

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Committee Chairwoman Sen. Susan Collins

Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts—but Republican senator says ‘nobody really knows what program reductions are in it’

By Kevin Freking, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others

Sen. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks after a policy luncheon on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Trump rattles Senate Republicans with ‘blank check’ request to cut $9 billion from budget—and no time to review details

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

John Thune

DOGE is on the Senate’s agenda, with the future of public broadcasting at stake

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks behind his security detail through a crowd of reporters as he tries to push President Donald Trump’s signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts across the finish line even as conservative and moderate GOP holdouts slow that effort, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP can’t pass Trump’s tax bill as holdouts on center and far-right push back in late-night session

By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, and others

File – (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Overnight Senate voting on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ pushed off after early vote barely passes

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., departs following a classified briefing on President Donald Trump’s directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

After a dramatic vote, the Senate pushes ahead on Trump’s tax break and spending cut plan

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., arrives for a closed-door Republican meeting to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate eyes key vote on Trump’s tax bill, while Musk calls it ‘utterly insane and destructive’

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

U.S. President Donald Trump

Trump says ‘NO ONE GOES ON VACATION’ until the big, beautiful bill is done, but not all GOP lawmakers are on board

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, arrives for a hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on his budget requests for fiscal year 2026, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP wants deeper Medicaid cuts to offset tax breaks in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., departs after President Donald Trump signed a bill blocking California’s rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, at an event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House barely approves DOGE cuts of $9.4 billion in funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press