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• Republicans unveil measure eliminating taxes on tips after Trump proposal

  18-06-2024 21:15 via thehill.com
  
  Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Thomas Massie (Ky.) introduced a bill aimed at eliminating taxes on tips after former President Trump said that it would be the “first thing” he does if reelected.The legislation, titled “Tax Free Tips Act of 2024,” aims to eliminate federal income and employment taxes on service workers’ tips.“As the cost of living continues to rise, the hardworking men and women of the service industry, many of whom may be working a sec
  
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• NC Republican's bill cancels House recess if spending bills haven't passed

  26-06-2024 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would keep the House working in August it fails to pass a complete slate of 12 appropriations bills.The “Do Our Job Act” would cancel the August recess — the longest recess of the year — unless all the bills are passed. “The American people don't go home before their job is done, so why should Congress?” Edwards said in remarks from the floor on Wednesday. “In the nearly five decades th
  
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• Watch live: Johnson leads panel discussion on Title IX, women’s sports

  26-06-2024 22:26 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is leading a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon regarding Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex by educational institutions that receive federal funding.Title IX has been credited with opening opportunities for women to participate in athletic programs that were once heavily biased in favor of men. Some conservatives argue that allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports in effect reintroduces discrimination against cisgender wome
  
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• Johnson says Biden's criticism of Israel undermining hostage talks

  26-06-2024 21:48 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) said President Biden’s policies toward Israel, and criticism of its military operations, are harming efforts to secure the release of Americans held hostage by Hamas, in a letter to the White House on Wednesday.
  “The failure to resolutely support Israel in its military objectives to eliminate Hamas has made it harder to help facilitate the release of those being detained, including American hostages that Hamas brutally kidnapped on October 7, 2023,&r
  
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• Bowman ouster underscores political danger for progressives

  26-06-2024 21:45 via thehill.com
  
  House progressives are facing the biggest threat to their power in years after Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s (D-N.Y.) ouster in New York.Bowman, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, became the first “squad” member to lose reelection after he was defeated by moderate George Latimer in a race that was defined by the inflamed intraparty tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.Members of the left are also staring down the possibility of a second major loss later when Rep.
  
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• Rep. Loudermilk files legal brief supporting Bannon’s Supreme Court appeal

  26-06-2024 21:44 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), in conjunction with the Trump-aligned America First Legal, filed an amicus brief on Wednesday in support of Steve Bannon's Supreme Court emergency appeal.It is the latest show of support for Bannon from top House Republicans as he fights his contempt of Congress conviction, following top House GOP leaders saying that they will also file a legal brief in support of Bannon’s appeal efforts.Bannon has been ordered to report to prison on July 1&nbs
  
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• Paris Hilton pushes for child welfare reforms in emotional House testimony: 'I will not stop until America's youth are safe'

  26-06-2024 21:16 via thehill.com
  
  Paris Hilton says she will "not stop until America's youth are safe," delivering emotional testimony against residential treatment facility abuse at a Wednesday House Ways and Means hearing."While my experience was not through the foster care system, I know from personal experience the harm that is caused by being placed in youth residential treatment facilities," the 43-year-old reality TV star testified at the "Strengthening Child Welfare and Protecting America’s Children" hearing at the
  
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• Raskin prods GOP with 'Trump ❤️ Xi' signs at China hearing

  26-06-2024 19:45 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took a jab at former President Trump over his past remarks about Chinese President Xi Jinping, showing a "Trump ❤️ Xi" poster during a hearing on Wednesday.“The enemies of constitutional democracy and freedom seek to destabilize the American government. The tyrants of the world are targeting Joe Biden and promoting Donald Trump, who has fondly described President Xi as a ‘brilliant man,’ who has called Vladimir Putin a ‘genius&rsquo
  
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• Raskin prods GOP with signs linking Trump and Xi at China hearing

  26-06-2024 19:45 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took a jab at former President Trump over his past remarks about Chinese President Xi Jinping, showing a "Trump ❤️ Xi" poster during a hearing Wednesday.“The enemies of constitutional democracy and freedom seek to destabilize the American government. The tyrants of the world are targeting Joe Biden and promoting Donald Trump, who has fondly described President Xi as a ‘brilliant man,’ who has called Vladimir Putin a ‘genius’ a
  
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• Johnson: Trump shouldn't say election was stolen at debate

  26-06-2024 19:09 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said he thinks former President Trump should avoid calling the 2020 presidential election “stolen” during the debate on Thursday.In an interview slated to air Wednesday night on NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Leland Vittert asked Johnson how he would advise Trump to answer the question, “Who won the last election?” if he’s asked in the first presidential debate this Thursday.“Well, you know President Trump'
  
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• Troy Nehls no longer wearing combat badge rescinded by Army

  26-06-2024 18:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) is no longer wearing his Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) after the Army revised his military record to show he did not qualify for the badge he often wears on his lapel.When confronted about the CIB on Capitol Hill, Nehls told reporters they "disgust" him and called them "clowns" for what he said was an interest in reporting only on his badge."Now that I don't wear that, what are you going to talk to me about?" he said. "You're gonna be bored out of your mind."
  
