内容摘要：Former assistant to Sean Combs, David James, testifies on the witness stand during Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial in Manhattan federal court, Monday, May 19, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Former assistant to Sean Combs, David James, testifies on the witness stand during Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial in Manhattan federal court, Monday, May 19, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

All told, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates 8.6 million fewer people would have health care coverage and 3 million less people a month would have SNAP food stamps benefits with the proposed changes.The CBO said the tax provisions would increase federal deficits by $3.8 trillion over the decade, while the

, food stamps and other services would tally $1 trillion in reduced spending. The lowest-income households in the U.S. would see their resources drop, while the highest ones would see a boost, it said.of New York read letters from Americans describing the way the program cuts would hurt them. “This is one big ugly bill,” he said.As the minority, without the votes to stop Trump’s package, Democrats instead offered up impassioned speeches and procedural moves to stall its advance. As soon as the House floor reopened for debate, the Democrats forced a vote to adjourn. It failed.

In “the dark of night they want to pass this GOP tax scam,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.Other Democrats called it a “big, bad bill” or a “big, broken promise.”

Pulling the package together before his Memorial Day deadline has been an enormous political lift for Johnson, with few votes to spare from his slim GOP majority whose rank-and-file Republicans have conflicting priorities of their own.

Conservatives, particularly from the House Freedom Caucus, held out for steeper spending cuts to defray costs piling onto the“The fact that the Met realizes that is a beautiful thing,” he said with a sly smile. “But we’ve been doing this forever and we really not paying attention to it. We just do it because we love it.”

This story has been corrected to report that the “Harlem On My Mind” exhibit was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, not the Museum of Modern Art.Follow Associated Press entertainment journalist Gary Gerard Hamilton at @GaryGHamilton on all his social media platforms.

DAMASCO, Siria (AP) — Siria considera que la medida del gobierno del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump de aliviar las sanciones impuestas al país, devastado por la guerra, es un “paso positivo” para aliviar el sufrimiento humanitario y económico, dijo el sábado su ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.En un comunicado, el ministerio expresó que Siria “extiende su mano” a cualquiera que quiera cooperar con Damasco, con la condición de que no haya intervención en los asuntos internos del país.