Trump Administration Live Updates: House G.O.P. Races to Revamp Major Policy Bill, Grasping for Votes to Pass It
Where Things Stand
"Domestic policy bill: House Speaker Mike Johnson was still in negotiations on Wednesday morning with diverging Republican factions on a sweeping domestic policy bill that President Trump has urged his party to unite behind. A key House committee that met after midnight and worked into the morning still has not received any modifications to the legislation, which is meant to deliver Mr. Trump’s agenda. Its prospects remained far from certain: Any more than three Republican holdouts could sink the bill. Read more ›
South African visit: In a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Mr. Trump plans to press President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to roll back the country’s racial equity laws and to do more to protect Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, according to a White House official. Read more ›
Emissions battle: Senate Republicans plan to move on Wednesday to overturn California’s landmark vehicle emissions law, using a little-known federal statute that allows Congress to strike down regulations and that Democrats claim would erode the filibuster. The fight has implications for environmental policy and the institution of the Senate."
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