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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a new bill banning presidents from issuing crypto, but not before the Senate passes a crypto bill that omitted similar language.
Lee has faced immense backlash for social media posts making light of the attacks on two Minnesota lawmakers.
The new proposal sets up a clash with House Republicans and some GOP senators too.
The proposal mirrors a House plan that would undermine civil service protections and give a president like Trump more power to fire whomever he wants.
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"This is about how this entire administration is approaching people who dissent," Sarah Longwell said.
They took language out of the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that limited courts' powers, but now want to price people out of being able to sue the government at all.
Democrats had sought to amend the bill to prohibit the president from profiting from a stablecoin venture while in office, but ended up backing down.
President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be signed into law by Independence Day.
Republicans are rushing to send the bill to the president's desk by the July 4 holiday, an ambitious timeline with little room for disagreement.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has a provision buried halfway through its 1,000-plus pages that would take away power from the courts.