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Senate passes Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill as Vance breaks 50-50 tie

Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session. The outcome capped an unusually tense weekend of work at the Capitol, the president’s signature legislative priority teetering on the edge of approval or collapse. In the end that tally was 50-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. Three Republican senators — Thom Tillis of […]

todayJuly 1, 2025

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NAACP breaks 116-year tradition by not inviting Trump to national convention: ‘Waste of our time’

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, more commonly known as the NAACP, has broken a 116-year tradition in an unprecedented move against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. The nation’s oldest civil rights organization announced on Monday it has decided not to invite Trump to its annual convention for the first time since its founding. “For 116 years, the NAACP has invited the sitting president of the United States to address the NAACP National Convention — […]

todayJune 16, 2025

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Carla Hayden, historic former Librarian of Congress, breaks silence after White House abruptly fired her

Dr. Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress, is breaking her silence about her unceremonious firing by the Trump administration after serving on the job for nearly a decade. In an upcoming interview on “CBS Sunday,” Hayden, the first woman and Black woman to hold the position, reveals that she received no heads-up from the White House before her abrupt termination on May 8. “I’ve received no communication directly, except for that one email,” said Hayden of the communication she […]

todayJune 6, 2025

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House Republicans pass Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval Thursday. With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that’s central to the GOP agenda. The House launched debate before midnight and by dawn the vote was called, 215-214, with Democrats staunchly opposed. It next goes to the Senate. “To put it […]

todayMay 22, 2025

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Booker breaks Senate floor speech record held by segregationist who opposed Black civil rights

U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., broke the record for the longest speech given on the Senate floor on Tuesday as he protested the first 71 days of President Donald Trump’s administration. Booker officially broke the record at 7:19 p.m. Ironically, Booker surpassed the previous record — 24 hours and 18 minutes — held by Sen. Strom Thurmond, a segregationist who used the Senate procedure known as a filibuster in an effort to block the passage of landmark civil rights legislation […]

todayApril 1, 2025

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President Biden breaks record for most Black judges confirmed to federal bench

As President Joe Biden enters the final days of his presidency, he has another historic milestone to add to his resume. The Senate confirmed Judge Benjamin Cheeks to the Southern District of California, marking the 63rd lifetime Black judicial confirmation during his administration. Biden has now confirmed more Black judges to the federal bench than any president in U.S. history, including those who served two terms.  “[President Biden] making history with the 63rd Black judge shows that we have representation […]

todayDecember 23, 2024

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Watch: April Ryan breaks down her thoughts on Harris’ FOX interview

During her FOX News interview on Wednesday, Kamala Harris said that, if elected as the 47th president of the United States, her presidency “will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.” The interview, contentious in nature, struck a different tone from Harris than previous interviews as the Democratic presidential nominee. The vice president’s direct answer to FOX’s Bret Baier was whether she would simply continue governing as President Biden has for the past three and half years. “Let me […]

todayOctober 18, 2024

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Watch: Democratic pollster Terrance Woodbury breaks down Harris plan for economy

This week, “The Hill with April Ryan” catches up with Democratic pollster Terrance Woodbury, founder of the polling firm HIT Strategies and a surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.  Woodbury tells theGrio that the economy is the number one issue for American voters. Among Black voters, in particular, Woodbury says the general sentiment is that “costs are too damn high.”   The numbers cruncher clarifies that Black Americans’ concerns about the economy go beyond inflation. People want to “reduce costs” […]

todayOctober 6, 2024

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Watch: DNC co-chair breaks down what to expect with Harris nomination

The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago on Aug. 19, where the DNC will coronate presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. For this week’s “The Hill with April Ryan,” Leah Daughtry, co-chair of the DNC rules committee, breaks down what we should expect during the four-day convention as momentum builds for Harris‘s bid for the Oval Office. Before President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, he secured more than 3,900 delegates. Within days, Harris earned enough of […]

todayJuly 29, 2024