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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters about his push for a House-Senate compromise budget resolution to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda, even with opposition from hard-line conservative Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump told Republicans to ‘Close your eyes and get there’ on his budget bill but holdouts forced House Speaker to halt the vote

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas

‘I’m tired of the fake math in the swamp’: Conservative House Republicans are stalling action on Trump’s bill of tax breaks and spending reductions

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP approves framework for Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts, but 2 Republicans dissent — ‘Something’s fishy’

By Lisa Mascaro, Leah Askarinam, and others

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP advance Trump’s ‘big’ bill of tax breaks and spending cuts as tariffs put economy on edge

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

FILE – Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., testifies during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on her pending confirmation to be the United Nations Ambassador, on Capitol Hill, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Trump tells Rep. Elise Stefanik she has to stay in Congress instead of becoming UN ambassador because the GOP House margin is so thin

By Farnoush Amiri, Lisa Mascaro, and others

Elon Musk leaves after meeting with Senate Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Elon Musk tells Republican lawmakers he’s not to blame for federal firings

By Lisa Mascaro, Chris Megerian, and others

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, is greeted by President Donald Trump, center, as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump pauses U.S. military aid to Ukraine as he pressures Zelensky to move to quick end of war

By Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller, and others

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

What’s next for Trump budget after House GOP approves tax breaks and spending cuts blueprint: ‘Nothing about this is going to be easy’

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, of La., with House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain, from left, Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C. and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, of La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House GOP pushes through budget blueprint in step toward Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’, with $4.5 billion in tax breaks and $2 billion in spending cuts

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters after meeting with Vice President JD Vance and fellow Republicans to discuss President Donald Trump’s agenda at a luncheon, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate stays up all night to push $340 billion GOP package for Trump’s mass deportations and security measures

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Elon Musk speaks next to Donald Trump in the oval office

One by one, Republicans are speaking up against billionaire Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn DOGE tactics

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Donald Trump and Elon Musk

‘An erosion of our democracy’: Critics say Trump and Musk are dismantling government in under 30 days

By The Associated Press and Lisa Mascaro

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Defense secretary, gives a thumbs up while leaving after his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate confirms Hegseth as defense secretary after VP Vance casts tie-breaking vote to overcome 3 GOP dissenters

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others

President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says he may withhold federal wildfire disaster aid for Los Angeles if California doesn’t change water policies

By Lisa Mascaro, Chris Megerian, and others

Supporters of President Donald Trump stand with their flags in support of people convicted for their part in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol at the DC Central Detention Facility in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

D.C. federal court judges slam Trump’s blanket clemency for Jan. 6 rioters: ‘It cannot whitewash the…terror that the mob left in its wake’

By Michael Kunzelman, Lisa Mascaro, and others