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Speaker Johnson moves on Senate’s Trump budget bill as House GOP rebels threaten to defect
House Republican leaders are rallying GOP lawmakers around a plan to enact a broad swath of President Donald Trump’s agenda, after the legislation was passed by the Senate in the early hours of Saturday morning.
«More than a year ago, the House began discussing the components of a reconciliation package that will reduce the deficit, secure our border, keep taxes low for families and job creators, reestablish American energy dominance, restore peace through strength, and make government more efficient and accountable to the American people. We are now one step closer to achieving those goals,» Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his top lieutenants wrote to House Republicans.
«Today, the Senate passed its version of the budget resolution. Next week, the House will consider the Senate amendment.»
Congressional Republicans are pushing a conservative policy overhaul via the budget reconciliation process. Traditionally used when one party holds all three branches of government, reconciliation lowers the Senate’s threshold for passage on certain fiscal measures from 60 votes to 51.
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President Donald Trump helped get House Republicans’ budget bill over the line in February, and backed the Senate version this week (Getty Images)
As a result, it’s been used to pass sweeping policy changes in one or two massive pieces of legislation.
Senate Republicans passed a framework for a reconciliation bill just after 2 a.m. ET on Saturday, after hours of debate and votes on amendments to the measure.
It’s similar to the version House Republicans passed in late February; but mechanisms the Senate used to avoid factoring in the cost of extending Trump’s 2017-era tax cuts as well as a lower baseline for required federal spending cuts has some House conservatives warning they could oppose the bill.
The Senate’s version calls for at least $4 billion in spending cuts, while the House’s version mandates a floor of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion.
Both bills also include Trump priorities on border security, energy, and new tax policies like eliminating penalties on tipped and overtime wages.
«If the Senate’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ budget is put on the House floor, I will vote no,» Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote on X.
«In the classic ways of Washington, the Senate’s budget presents a fantastic top-line message – that we should return spending back to the pre-COVID trajectory (modified for higher interest, Medicare, and Social Security) of $6.5 Trillion, rather than the current trajectory of over $7 Trillion – but has ZERO enforcement to achieve it, and plenty of signals it is designed purposefully NOT to achieve it.»
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks during a news conference (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But House GOP leaders insist that the Senate’s passage of its framework simply allows the House to begin working on its version of the bill passed in February – and that it does not impede their process in any way.
«The Senate amendment as passed makes NO CHANGES to the House reconciliation instructions that we voted for just weeks ago. Although the Senate chose to take a different approach on its instructions, the amended resolution in NO WAY prevents us from achieving our goals in the final reconciliation bill,» the letter said.
«We have and will continue to make it clear in all discussions with the Senate and the White House that—in order to secure House passage—the final reconciliation bill must include historic spending reductions while protecting essential programs.»
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House GOP leaders have pointed out that passing a framework is just the first step in a long process, one that just lays out broad instructions for how money should be spent.
Now that similar frameworks have passed the House and Senate, the relevant congressional committees will work out how to achieve the final reconciliation policy goals under their given jurisdictions.
«We have made it clear the House will NOT accept nor participate in an ‘us versus them’ process resulting in a take it or leave it proposition from the Senate,» House leaders warned.
«Immediately following House adoption of the budget resolution, our House and Senate committees will begin preparing together their respective titles of the reconciliation bill to be marked up in the next work period.»
The letter reiterated Johnson’s earlier goal of having a bill on Trump’s desk by the end of May.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, called the Senate’s resolution «unserious and disappointing,» noting it only mandated $4 billion in «enforceable cuts.»
He vowed to work with congressional leaders to find the best path forward, however.
«I am committed to working with President Trump, House leadership, and my Senate counterparts to address these concerns and ensure the final reconciliation bill makes America safe, prosperous, and fiscally responsible again,» Arrington said.
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EPA scraps Biden coal restrictions as advocates say move will restore American dominance
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A leading domestic energy advocacy group praised EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s announcement that his agency would undo recent additions to the federal «mercury and air-toxics standards» (MATS) for coal-fired power plants.
Zeldin said removing the restrictions allows the already «robust» MATS standards to remain in effect, ensuring both public health and the health of America’s coal industry amid a push for U.S. energy dominance.
«The Biden-Harris Administration’s anti-coal regulations sought to regulate out of existence this vital sector of our energy economy. If implemented, these actions would have destroyed reliable American energy,» Zeldin said at the Mills Creek Power Plant in Kentucky, adding that protecting the environment and supporting industry and baseload power is not a «binary choice.»
In response, Power the Future founder Daniel Turner told Fox News Digital the move is a significant step toward revitalizing the American coal industry and, in turn, fueling economies in economically depressed industrial communities throughout Appalachia and beyond.
