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The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The president’s directive signals part of the strategy Trump is likely to take to avoid a repeat of his first term, when Democrats flipped the House just two years into his presidency. When asked about the possibility of adding GOP-friendly districts around the country, Trump responded, “Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.”

Roy blasted Senators for increasing deficit spending to pay for tax cuts.

A San Antonio congressman who sits on the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees says he's seen no evidence that Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat, but instead of choosing diplomacy, President Trump "chose war." Joaquin Castro says the bombing of three nuclear sites on Saturday was also illegal, as the military attack was launched without congressional authorization.

Reps. Veronica Escobar and Joaquin Castro were among the 45 elected officials placed on a hit list by a man accused of killing a former Minnesota House speaker and her husband.

The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with the next two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.

“Our work cannot be solely reactive,” Crockett told her colleagues, pitching herself as the most effective messenger among the Democratic hopefuls.

On Thursday, the U.S. House narrowly passed a sweeping bill that slashes about $3.8 trillion in taxes by scaling back social safety net programs including Medicaid and SNAP.

A new study about potential cuts to Medicaid and SNAP found that Texas could see its gross domestic product shrink by $7 billion.

The confirmation of Turner’s death came just months after he won Texas’ 18th Congressional District race.

The Fort Worth Republican’s last vote in Congress was in July. She did not seek reelection this year.

President-elect Donald Trump and his newest top-lieutenant, Elon Musk, have sent Washington scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, even before Trump takes office.