Before Speaker Mike Johnson could get his first real stretch of sleep in three days, the House GOP’s painstakingly drafted “big, beautiful bill” was running into resistance in the Senate.

The troubled, $20 billion US residential solar market’s future rests on whether Senate Republicans will challenge their brethren in the House of Representatives and change provisions of the massive tax and spending bill that executives and analysts alike say would devastate the industry.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) pressed Senate Republicans to advance President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which the House passed earlier this week.  Gingrich said that GOP senators have

The 2026 midterms will prove crucial to Democrats and Republicans as both chambers of Congress hang in the balance.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has argued that the ability to write off state and local taxes only benefits homeowners in high-tax states.

The Republican-led Senate moved Wednesday to overturn key Biden-era waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions, a major blow to that state’s effort to regulate pollution from cars and trucks that could have broad environmental impacts for the rest of the country.

California’s authority to set environmental rules that are tougher than national standards had never been challenged by Congress. Until now.

Senate Republicans could vote this week to take away California's ability to impose tough limits on car emissions — a move Democrats call unprecedented.