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«Since the war on coal, we have weakened our grid, driven electricity prices through the roof, outsourced major industries to Mexico and China, but most of all driven tens of thousands of Americans into ruin because of a globalist agenda,» Turner said Friday, adding that the costs of a crippled coal industry went far beyond shuttered infrastructure:
«The cruel Obama-led war on coal ruined numerous towns across rural America, drove families into poverty, caused alcoholism, opioid addiction, domestic violence, and suicide to skyrocket.»
«Power The Future started because of coal miners, the acceptable casualties in the globalist climate change agenda,» said Turner, whose group is based in coal-heavy Virginia.
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«Restoring America’s coal dominance is good for our national security and economy, and it restores the dignity of small-town coal workers whose labor is vital to America’s survival.»
Many of America’s poorest counties are in what were once very wealthy coal communities — including McDowell and Mingo counties in West Virginia and Bell, Letcher, McCreary, and Breathitt counties in Kentucky, where Vice President JD Vance’s family is from.
During much of the 20th century, McDowell County — and its seat, Welch — was the No. 1 coal-producing county in the U.S. and home to 100,000 people — a population boom some credit with spurring construction of what became the nation’s first parking deck, which is still standing today in Welch.
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Now, about one-quarter of McDowell residents live in poverty while the median income is around $30,000.
Turner alluded to those conditions in comments to Fox News Digital, saying people must «never forget or forgive the drivers of the war on coal for their cruel attacks on a vital industry found only in rural America.»
«[Anti-coal politicians] fly private jets to attend global climate summits while they orchestrated an evil attack on the coal miner making America weaker and China richer.»
Turner quipped that any «anti-coal activist» is invited to join him in visiting coal-producing communities but may be unhappy to get dirt on their clothing and find lodging not up to «Four Seasons» standards.
«We need coal. There is not one product around you right now that was not touched by coal, and to lower prices, bring market stability and ensure economic growth, we need to dominate the coal industry,» Turner said.
The Mill Creek power plant in Kentucky, where Lee Zeldin made his announcement, is seen. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
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«Sadly, the liberal elite who launched the war on coal are too ignorant or too indifferent to know this. The ignorant can be educated, and that’s what I try to do at Power The Future. But the indifferent must be defeated, as they are a threat to our liberty, property and prosperity. I will never stop until I defeat them all,» he said, calling President Donald Trump the «greatest coal president in history.»
Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy fired back at the policy change, telling the AP that «by weakening pollution limits and monitoring for brain-damaging mercury and other pollutants, they are actively undermining any attempt to make America — and our children — healthy.»
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Otro golpe para el ex príncipe Andrés: quieren eliminarlo de la línea de sucesión al trono británico por sus vínculos con Jeffrey Epstein
El ex príncipe Andrés será eliminado de la línea de sucesión al trono británico. Por ser el hijo de la reina Isabel ocupa el octavo lugar, tras haber sido segundo antes que nacieran los príncipes William, Harry y sus hijos. Downing St considerará introducir una ley para destituir al octavo en la sucesión al trono, una vez finalizada la investigación policial sobre el caso Epstein.
El primer ministro británico Sir Keir Starmer considerará aprobar una ley para destituir a Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor de la sucesión al trono. Cualquier cambio en la legislación se produciría una vez concluida la investigación policial sobre el ex príncipe caído en desgracia.
Esta histórica medida se produce tras el breve arresto de Mountbatten-Windsor el jueves, bajo sospecha de mala conducta en el ejercicio de un cargo público.
Mountbatten-Windsor ha sido despojado del título de príncipe, pero sigue siendo el octavo en la sucesión al trono, después de William, Harry y sus hijos.
El cambio requiere una ley del Parlamento. Downing Street consultará con los demás reinos de la Commonwealth antes de realizar cualquier cambio.
Todos los demás países donde Carlos III es rey, incluyendo Australia, Canadá y Nueva Zelanda, tendrían que aprobar la legislación para destituirlo.
El viernes, Andrew Bowie, secretario en la sombra para Escocia, declaró a GB News: «Creo que sería lo correcto. Por supuesto, si es declarado culpable de esto, creo que el Parlamento estaría en su derecho de actuar para eliminarlo de la línea de sucesión”.
«Pero, recordemos, todavía no ha sido declarado culpable de nada:aún no se le ha imputado ningún delito. Así que debemos dejar que la investigación policial siga su curso, y creo que todos deberíamos actuar en consecuencia», dijo.
Mountbatten-Windsor se convirtió en el primer miembro de la familia real en la historia moderna en ser arrestado el jueves, día que también coincidió con su 66° cumpleaños.
La policía allanó la residencia temporal del ex príncipe, Wood Farm, en Sandringham, a la hora del desayuno, antes de llevarlo a la comisaría de Aylsham, en Norfolk. Pasó casi 12 horas detenido antes de ser puesto en libertad bajo investigación.
