Besides the $12 billion in farm aid, the budget reconciliation framework directs $73 billion for defense spending and $10 billion to incentivize states to implement policies from a White House-endorsed voter ID bill, the SAVE America Act.
Country music icon Willie Nelson is urging Texans to resist the spread of AI data centers into rural communities, warning that the massive facilities threaten farmland, water supplies, and the way of life in small towns like his hometown of Abbott, Texas. Nelson posted a pointed message on Facebook and Instagram this week, calling on […] The post Willie Nelson, 93, rallies rural Texas against AI data centers threatening farmland near his hometown appeared first on American Almanac .
Country music icon Willie Nelson is urging Texans to resist the spread of AI data centers into rural communities, warning that the massive facilities threaten farmland, water supplies, and the way of life in small towns like his hometown of Abbott, Texas. Nelson posted a pointed message on Facebook and Instagram this week, calling on Americans to "fight against data centers invading our land." The 93-year-old, who still owns property and farmed land in Abbott, a Hill County town of just 352 people spread across six-tenths of a square mile, said the facilities have no place near small communities that depend on open land and local agriculture. The statement lands amid a growing backlash across Texas, where roughly 250 data centers have…Open
White House officials will press Senate Republicans behind closed doors Wednesday to pass a blueprint for another GOP-only megabill before they leave for the August recess, but save any possible debt ceiling increase for later, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Senate Republican leaders have been skeptical that there is the time — or the votes — to get it done. President Trump and his team disagree. - White House officials want the Senate to build in flexibility to jam through as much of the SAVE America Act as possible, and they are insisting it can be crafted to avoid tough amendment votes. Zoom in: Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, legislative affairs director James Braid and former House Speaker New…
House Republicans are pressuring the Senate to advance their reconciliation package as President Trump pushes for quick action. Why it matters: The roughly $95 billion package is House Republicans' latest effort to enact Trump's priorities without Democratic votes using the reconciliation process. - The framework already cleared some early hurdles, but House Republicans are pressing the Senate to move quickly to keep Trump's legislative agenda on track before the midterm elections. - The reconciliation plan would require a simple majority in the Senate and avoid the 60-vote filibuster. - "We are ready to work side-by-side with the Senate to get this done for the American People!" Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. Here are key…
House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a budget framework for a roughly $95 billion reconciliation package that would provide funding for defense, farm aid and state efforts to implement voter ID requirements in elections. The resolution marks the opening salvo in Republicans’ effort to use the budget reconciliation process one final time to advance key GOP priorities while they still control both chambers of Congress and the White House. Because reconciliation bills can pass the Senate with a simple majority, the process would allow Republicans to sidestep a Democratic filibuster. Read More: #congress #trump #mikejohnson #politics #iran