At a White House dinner Trump shares plans to bring home more hostages captured by Hamas, predicts stronger GOP majorities in 2026 and celebrates legislative achievements of first 6 months.

On federal spending, Donald Trump's team says it wants less bipartisanship, while expressing indifference to Congress’ existence. That's not sustainable.

"Though the House and Senate have much still to debate on full-year appropriations, this much is clear: Congress is rejecting the full extent of the unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful cuts to NASA and NASA science proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget," the Planetary Society said in a statement.

Sen. Thom Tillis stood on the Senate floor and warned White House aides to tread carefully as they cut foreign aid and to remember the promises they made to get a rescission bill approved by senators.

Two GOP Senators voted against the measures criticizing the lack of clarity on which programs will be affected by the claw backs.

White House budget chief Russell Vought said Thursday that the administration is likely to send another rescissions package to Congress to claw back previously approved spending. Vought’s comments