Los correos electrónicos publicados como parte de los archivos de Epstein parecían demostrar que Mountbatten-Windsor filtró documentos confidenciales a Jeffrey Epstein mientras trabajaba como enviado comercial de Gran Bretaña, representando a la difunta reina Isabel II y al país en el extranjero.
Si el ex príncipe fuera declarado culpable de mala conducta en un cargo público, podría enfrentarse a la cárcel.
El viernes, la policía continuó registrando del Royal en Windsor, la antigua residencia del Sr. Mountbatten-Windsor, tras su liberación. Continuará investigando allí hasta el lunes.También ha comenzado a interrogar a los oficiales de la policía que lo custodiaran para ver si recuerdan hechos.
Por otra parte, la policía de West Yorkshire se convirtió en la décima fuerza policial en confirmar que estaba revisando material del tramo de archivos de Epstein, publicado por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos.
Un portavoz declaró que la fuerza policial estaba «evaluando los detalles de la información que se ha hecho pública para determinar cualquier posible vínculo con la zona de West Yorkshire».
El rey Eduardo VIII y sus descendientes fueron eliminados de la línea de sucesión cuando abdicó en 1936. El príncipe Michel de Kent también fue eliminado, en virtud de la Ley de Establecimiento de 1701, al contraer matrimonio con una católica en 1978. Sin embargo, fue restituido con la Ley de Sucesión a la Corona en 2013.
Este viernes, Sir Ed Davey, líder del Partido Liberal Demócrata, expresó su apoyo a la monarquía. Pero añadió: «Creo que deberíamos tener presentes a los sobrevivientes y víctimas de Epstein, que tienen que ver toda esta información y posiblemente revivir sus traumas. Es una situación bastante impactante. Dejemos que la policía haga su trabajo».
Se le preguntó a Sir Ed sobre las peticiones de los Demócratas Liberales en los últimos meses para que el ex príncipe comparezca ante el Parlamento para declarar ante los diputados y los pares.
Declaró a la BBC: «Creo que, en términos generales, de cara al futuro, necesitamos más transparencia. Y el Parlamento desempeña un papel fundamental».
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Omar calls GOP probe into husband’s $30M business surge a ‘political stunt’ as records deadline passes
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The office of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Friday called a GOP-led investigation into her family’s finances a «stunt,» one day after a House deadline for her husband to turn over records tied to his companies’ rapid growth.
The House Oversight Committee had set Feb. 19 as a deadline for Tim Mynett, Omar’s husband, to provide information about the sudden success of two of his companies to the House Oversight Committee.
«This is all a political stunt. These sham accusations were referred to the Ethics Committee, and our office has not received any follow-up because this is a baseless, headline-generating speculation and a politically targeted attack on the Congresswoman,» a spokesperson for Omar told Fox News Digital.
Omar’s office declined to say whether it had submitted the business records as requested by lawmakers.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with husband Tim Mynett during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
eStCru LLC, a winery, and Rose Lake Capital LLC, a consulting firm, both owned partially by Mynett, increased sharply in reported value between 2023 and 2024, drawing questions from lawmakers about the source of the pair’s wealth.
In just one year, the two companies added roughly $30 million in combined value.
The Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., asked Mynett to produce communications regarding the companies’ latest audits and with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), correspondence with any other federal agencies, and travel records to or from the United Arab Emirates, Somalia or Kenya.
Omar’s office called the probe a GOP-led distraction from other hot-topic issues.
«If Republicans were interested in real oversight, they would be looking at Trump and his family enriching their net worth by billions of dollars, as well as their connections to their pedophile friend, Jeffrey Epstein,» Omar’s spokesperson said.
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President Donald Trump pushed for a financial investigation into Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar in January. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
When asked if Omar and Mynett had turned in the requested documentation, a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital that the committee has referred the matter to the House Ethics Committee, the body tasked with investigating financial disclosure statements and member misconduct.
«Americans have concerns about Rep. Omar’s skyrocketing wealth while in public office. The House Oversight Committee initiated a probe into these concerns and has asked the House Ethics Committee to do its job and review this matter,» a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital.
In its letter to Mynett sent earlier this year, the Oversight Committee said it needed the business details to ensure Omar wasn’t being unduly influenced by her husband’s success.
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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., left, pictured alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., right. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
«Financial disclosure forms, filed by your wife, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, show eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC, which you hold ownership stakes in, went from being worth as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024,» the committee wrote.
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«Given that these companies do not publicly list their investors or where their money comes from, this sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife,» the Oversight Committee added.
The House Ethics Committee declined to comment on whether it would open a probe into Omar or her husband.
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