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House Republicans Wednesday moved forward with a tax bill to cut billions of dollars in climate-related funding, reduce regulations, and prematurely phase out clean energy tax credits as part of President Trump’s, “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” The heart of the Republican budget legislation targets key climate and energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.Cuts would impact businesses and consumers, affecting renewable energy, manufacturing, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. Concurrently, House Republicans proposed streamlining permitting for fossil fuels, rescinding Clean Air Act pollution funding, and allocating $2 billion to the strategic petroleum reserve. The Inflation Reduction Act has led to $321 billion worth…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a pause to the enrollment of more low-income immigrants without legal status for state-funded health care benefits in 2026 as the state faces economic uncertainty. Newsom outlined his nearly $332 billion state spending plan on Wednesday, revealing that California is facing a $12 billion budget deficit. “California is under assault,” Newsom said. “We have a president that’s been reckless in terms of assaulting those growth engines.”The Democratic governor noted that the freeze does not mean California is backing away from its support for immigrants.”No state has done more than the state of California, no state will…

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson called the House budget plan a “sad joke.” He and other Senate Republicans are already raising questions about the legislation, even before the House finalizes their work. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images As House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., feverishly works to finalize the details of a massive package that includes major portions of President Trump’s agenda, many Senate Republicans are dismissing the legislation before it is even finished in the House. “Unfortunately, it’s a sad joke,” Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson said Wednesday “Wimpy,” and “anemic” were the words Sen.…

The Trump family’s $500 million luxury hotel project in Serbia, slated to be built on the site of a bombed-out Defense Ministry building, has run into an embarrassing complication. A key document the Serbian government has relied on to deliver this deal was forged, officials there said this week.Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, and his business partners plan to build a luxury residential and commercial complex on the site of the long-vacant compound that is slated to include a Trump International Hotel, the first in Europe.The head of the Serbian agency charged with protecting cultural monuments admitted to authorities that…

Unpacking the geopolitical significance of Trump’s embrace of Syria’s new president – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump stopped in Qatar on his Middle East trip where he embraced a former jihadist who now leads Syria. Will Toddman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins to discuss. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

The Big Picture / May 13, 2025 It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage. Ad Policy Rapper Amber Rose presides at the Republican National Convention.(Leon Neal / Getty) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “Culture Wars.” Paris—When you hear the word culture, what do you reach for? The Nazis, famously, reached for their guns—a response presumably based on the belief that there is something about art and culture that is intrinsically hostile to authoritarian values. But the myth that creativity is always on the side of progress—that artists must also…

It was May 2019 and national security officials were in the Situation Room discussing Iran when President Trump abruptly changed the subject. He wanted to talk about granting asylum and citizenship to white South African farmers.Mr. Trump had floated the idea before, claiming that the farmers were a persecuted minority group being displaced from their land, according to John R. Bolton, his national security adviser at the time, who was at the meeting.Mr. Bolton said he thought little of Mr. Trump’s wish. The president had embraced fringe ideas and false narratives pushed by white Afrikaner activists, Mr. Bolton said.“It never…

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, allowing the case against her to continue.A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Tuesday confirmed the indictment to CBS News.The arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan escalated a clash between President Trump’s administration and local authorities over the Republican’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to make a national example of Dugan to chill judicial opposition to the crackdown.Dugan on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss the indictment…

House Republicans on Wednesday pushed forward with major legislation to deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda, moving over the opposition of Democrats to advance significant cuts to taxes and Medicaid after slogging through all-night drafting sessions.The votes in two key committees, and a third that was expected later Wednesday, were a crucial step for what Mr. Trump has labeled the “big beautiful bill” that Republicans hope to push through the House by the end of next week. The approvals sent the main pieces of the legislation to the full House, where G.O.P. leaders were racing to pass it before a Memorial…

A Las Vegas man who made a series of antisemitic death threats against Senator Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat who is Jewish, and also threatened her family and that of another senator was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly four years in prison, federal prosecutors said.The man, John Anthony Miller, 44, left numerous violent and ranting voice mail messages on Ms. Rosen’s office phone between Oct. 11 and Oct. 25, 2023, in which he threatened to “finish what Hitler started” and suggested that she was complicit in the deaths of Palestinians, prosectors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Nevada charged in…