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House passes Trump’s $4.5T tax cut and spending bill
Jul 3, 2025

House passes Trump’s $4.5T tax cut and spending bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump‘s big trillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday in Congress, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline. The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democ[...]

Government | Politics 2023: ROB WITTMAN
Jun 4, 2025

Virginia Congress members press for details on Fort Eustis layoffs

A bipartisan delegation is seeking more transparency regarding the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command moving its headquarters .

President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Jun 4, 2025

Trump’s promised steel and aluminum tariffs go into effect

U.S. President Donald Trump hiked nearly all steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% in a move that’s set to hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely to increase prices for consumers.

U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Fairfax. Photo courtesy Connolly's office
Apr 28, 2025

Connolly says this will be his last term in Congress

U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly announced Monday that he will be stepping back as ranking Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and that this will be his final term in Congress, as his cancer has returned after a brief remission.

On, April 16, Sen. Mark Warner held a roundtable with Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and others at the Carillion’s Center for Simulation, Research, and Patient Safety in Roanoke.
Apr 24, 2025

Medicaid cuts could close Virginia’s rural hospitals, Warner warns

Sen. Mark Warner warns Medicaid cuts may shutter hospitals West of Roanoke. In Virginia. That's because many rural hospitals operate in the red, and depend on Medicaid funding to keep the lights on.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Apr 2, 2025

Trump gives GOP senators his support as they charge ahead on tax package and spending cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators unveiled a budget proposal Wednesday that’s central to President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda of tax breaks, spending cuts and border security, but they’re delaying some of the most difficult decisions, including how to pay for the multitrillion-dollar package. Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House as they charge ahead to [...]

Trump pressures Senate Republicans to oppose resolution that would nullify Canada tariffs
Apr 2, 2025

Trump pressures Senate Republicans to oppose resolution that would nullify Canada tariffs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are facing pressure Wednesday from President Donald Trump to oppose a Democratic resolution that would nullify the presidential emergency on fentanyl he is using to implement tariffs on Canada. Just hours before Trump was set to announce his plan for “reciprocal tariffs” on China, Mexico and Canada — his so-called “Liberation Day” — the Sena[...]

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, and Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., confer as the Senate Budget Committee works on the markup of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Mar 27, 2025

Canada is not our enemy, Kaine says

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia’s junior Democratic senator, feels strongly that Canada doesn’t pose a national security threat to the United States — a contrast to President Donald Trump, who has threatened the Great White North with tariffs as retaliation for what he says are insufficient efforts at keeping drugs from coming across its border. […]

Scott Bessent, United States Secretary of the Treasury, speaks at an Economic Club of New York luncheon in New York, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Mar 26, 2025

US could run short of money to pay its bills by August without debt limit deal, CBO says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is on track to hit its statutory debt ceiling — the so-called X-date when the country runs short of money to pay its bills— as early as August without a deal between lawmakers and the White House, according to a Congressional Budget Office report Wednesday. By that time, the government […]

Senators hear case for cutting American workweek to 32 hours
Mar 15, 2024

Senators hear case for cutting American workweek to 32 hours

WASHINGTON — In 1955, Walter Reuther, head of what was then known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), told a Senate hearing that coming technological advancements would make a four-day workweek possible. That was the last Senate hearing on the subject for nearly 70 years. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee finally ended […]

Carrie Hunt, president and CEO of the Virginia Credit Union League, says that many Virginians live in banking deserts. Photo by Caroline Martin
Jan 30, 2023

Members only

Credit unions in Virginia would like to grow their membership, but a rule change relaxing the state’s policy is not in the cards this spring. This year’s short General Assembly session — in an election year with a split legislature — makes it harder to pass bills with any controversial elements, and any major expansion […]

2022 Political Roundtable: Red wave? Maybe a puddle
Nov 29, 2022

2022 Political Roundtable: Red wave? Maybe a puddle

On balance, Democrats came out winners in the 2022 midterm elections, having staved off a widely forecast “red wave” of Republican victories, according to panelists at Virginia Business’ annual Political Roundtable, held Nov. 9 in Richmond. The idea of a red wave or “red tsunami” was “perhaps … a bit of a myth … largely […]

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