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• Troy Nehls defends combat badge award: 'I don't have to justify myself'

  26-06-2024 18:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) is continuing to defend his Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), claiming that the "establishment" is trying to discredit him after the Army revised his military record to show he did not qualify for the badge he often wears on his lapel."I don't have to justify myself to you all, in any form or fashion," Nehls told reporters Wednesday on Capitol Hill. "I know the truth."Nehls says he was awarded the CIB while serving in the 101st Airborne Division in 2008. But the Army conf
  
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• Speaker Johnson says House will sue for Biden interview audio

  26-06-2024 17:34 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House Judiciary Committee plans to file a lawsuit to force Attorney General Merrick Garland to turn over audio tapes of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.The suit would be the latest effort to secure the tapes after the Justice Department informed Congress it would not be bringing criminal charges against Garland despite a House vote to hold him in contempt.“We are going to file suit next week against the Department of J
  
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• House progressive form caucus to reframe immigration debate

  26-06-2024 17:24 via thehill.com
  
  A group of House progressives is forming a caucus that aims to reframe the country’s immigration debate.The group consists of Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) and will be named the Congressional Caucus on Global Migration, NBC News first reported.The caucus is hoping to shift the conversation from the nation’s southern border and more toward fixing the causes of migration to the U.S.“Irregular and forced migration have reach
  
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• Cori Bush, challenger Wesley Bell locked in dead heat: Survey

  26-06-2024 17:10 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and her primary challenger Wesley Bell are locked in a dead heat in what is expected to be a competitive primary in August, according to a new poll. The survey, conducted by the polling firm The Mellman Group for the organization Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) showed Bell, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, ahead of Bush by 1 point — 43 percent to 42 percent — statistically tied. This is a notable improvement for Bell from January, when a pr
  
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• Biden administration touts lower costs for 64 prescription drugs

  26-06-2024 16:56 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration on Wednesday announced some Medicare beneficiaries will save money on 64 prescription drugs for the third quarter of this year as part of a program intended to rein in massive price hikes. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden and congressional Democrats ushered into law in 2022, requires drug companies to pay rebates to Medicare when prices increase faster than the rate of inflation for certain drugs. Health officials then adjust t
  
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• Speaker Johnson to deliver major foreign policy speech ahead of NATO summit

  26-06-2024 16:34 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will lay out his foreign policy agenda in a speech at a leading conservative think-tank in Washington D.C. on July 8, one day before the start of the NATO summit hosted by President Biden.Johnson will deliver remarks at the Hudson Institute, a prominent Washington think-tank that has become a home for former Trump administration senior officials who tend to buck the former president’s antagonism toward allies and support foreign military aid, in particula
  
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• Border encounters down more than 40 percent after Biden asylum order

  26-06-2024 14:08 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration announced Wednesday that border encounters with migrants are down 40 percent three weeks after President Biden’s order halting asylum processing.The Border Patrol’s seven-day encourage average is down to under 2,400 encounters per day, which is 40 percent less than before the asylum restrictions were announced on June 4 and the lowest level of encounters since Jan. 17, 2021, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The decrease is a political bo
  
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• Trump, Biden contrasts on Ukraine, Israel to take center stage

  26-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The presidential debate Thursday will set out clear differences over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, with President Biden’s pitch for unity among traditional allies expected to contrast with former President Trump’s tough talk and transactional foreign policy. And while Ukraine and Israel may not be the top priorities for U.S. voters according to polls, what the two candidates say could matter in a tight election race, especially as Trump seeks to make the case for change and Bide
  
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• Biden administration announces $1.8B for infrastructure projects

  26-06-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it has awarded $1.8 billion in grants for 148 infrastructure projects across the U.S.The grants come from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, which was expanded due to funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The total amount of grants for these types of projects from the Biden administration reached 550 total with the announcement.The infrastructure law, which is one of President Biden
  
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• Trump, progressives suffer a rough night: 5 takeaways from Tuesday's primaries

