The bill to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed over the objections of Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch’s power of the purse.

House conservatives are drawing battle lines in the burgeoning showdown over President Donald Trump's spending cuts request.

The Senate burns the midnight oil hoping to pass Trump’s spending agenda, the man accused of fatally stabbing four college students in Idaho appears to have accepted a plea deal, and the city of Los Angeles is again engrossed in a legal battle over immigration.

Senate Republicans have advanced President Donald Trump's request to cancel some $9 billion in previously approved spending.

Trump and Republicans have set a July 4 deadline to pass a bill cutting taxes and Medicaid and to pay for immigration enforcement efforts.

Senate Republicans advance President Donald Trump's $9 billion spending clawback package through final procedural hurdle, with some bipartisan opposition to foreign aid cuts.