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An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.

That proposal, which would involve shifting GOP voters from safely red districts into neighboring blue ones, is aimed at safeguarding Republicans’ thin majority in Congress, where they control the lower chamber, 220-212.

House Speaker Mike Johnson barely whipped together the votes to push President Donald Trump's "big beautiful" bill through the lower chamber.

House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed through President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act through the lower chamber on Thursday, squeaking out a victory for the president's spending-slashing agenda by a margin of just one vote.

The win helped the GOP hold on to their slim majority in the lower chamber.