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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used Labor Day to tout wage growth and $82 billion in tax relief for working families, warning that Democrats, including Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, want to reverse the cuts.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) told Fox News that regardless of what Democrats call their party’s leftward shift, it amounts to “essentially communism,” previewing his message ahead of this week’s Republican convention near his Dallas-area district.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar have introduced a bill to impose 20-year prison terms and a “corporate death penalty” on advanced AI developers, prompting warnings that the measure would cede ground to China and Russia in AI development.
New Jersey and Indiana are taking opposite approaches to protecting utility customers from the costs of the AI data-center boom, while advocates warn neither state has gone far enough to ensure the buildout adds power to the grid rather than just draining it.
HUD and the Justice Department have rescinded an Obama-era rule that allowed indefinite third-party liability claims over building design flaws, a policy the agency says cost owners more than $112 million in retrofits over five years and choked off affordable housing financing.
President Trump is calling for a bipartisan federal tax incentive to bring film and TV production back to the U.S., and California’s own Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman are backing the idea after Hollywood lost more than 42,000 jobs to offshore production.
The House votes Tuesday on censuring Rep. Chuck Edwards over sexual harassment findings, a vote that lands amid a wider bipartisan wave of misconduct allegations and resignations in Congress just nine weeks before Election Day.
ICE has awarded a $17.3 million contract to GardaWorld Federal Services to build out a 600,000-square-foot detention facility in San Antonio, moving forward despite objections from Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and local protest groups.
A visibly nervous UAW member’s halting remarks at an Abdul El-Sayed campaign event in Michigan drew a wave of online criticism, prompting a defense from state Sen. Mallory McMorrow.
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