The tax bill is one leg of the Trump administration’s three-legged stool economic plan, built on tariffs, spending cuts and tax cuts. If any one element comes up short, the whole thing collapses.

Go back to [former President Bill] Clinton, [former President Barack] Obama, or Trump, to their actual allies in 1998, 2014, 2019. Leave Social Security, Medicare, and interest alone.

7:32 p.m. PDT, April 7, 2025 Trump fires senior US military official at NATO, Sen. Reed says From CNN's Piper Hudspeth Blackburn ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said today that Democrats have the votes to block the House-passed GOP spending bill and called on Republicans to cut a deal to avert a shutdown Friday night.

President Donald Trump did not appear on camera today — a rarity for the commander in chief — as the US stock market plunged in the wake of the president not ruling out a recession.