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America’s Senate plans big changes for the House’s spending bill

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WHIPPING VOTES is a hard job in Congress, especially with as narrow a majority as the one overseen by Mike Johnson, the House speaker. But even the most masterful legislators can’t account for everything. Andrew Garbarino, a New York Republican, fell asleep early on May 22nd as his colleagues considered H.R.1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. He missed the vote. “I’m going to just strangle him,” Mr Johnson joked to reporters. The bill passed, but that was the easy part. The Senate will now negotiate its own version of the most consequential legislation of Donald Trump’s second term.

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Checks and Balance newsletter: Of God and MAGA

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Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, unpacks the blurring of church and state among Donald Trump’s circle

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The Hudson is now so clean that everyone can eat from it

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Battery sashimi, anyone?

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest

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America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting

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