President Donald Trump's tax-cut package cleared its final hurdle in the U.S. Congress on Thursday (July 3), as the Republican-controlled House of Representatives narrowly approved the massive bill and sent it to him to sign into law.
The 218-214 vote amounts to a significant victory for the Republican president that will fund his immigration crackdown, make his 2017 tax cuts permanent and deliver new tax breaks that he promised during his 2024 campaign.
It also cuts health and food safety net programs and zeroes out dozens of green energy incentives. It would add $3.4 trillion to the nation's $36.2 trillion debt, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Despite concerns over the 869-page bill's price tag and its hit to healthcare programs, Republicans largely lined up in support, with only two of the House's 220 Republicans voting against it. The bill has already cleared the Republican-controlled Senate by the narrowest possible margin.
Republicans said the legislation will lower taxes for Americans across the income spectrum and spur economic growth.
An intern for Rep. Ron Estes was killed in a Northwest D.C. shooting.
Eric Tarpinian-Jachym was shot and killed in Northwest D.C. on Monday night, Metropolitan Police and the Kansas Republican confirmed.
The Intern would have been a senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this fall.
The 21-year-old was a Granby, Mass., resident who joined Estes’ office earlier in June. Metropolitan Police said in a statement Wednesday that detectives believe he was not the intended target of the shooting.
Police responded to the sound of gunshots on the 1200 block of 7th Street Northwest just before 10:30 p.m. Monday night.
The founding fathers would not recognize the Democrat party's platform as a serious one. The same people who wrote the constitution would scoff at what the left passes off as a political ideology.
It's five hours and counting that House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York has held the floor as he speaks out against President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill. Republicans, up all night, are ready to vote on the package Thursday and send it to the White House. But Jeffries is seizing on a leader's prerogative for unlimited debate. GOP leaders were up all night and the president himself worked to persuade skeptical holdouts to drop their opposition. Jeffries is reading letter after letter from Americans writing about their reliance of the health care programs and their worries of devastating cuts.
U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continues to show surprising resilience despite uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% from 4.2% in May, the Labor Department said Thursday. Hiring rose modestly from a revised 144,000 in May and beat economists expectations of fewer than 118,000 new jobs and a rise in the unemployment rate.
The man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is due back in court after a week's delay. Prosecutors allege 57-year-old Vance Boelter carried out the June 14 attacks disguised as a police officer. Authorities say he also targeted other Democrats. Boelter's lawyer argued that he'd been sleep-deprived due to harsh jail conditions, and won a delay in proceedings last week. Boelter could face the federal death penalty, though no decision has been made. The attacks have been described as a political assassination and a threat to democracy.
Police and firefighters are responding reports of a shooting at a mall in Savannah, Georgia. Police say multiple people are injured and investigations are ongoing.
Stay with SNC for updates on this developing story.
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