As President Donald Trump works to muscle his sweeping tax and spending cuts package through Congress, a network of conservative groups has undertaken a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz to spread his message to voters and pressure recalcitrant lawmakers to get in line.

Trump hosted the president of South Africa at the White House. What happened: Trump criticized Cyril Ramaphosa for his country’s treatment of Afrikaners, pushing genocide claims and playing a video he falsely said depicted burial sites for White farmers.

Leftist protesters disrupted a Capitol Hill office building for a short time Wednesday as the House moves toward a vote on the President Trump-backed "big, beautiful" budget bill.

The dollar fell against a broad swathe of currencies on Wednesday, undermined by worries about the Trump administration's tax cut and spending bill, as well as a weak 20-year Treasury bond sale that reinforced a growing view that investors are shying away from U.

What it's meant in market terms has been a severe leg up in Treasury yields and a sell-off in stocks. "I feel like the dam is finally starting to break a little bit, and there's too many holes in the dike to put our fingers in,

After scheduling a 1 a.m. committee hearing to continue advancing President Trump's desired "big, beautiful" budget bill, Democrats are slamming the move as an effort to avoid criticism.

To help close the funding gap, Ball proposed emergency legislation to provide an additional $14.5 million in one-time funding from the county’s revenue surplus. With the passage of the budget Wednesday, the school system will receive a total of $816 million in county funding, according to budget officials.

A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.