MEDICAID CUTS STALL MEGABILL — House Republicans failed to secure enough votes as of Thursday morning for their massive domestic spending bill despite an aggressive push from party leaders. But a key procedural vote indicates that the GOP is close to sending the bill to President Donald Trump ’s desk.

The president exhorted holdout House Republicans to get behind his tax-and-spending bill , after the party’s efforts to pass it ran into stubborn resistance.

Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach