In a “wraparound” amendment, a new tax on solar and wind gets dropped.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
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Little progress and much confusion as the Senate slogs it out through the night.
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The Senate bids to save its Big Beautiful Bill by buying off Sen. Lisa Murkowski of the 49th state.
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New Byrd Violations Threaten Trump’s Beautiful Bill
The parliamentarian kicked out a key Medicaid provision, part of a $587 billion rollback in spending cuts. Republicans don’t have good options to deal with that.
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Republicans Propose Fixing 1.5 Percent of Their Rural Hospital Problem
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Enforcers are waving through bad mergers and weaponizing others to reach ideological ends.
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The Parliamentarian Comes for the Beautiful Bill
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