Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets to on the Republicans' budget bill.

President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to stop negotiating and pass his sweeping filibuster-proof reconciliation bill Tuesday.

House Republicans are negotiating bill agreements on green energy tax credits, Medicaid work requirements and more, with a Budget Committee meeting set for Sunday night.

Updates and the latest news as Trump addresses House Republicans about the reconciliation bill and RFK Jr. testifies to Congress about DOGE cuts and his vaccine views.

The Congressional Budget Office has said the bill, if enacted, would cause more than 8 million people to lose their coverage.

Foreign investors are anxiously monitoring negotiations over the GOP spending megabill, which threatens to further balloon the deficit. Some are responding to the market turmoil by turning away from U.

A key committee met after midnight on Wednesday and worked through dawn as Republican leaders finalized changes aimed at winning over holdouts in hopes of bringing the bill to the floor in short order.

Nonpartisan research groups studying the proposal have estimated that it would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal debt—currently at an all-time high of $36.8 trillion—over the next decade. Despite those projections,