Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, opposed the bill. Sen. Mitch McConnell voted in favor of the bill, after previously voting against it in a procedural vote Tuesday that forced Vice President JD Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote in his capacity as president of the Senate.

By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.

President Trump made good on a threat: the Federal Railroad Administration terminated $4 billion in federal funding for the high-speed rail project.

The massive bill is guided by spending requests from the White House. It will extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, while cutting billions of dollars in social program funding. It's been described as the largest cuts to social welfare programs since at least the 1990s, and according to some experts the most severe in modern history.

The House is expected to take up President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans approved $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting overnight.

Looming federal funding cuts for PBS put in jeopardy some of the most-used educational videos and games shown to help children improve in literacy and other social skills. The cuts, part of a $9 billion rescissions package Republicans are poised to pass as soon as Wednesday afternoon,

The Trump administration pushed back Sunday on criticism of the National Weather Service's initial forecasting and its staffing levels ahead Central Texas' catastrophic flooding. The big picture: The storm that's killed at least 80 people brought federal cuts to NOAA's NWS under scrutiny after it emerged that two Texas NWS offices were missing key staff at the time,