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By David Morgan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. congressional Republicans are struggling over how to pay for President Donald Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar tax-cut and immigration reform agenda, with the fate of the Medicaid healthcare program and the nation’s debt ceiling hanging in the balance. The debate has Trump’s party torn between its traditional aversion to …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A powerful U.S. Senate Republican called on Wednesday for an independent probe of Trump administration officials’ discussion of sensitive attack plans on the Signal messaging app, after critics argued that U.S. troops could have died if the information had fallen into the wrong hands. Senator Roger …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has installed two Trump loyalists at the federal HR agency after allies of billionaire Elon Musk blindsided top Trump officials with a surprise government-wide email last month demanding workers summarize five things they achieved at work in the previous week. Billy Long, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday refused to pause a judge’s ruling requiring the administration of President Donald Trump to reinstate more than 17,000 workers at six agencies who lost their jobs as part of Trump’s purge of the federal workforce. A 2-1 panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. …

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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted about plans to kill a Houthi militant leader in Yemen two hours before a military operation meant to be shrouded in secrecy, according to screenshots of a chat released by The Atlantic on Wednesday. The revelation that highly sensitive attack plans …

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By Ted Hesson and Luc Cohen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s temporary block on the Trump administration’s deportation of some Venezuelan immigrants under a little-used 18th century law. The decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit marks a defeat for Republican President Donald …

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By Jack Queen and Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A court order blocking President Donald Trump’s freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance will remain in place for now, a federal appeals court said on Wednesday.  The ruling by the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals leaves in place a lower court order …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday paused an order that would have forced Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting initiative to turn over records and answer questions under oath about its efforts to slash bureaucracy under President Donald Trump. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia …

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By Kanishka Singh and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services canceled around $12 billion in federal grants to states that were allocated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal department and state officials said on Wednesday.  The grants were being used to track, prevent and control infectious diseases, including measles …

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