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June 26, 2025
Robert McCoy
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is in Big Trouble
With a self-imposed deadline fast approaching, the GOP’s plan to slash health care funding to hand a massive tax cut to the rich has hit yet another snag.
May 23, 2025
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
GOP Senators are chipping away at the 60-vote threshold, marking one more step toward majority rule in the upper chamber.
August 9, 2022
Matt Ford
Don’t Be Fooled by the Inflation Reduction Act’s Big Win, the Senate Still Sucks
The biggest takeaway from a long weekend of legislative action is that this is no way to run a country.
August 7, 2022
Grace Segers
The Inflation Reduction Act Passes After a Long and Exhausting Weekend in the U.S. Senate
The upper chamber's “vote-a-rama” may sound like a real fun way to spend a Saturday night, but guess what?
June 3, 2021
Alex Thomas
Elizabeth MacDonough Is the Most Quietly Consequential Person in Washington
The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.
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