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WASHINGTON — As Senate Republican leaders push to a massive bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda by July 4, they are juggling a host of competing demands. Some senators are genuine threats to vote against the legislation, while others are expected to support it in the end after using their demands to shape it. Several of them have complicated political considerations. The Republicans who are speaking out most loudly point to a variety of ways the House-passed bill may change in the Senate, as party leaders seek to ease enough of their concerns.With all Democrats expected to vote against the…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will not be calling billionaire Elon Musk on Friday after their feud exploded into public, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said. “There are no plans for that today,” Wiles told NBC News when asked about reporting by Politico that White House aides scheduled a call Friday with the billionaire Tesla CEO to try to patch things up between the two men.Trump is “not interested” in a call, a senior White House official told NBC News. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump is focused on the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the GOP…

“I think the American public is looking at that, is saying, ‘I want my kids to go to college and be safe. They shouldn’t have to worry going from class. That’s not why — that is not why I sent them to campus,’” the education secretary added.McMahon also said that any foreign students arrested for violence or for antisemitism will have the chance to prove whether the detention is “unjust.” “If there’s a false arrest made, and that person shows that, that that was an unjust [arrest] and that person is released, OK,” she said. “But how many others are…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security Administration data.The conservative-majority court, with its three liberal justices objecting, granted an emergency application filed by the Trump administration asking the justices to lift an injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland.The unsigned order said that members of the DOGE team assigned to the Social Security Administration should have “access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work.”Follow live politics coverage hereLiberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissenting opinion questioning…

President Donald Trump’s second election win was different from his first in one big, important way: He won the popular vote, just the second time in the last two decades that Republicans had done so.And in the time between those two victories, from 2004 to 2024, there have been dramatic shifts in the nation’s politics along geographic, racial, educational and economic lines. Trump is operating in a very different Republican Party than George W. Bush was 20 years earlier. A look at where the vote has shifted most in that time tells an eye-catching story.Over the last 20 years, the…

Vance, Wiles and others have looked for job candidates in some of the traditional places, including inside the White House and on Capitol Hill, according to the second former U.S. official, a defense official and a congressional aide.Some candidates have been judged politically problematic, the former U.S. official and others familiar with the process said. For example, the White House personnel office has disqualified some for not being MAGA enough, according to the former U.S. official and a current U.S. official familiar with the process.In addition to trying to assist him with hiring, the White House has taken multiple other steps to help…

President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has met a groundswell of opposition in Los Angeles, the country’s second-largest city. At least 56 people have been arrested so far in massive protests against the administration’s immigration raids in the city Friday. The demonstrations have spilled over onto one of the region’s largest freeways, and federal authorities are facing criticism after they arrested, and apparently injured, a prominent labor leader. In response, the White House has threatened to arrest California’s governor and mobilized Marines to support National Guard troops in defending federal property — even though state officials say they don’t want the…

WASHINGTON — Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said Monday that he will resign from Congress after it passes a massive policy bill to advance President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.“It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up,” Green said in a statement, adding that he notified Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that he would vacate his seat after the House’s next vote on the legislative package that’s currently in the Senate.Once Green’s resignation takes effect, the House will have 219 Republicans…

New Jersey voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday to pick nominees for this year’s race for governor, in the first high-profile primaries for both parties since the 2024 election. New Jersey is one of two states with a gubernatorial race this year, along with Virginia. And both contests will be closely watched as early indicators of how voters are responding to President Donald Trump’s second term. Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy cannot run for re-election due to term limits, so there are contested races for both parties’ nominations. Candidates and groups have spent $85 million on ads…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s move to send National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles amid unrest over his immigration policies has given new weight to a lingering question: How far can a president go in using the military to quell domestic disturbances?For now, the military has a limited role in Los Angeles, at least on paper, focused on protecting federal buildings and activities. But that hasn’t stopped California’s Democratic leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, from vehemently objecting to Trump’s actions.Trump has not taken the more drastic step of invoking the Insurrection Act, the name given to a series…