US Politics — Today

The White House launched an all-out blitz to ram a partisan megabill through the Senate before the August recess, but ran headlong into a wall of GOP skepticism. OMB Director Russ Vought, legislative director James Braid, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich descended on the Senate GOP lunch Wednesday to pitch a budget resolution kicking off "Reconciliation 3.0" — a package focused on $73 billion for the Iran war, agricultural aid, and election security. The ask:...