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Senate Democrats passed their first procedural vote on the Inflation Reduction Act on Saturday. The motion to proceed on the $739 billion climate, tax and health care bill passed in a 51 to 50 vote. Vice President Kamala Harris cast…

Seeking to strike a reassuring tone despite days of negotiations, President Joe Biden said Thursday afternoon that he’s had several “productive conversations” with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and their teams are “making progress” on debt ceiling talks as the country…

Gridlock in Washington over raising the debt ceiling threatens to disrupt payments to millions of Americans who rely on government benefits each month. Seniors, veterans and Americans living with disabilities could be the first to suffer if the federal government…

Rep. Dan Crenshaw and Sen. Tammy Duckworth are reflecting on their past military service in Iraq on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion there. Both lawmakers recently sat down with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz for a segment…

President Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters have, once again, made the subtext into blatant, blaring text. We are deep in the Trump cycle of racist invective, in which the president says something offensive, waits for political allies to…

Li Zhou is a politics reporter at Vox, where she covers Congress and elections. Previously, she was a tech policy reporter at Politico and an editorial fellow at the Atlantic. On Thursday, the House passed the Respect for Marriage Act,…

Rep. Charlie Crist is projected to have defeated Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on Tuesday in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, ABC News reports, setting up a high-profile matchup against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in the fall. With about 92% of the…

Former President Donald Trump’s false allegation that the 2020 presidential election was stolen continues to reverberate among GOP political candidates who are running on anti-establishment platforms and eager to gain the support of the former president’s voter base. Kari Lake…

While 2023 will be a less crowded year for elections, because it falls between the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential race, it will still feature three governors races, in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. Republicans hope to flip one seat…

Nicole Narea covers state politics and policy for Vox, focusing on personalities, conversations, and political battles happening in state capitals and why they matter to the entire country. She first joined Vox in 2019, and her work has also appeared…