  26-06-2024 05:51 via thehill.com
  
  Tuesday’s contests in Colorado, New York, South Carolina and Utah saw the first incumbent House Democrat to lose in a primary this cycle, along with several losses for Trump-endorsed candidates. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party suffered a major blow when Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) lost to Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a moderate, in one of the most tumultuous primaries so far. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s near-perfect endorsement track record this cycle
  
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• Phelps, Schmitt plead Congress to crack down on doping ahead of Olympics

  26-06-2024 05:51 via thehill.com
  
  Star Olympian swimmers Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt took to Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to crack down on doping ahead of the Olympics.Alongside Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the Olympians made the case for why and how the government could sanction the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for its alleged failure to enforce anti-doping rules. Following reports, WADA confirmed in April that 23 swimmers on the Chinese team tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ), a
  
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• House Republican who got in shouting match with Bowman gloats over ouster

  26-06-2024 05:24 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted online gloating after Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) lost his bid for reelection.“I’m going to miss our informal chitchats in the hallways,” Massie posted on social media platform X.Massie was poking fun at Bowman, who lost Tuesday evening against George Latimer in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District.In his post, Massie included a video of Bowman and him in a 2023 shouting match over gun control. The exchange cam
  
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• Republican Jeff Hurd beats election denier boosted by Democrats in race for Boebert seat

  26-06-2024 04:02 via thehill.com
  
  Establishment-backed Republican candidate Jeff Hurd has won his GOP primary for Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) seat in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Hurd, an attorney in Grand Junction, won a competitive Republican contest over candidates including former state Rep. Ron Hanks (R), who had been elevated by Democrats who saw him as the weaker opponent in November.
  Hurd, who enjoyed the backing of prominent Republicans in t
  
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• Former CNN personality John Avlon wins Democratic primary in New York

  26-06-2024 03:51 via thehill.com
  
  Former CNN anchor John Avlon has won the Democratic nomination for the seat representing New York’s 1st Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ projects. Avlon defeated Nancy Goroff, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stony Brook University, to win the nomination to face Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.). Goroff was the Democratic nominee for the seat in 2020, losing to then-Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) by about 10 points. Democrats will target the district in November as part of the part
  
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• Trump-backed Colorado GOP chair loses House primary

  26-06-2024 03:44 via thehill.com
  
  Republican candidate Jeff Crank has won the GOP primary for retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn’s (R-Colo.) seat, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ, dealing a blow to Donald Trump.Crank, an official at the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity who enjoyed the endorsements of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), defeated state GOP chair Dave Williams in the Republican primary for Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. Williams had been endorsed
  
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• Bowman loses New York primary in blow to progressives

  26-06-2024 03:22 via thehill.com
  
  George Latimer has unseated Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ projects, delivering a stinging blow to progressives in what has been the party's most divisive primary of the cycle.Latimer, a Westchester County executive, defeated Bowman in a fierce contest that became a proxy battle between differing ideological factions of the Democratic Party, with the pivotal issue separating the candidates being their stance
  
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• House swears in Ohio Republican after close special election

  26-06-2024 03:16 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Michael Rulli (R-Ohio) was sworn into the House on Tuesday, after he fended off a Democratic opponent in an unexpectedly close special election to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio).Rulli, who previously served in the Ohio state senate, bested Democrat Michael Kripchak to represent the Buckeye State’s 6th congressional district earlier this month in a race that was closer than expected after Democrats overperformed in the ruby-red area.Rulli beat Kripchak
  
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• Trump-backed candidate loses South Carolina runoff, handing win to McMaster

  26-06-2024 02:58 via thehill.com
  
  Republican nurse practitioner Sheri Biggs has won the GOP primary runoff for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ projects, in an unusual race that pitted Donald Trump against one of his top allies.Biggs beat Trump-endorsed Mark Burns in the one-on-one runoff after neither secured a majority of the vote in the initial, more crowded primary earlier this month. Her win is an upset, as Burns was the top vote-getter in the first round. 
  Biggs’s win
  
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• White House accuses Jordan of effort to 'harass and intimidate' Biden ghostwriter

  26-06-2024 00:35 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Tuesday accused House Judiciary Committee Republicans of working “to harass and intimidate a private citizen” after they scheduled a meeting to consider a contempt referral for President Biden’s ghostwriter.The House Judiciary Committee plans to meet Thursday to mark up a resolution to hold Mark Zwonitzer in contempt of Congress after he failed to turn over audio tapes and notes from his interviews with Biden.In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jord
  
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