Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets on the Republicans' budget bill.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump's multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package at risk of stalling, House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservative Republican holdouts are heading Wednesday to the White House for the last-ditch talks to salvage the "big, beautiful bill."

As President Donald Trump attempts to muscle his GOP agenda through a narrow House majority, Rep. Chip Roy is perhaps the most important holdout to win over. He may also be the toughest.

GOP leaders insist they aren't trying to end the 60-vote rule. Democrats warn that by ignoring the parliamentarian in this case, they are effectively "going nuclear" on the filibuster.

A much-anticipated White House report about childhood diseases has provoked a tug-of-war that’s pitted farmers and some prominent Republican lawmakers against health secretary Robert F.

The GOP has mounted little resistance to the president. But his “big, beautiful bill” is his toughest test yet.

The suggestion comes after Trump abruptly fired the librarian of Congress appointed by the Obama administration.

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries the opportunity to ask for a new trial was rejected by Republican state senators on Wednesday,

The number of Republicans who identify as MAGA dropped in the first months of President Donald Trump's second term in office after peaking in March, according to a new poll. Newsweek reached out to the Republican National Committee (RNC) for comment via its contact form.

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Under state law, school districts are required to pay certain percentages of total staff compensation toward pensions, health insurance and other benefits. Applying those percentages to the $4.2 billion for school employee raises in the agreement, works out to between $543.9 million to $606.9 million in new costs for school districts.

While House Republicans and Trump appear to be aligned in their desire to investigate Biden’s fitness to serve, there is some frustration brewing among congressional committees about how quickly the Trump administration is responding to some of their requests, according to multiple GOP congressional sources familiar with the matter.