Even before the last vote on U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill was counted, Republicans and Democrats in Congress began gaming out how to use it to gain an edge in the 2026 midterm elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.

Republican lawmakers have handed President Donald Trump the first major legislative achievement of his second term, following a fierce arm-twisting campaign by GOP leaders to unite a deeply divided party behind his sweeping domestic agenda.

Republicans muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cut bill through the House on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to his desk by the GOP’s self-imposed deadline of July 4th.

President Trump has been urging lawmakers to send him the bill to sign into law by July 4, but also acknowledged the timeline is flexible.

James Carville is bracing for impact. The Democratic pundit said that he wouldn’t “put anything past” Donald Trump—and he went so far as to suggest the president might cancel midterm elections in a ploy to prevent the Democrats from winning.

The Democratic strategist believes President Donald Trump will "see the writing on the wall" ahead of the midterms and do anything to stay in power.

With these considerations, CBS would pay well in excess of the $15 million ABC paid Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit last year. Current Paramount management disputes the additional allocation. FAIR ELECTION FUND URGES FCC TO HOLD CBS ACCOUNTABLE FOR 'UNLAWFUL CONDUCT’ RELATED TO ’60 MINUTES’ INTERVIEW "Presidential extortion as a tool of power and corruption,

The question was less about whether Paramount would settle with Trump, and more about how much his lawyers would accept.