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âMusic to my earsâ: Trump welcomes Senate passage of âbig, beautiful billâ â live updates
Vice-president JD Vance was in the chamber to break the tie after three Republicans voted against presidentâs sweeping tax and spending billWhatâs in Trumpâs big, beautiful bill? Tax cuts, deportations and moreThe senate has adopted an amendment offered by Republican senator Joni Ernst â who represents Iowa - to prevent jobless millionaires from claiming unemployment compensation.Lawmakers voted 99-1 to strike the AI regulation ban from the bill by adopting an amendment offered by Republican senator Marsha Blackburn. Continue reading...
Senate Republicans pass Trumpâs âbig, beautifulâ bill, clearing major hurdle
Legislation goes to House but unclear if lower chamber will accept changes to tax and spending bill amid factionalismSenate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill demanded by Donald Trump, ending weeks of negotiations over the comprehensive legislation and putting it another step closer to enactment.But it remains unclear if changes made by the chamber will be accepted by the House of Representatives, which approved an initial draft of the legislation last month by a single vote. While Republicans control both house of Congress, factionalism in the lower chamber is particularly intense, with rightwing fiscal hardliners demanding deep spending cuts, moderates wary of dismantling safety net programs and Republicans from Democratic-led states expected to make a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any one of these groups could potentially derail the billâs passage through a chamber where the GOP can lose no more than three votes. Continue reading...
No 10 guts welfare bill in big new concession as minister says Pip cuts planned for 2026 shelved until after Timms review â UK politics live
Switch to four-point Pip eligibility rule may never happen at all as Stephen Timms says government will âremove clause five from the billâCompass, the leftwing group urging Labour to be more pluralistic, has put out a statement condemning the UC and Pip bill. Its director, Neal Lawson, said:If your own friends are telling you to put the brakes on, then something has clearly gone wrong. Despite the governmentâs line, this legislation does not advance Labour values. It is fundamentally at odds with them, and with the views of the mainstream of the party and civil society.âMPs from across the House, and especially the Labour side, must back Rachael Maskellâs reasoned amendment. This billâs creation of a three-tiered social security system would condemn thousands to poverty and could lose Labour the next election.A bill of this magnitude should have been co-produced with disabled people and our organisations from the very start.Now, ministers scramble to promise âconsultationâ as one small part of the process. That is too little, too late. Co-production is not a rushed tick-box exercise tagged onto legislation already steaming through Parliament. It means disabled people shaping the system at every step â not just commenting on the detail of changes already baked in. Continue reading...
Senate Version of Trumpâs Policy Bill Ends Many Clean Energy Credits
By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.
Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze in West Bank Attack
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.
Three killed in Ukrainian drone attack on central Russia
The attack on a factory in the city of Izhevsk was more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the border.
Wimbledon umpire takes action after player complains of âdangerousâ spectator
Operations director says security âabsolutely criticalâ after Yulia Putintseva asks for man to be ejected over fears he had knifeSecurity at Wimbledon is âabsolutely criticalâ, the tournamentâs operations director has said, after a player raised concerns about a spectator during the championshipâs first day.During her match on Monday, the world No 33, Yulia Putintseva, raised security concerns to the umpire about a spectator whom she described as âcrazyâ and âdangerousâ and asked for them to be ejected. Continue reading...
Trump team threatens to prosecute CNN over reporting on Ice-tracking app
Kristi Noem says âweâre working with [DoJ] to see if we can prosecute themâ while president fumes over Iran reportingDonald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.Speaking to reporters in Florida on a trip to visit a new Ice detention center in Everglades, dubbed âAlligator Alcatrazâ, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said her department and the Department of Justice were looking at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock. Continue reading...
Ice raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: âWe need the laborâ
Trumpâs immigration crackdown has made many immigrant farmworkers scared to go to workLisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura county, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the US illegally.Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says she can see with her own eyes how raids carried out by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in the areaâs fields earlier this month, part of Donald Trumpâs immigration crackdown, have frightened off workers. Continue reading...
Trump celebrates harsh conditions for detainees on visit to âAlligator Alcatrazâ
President says immigration jail in Florida Everglades is a âlittle controversial, but I couldnât care lessâDonald Trump on Tuesday toured Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience.The president was chaperoned by Floridaâs hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, who hailed the tented camp on mosquito-infested land 50 miles west of Miami as an example for other states that supported Trumpâs mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...
