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Trump wants to go big on spectrum
Trump threw his support behind making a significant amount of spectrum commercially available through the reconciliation bill.
Trump turns on New Yorkers over SALT
Trump abruptly shifted this morning, throwing blue-state Republicans under the bus and telling them to take the deal Johnson offered Monday night.
Trump finally enters the fray
President Donald Trump will join Capitol Hill today to try to get the House GOP Conference to coalesce around the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.”
Trump signs deepfakes law
President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan bill Monday to rein in nonconsensual explicit deepfakes as the Federal Trade Commission gets ready to enforce the new law.
Trump heads to Hill as crunch time nears
President Donald Trump will visit the House Republican Conference Tuesday morning, the most dramatic bid yet to rally support for his domestic legislative agenda.
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Google is ‘getting to yes’
This past week, a top policy official at Google’s YouTube testified at a Senate hearing on a bill the company supports to extend voice and likeness rights in the age of artificial intelligence.
Get ready. It’s the Senate’s turn
The Senate wants to put its “imprint” on the House-passed budget reconciliation package, in the words of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Tech’s tax wins
Tech scored a number of tax wins in the Republican reconciliation bill that passed the House this past week.
What’s next on spectrum, AI state moratorium
there are big problems in the Senate for spectrum and the decade-long moratorium on state artificial intelligence laws.