JD Vance casts tie-breaking vote as Senate passes ‘big, beautiful’ bill - The Independent was on Capitol Hill overnight as ...

The Senate voted 51-50 in favor of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" backed by President Trump, with JD Vance casting the ...

The U.S. vice president, who called $930 billion in Medicaid cuts "immaterial," will almost certainly become a target for ...

Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks ...

President Donald Trump has about three years and six months left in his second term, but one top GOP figure has already ...

Donald Trump visits a new migrant detention centre in Florida dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" as his row with Elon Musk is ...

Republican infighting defined a caustic debate that saw significant opposition to Medicaid cuts, which could define the 2026 ...

The bill next goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana warned off big revisions from his chamber’s ...

The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed.

The deeply divided House is holding a final vote President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package after a group of Republican holdouts reversed course and agreed to allow the bill to ...

Vance, himself, played a major role in the passage of the bill after the vote was tied at 50-50, and Vance cast the deciding ...

The United States' brief but intense incident with Iran prompted reconsideration of previous tensions, including one of the ...