Congress, Trump and Epstein
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Quietly tucked inside Republicans’ funding deal to end the government shutdown is a provision wiping the congressional Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard, effectively forgiving nearly $3.4 trillion in deficits.
In the government shutdown deal, Congress closed a loophole that allowed a Delta-8 THC market to explode in Indiana. What now?
The group told Congress to “remember that your primary duty is to your constituents” when voting on releasing his case files.
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Congress to hold hearing on member stock trading amid Pelosi’s reported $130 million windfall
Recent reporting from the New York Post showed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband, Paul Pelosi, profited roughly $130 million over the course of her nearly four decades in Congress. While Pelosi has announced her plans to retire from her seat, there are a number of members who actively trade stocks and currencies.
Nearly 4 in 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives did not take their pay during the government shutdown.
Few of the divides that fueled the 43-day shutdown have been resolved, and a fractured Congress is on the clock to find a budgetary solution.
President Trump is going to need Congress to back his plan to issue $2,000 tariff dividend checks to Americans, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "We need legislation for that," Bessent told Fox's Sunday Morning Futures.
Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein urged Congress to compel the Justice Department to release all of the files on the accused sex trafficker, whose powerful friends included President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump’s push to send a tariff rebate check to Americans would take an act of Congress, his top economic advisers acknowledge. Support among Republicans on Capitol Hill is lukewarm, at best.
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona waited 50 days before she was officially sworn in as the newest member of Congress — and she told CBS News "the emotions run the gamut of frustration, anger,