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Medicaid recipients without disabilities spend their time playing video games, watching TV: study
Medicaid recipients ages 19-64 who are capable of working and don't have kids spend an average of 4.2 hours per day -- or 126 hours every 30 days -- just...
House Speaker Mike Johnson backs efforts to sanction Russia ‘as strongly as we can’
"There’s many members of Congress that want us to sanction Russia as strongly as we can,” Johnson told reporters on Monday. “And I’m an advocate of that."
Top GOPer calls for more budget cuts to restore 'fiscal sanity' into Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill
The pol said he and other Senate Republicans will work with the president and House GOPers to remove bloat and confront the debt bomb in a final spending bill.
DOGE started the war on waste —now it's up to Congress to keep it going
As Elon Musk exits his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, making the savings his team found stick is now in Congress' hands.
Speaker Johnson lays out game plan to make DOGE cuts law of the land after conservative frenzy
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled his game plan to enshrine into law the cuts pursued by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after conservative backlash against Republicans for failing to...
House Republicans banking on 'big beautiful bill' to boost midterm chances, stop Dem plans for third Trump impeachment
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told The Post that the party wants Americans to "feel the effects" of Trump's agenda ahead of November 2026.
Top Connecticut Dem admits GOP SALT increase would 'be good' for his state
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, voted against the proposed One Big Beautiful Bill Act alongside the rest of his party last week --...
Republicans lack the votes in the Senate to pass Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill,' Sen. Ron Johnson warns
Republicans lack the necessary support in the Senate to get President Trump's marquee Big Beautiful Bill Act over the finish line in its current form, Sen. Ron Johnson warned.
Inside House Speaker Mike Johnson's 'tooth and nail' fight to pass Trump's 'big beautiful' bill
"There were many points in the final couple of weeks where the entire thing appeared that it would fall apart," Johnson told The Post in a phone interview Friday.
Republicans aren't coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs
It’s a sign of how cock-eyed the Washington debate has gotten that Republicans are nervous about the slight slowdown in Medicaid-spending growth in the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Two cheers on passing the tax bill — too bad spending's still out of control
We can’t help but mourn the missed opportunity to truly cut federal spending, which remains on an unsustainable trajectory that guarantees future fiscal disaster.
LI rep snoozes through 'big beautiful bill,' misses vote: 'Losing his juice'
A Long Island Republican source said that state and local party leaders were apoplectic about Garbarino "coming across like a buffoon" for conking out with Trump's agenda on the line.
Speaker Johnson vows to forge ahead with 'big beautiful bill' vote with GOP budget hawks on fence
"The plan is to move forward as expected," House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after meeting Republican holdouts at the White House.
'Angel families' urge Republicans to pass 'big beautiful bill' and secure border to prevent tragedies: 'There must be change'
"We urge every member of Congress to support the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' and vote to secure the border, protect our communities, and prevent the next American family from living...
Biden brain lie hurts Dems, stratospheric school spending and other commentary
“Joe Biden may have cost Democrats the White House in 2024”; their inability to admit it might “hobble them in 2028,” note Politico’s Adam Wren and Holly Otterbein.
Mike Johnson courts fiscal hawks to get Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' back on track after Friday setback
House Speaker Mike Johnson teased plans to bump up the timeline for implementing work requirements on Medicaid to help win over support from fiscal hawks on the "One Big Beautiful...
Key GOP holdout on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' calls for these major spending cuts
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) huddled with White House officials and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on Saturday to voice those concerns -- but didn't commit to backing...
House panel votes down Trump's 'big beautiful bill' as he rages against GOP 'grandstanders'
Five Republicans voted against advancing the massive reconciliation measure out of the House Budget Committee, sending it to a 21-16 defeat.
Speaker Johnson says 'everything is on the table' as blue-state GOPers push SALT deduction cap boost
"If you do more on SALT, you have to find more in savings," Johnson said, hinting that the deductions could be increased in the final language before a House Budget...
House Speaker Mike Johnson throws his weight behind bid to bar congressional stock trading
“You want me to tell you my honest opinion on it? I’m in favor of that, because I don’t think we should have any appearance of impropriety here.”