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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and President Donald Trump arrive for a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

House GOP grinding ahead with Trump’s big tax cuts bill, but new report says it will add to deficit

House Republicans are preparing to vote on their multi-trillion-dollar package of tax breaks and program cuts as soon as Wednesday.
 
Charging bays are seen at the new Electrify America indoor electric vehicle charging station in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

What to know about the US Senate’s effort to block vehicle-emission rules in California

 
Charging bays are seen at the new Electrify America indoor electric vehicle charging station in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Senate will try to block California vehicle standards that would phase out gas-powered cars

 
President Donald Trump, center, surrounded by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., speaks to reporters before a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump on Capitol Hill implores divided Republicans to unify behind his big tax cuts bill

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump looks to unite Republicans with visit to Capitol before key votes on tax cut bill

 

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in ‘big, beautiful’ bill

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined from left by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Conservatives block Trump’s big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump’s ‘beautiful’ bill spans 1,116 pages. Here’s what’s inside it

 
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EPA chief Zeldin faces bipartisan anger in Senate over funding freeze, grant cancellations

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump’s bill

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

What’s in Trump’s big bill? Trillions in tax cuts, changes to Medicaid and more

 
The Capitol is seen in Washington, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Republicans look to help Trump strip tax-exempt status of nonprofits he says support terrorism

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House works into the night as Republicans push ahead on Trump’s big bill

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined from left by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks to reporters about his push for a House-Senate compromise budget resolution to advance President Donald Trump's agenda, even with opposition from hard-line conservative Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump’s $4.9 trillion tax plan targets Medicaid to offset costs

 
Ken Honeycutt demonstrates charging his Kia Soul electric vehicle in San Lorenzo, Calif., Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

House Republicans target clean energy tax credits and pollution rules in budget proposal

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care

 
Hikers look up at a fast moving storm as it makes its way through Zion National Park outside of Springdale, Utah, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File)

A Republican push to sell public lands in the West is reigniting a political fight

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined from left by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks to reporters about his push for a House-Senate compromise budget resolution to advance President Donald Trump's agenda, even with opposition from hard-line conservative Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Tax the rich? Slash spending? Republicans wrestle with economic priorities in the Trump era

 
President Donald Trump, from right, speaks to reporters accompanied by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Burgum's wife Kathryn Burgum, aboard Air Force One where Trump signed a proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day, as he travels from West Palm Beach, Fla. to New Orleans, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

House follows Trump’s lead with a vote to change the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump’s tax breaks bill

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care

 
Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Republicans push to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

What’s in Trump’s big bill? Money for migrant clampdown but tax breaks and program cuts hit ‘bumps’

 
In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, vehicles make their way westbound on Interstate 80 across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as seen from Treasure Island in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

US House votes to block California’s nation-leading vehicle emissions rules

 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of N.Y., speaks during an event with House and Senate Democrats to mark 100 days of President Donald Trump's term on the steps of the Senate on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Democratic Leader Jeffries says Trump’s 100 days filled with ‘chaos, cruelty and corruption’

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP wants to pump billions into Trump’s deportations and detentions as part of tax bill

 
Elon Musk flashes his T-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump’s team has disrupted some $430 billion in federal funds, top Democrats say

 
Ranking member Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., speaks, April 19, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rep. Gerry Connolly steps down as top Oversight Democrat and won’t seek reelection as cancer returns

 
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he and first lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Washington. The President and first lady will be traveling to Rome and the Vatican to attend the funeral for Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Higher taxes on millionaires? Trump says he’s open, but many in his party are not

 
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How a fight over proxy voting for new parents upended the US House

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Now that they’ve passed a budget plan, the hard part begins for Republicans

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House approves budget framework for Trump’s ‘big’ bill after intense wrangling sways GOP holdouts

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters about his push for a House-Senate compromise budget resolution to advance President Donald Trump's agenda, even with opposition from hard-line conservative Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican-led House passes bill to limit nationwide orders from federal district judges

 
The U.S. Capitol is seen, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

House votes to overturn Biden-era rule limiting bank overdraft fees to $5, sends to Trump to sign

 
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