President Donald Trump, center, and Vice President JD Vance, right, and Elon Musk met backstage prior to a presidential campaign event at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024.
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The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 established the Congressional Budget Office, an agency designed to provide lawmakers with objective information about the budgetary impacts of proposed bills. Up until that point, the scorekeeping within the government came from the executive branch.
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Soldiers watch civil rights protesters walking during the third Selma March in Alabama, on March 25, 1965. President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to prevent violence against the marchers.
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National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on Sunday in Los Angeles. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids.
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Police officers and National Guard soldiers stand outside a downtown jail in Los Angeles. Protests over federal immigration raids prompted the Trump administration to call in the National Guard against the wishes of city and state leaders.
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Travelers pass through Newark Liberty International Airport's international terminal after President Trump's new travel ban took effect on Monday.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 29: David Zaslav speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times)
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A protester confronts a line of U.S. National Guard in the metropolitan detention center of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
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Donald Trump invoked emergency powers more times in his first 100 days in office than any other modern president has done during the same time period.
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National Guard soldiers and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Police officers clash with demonstrators outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, MDC, in downtown Los Angeles, California on June 8, 2025.
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President John F. Kennedy on August 4, 1961 on his way to a weekend on Cape Cod. As president, Kennedy valued exercise, physical fitness and vaccines.
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Becca Morris in the home she's in the process of buying in Harrington, Del., on May 14. She found it just a few months before her federal housing subsidy was set to end.
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Nicky Sundt of Washington, D.C., celebrates with the crowd during the WorldPride festivities in Washington, D.C.
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The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court intervene and allow it to make personnel cuts at the Education Department.
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Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks during an April 4 news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., after her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
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Texas National Guard troops try to untangle an immigrant caught in razor wire after he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 31, 2024. The Trump administration now plans to use Guard troops for law enforcement activities, including "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside immigrant detention facilities.
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A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing policies that are show progress.
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This combination of pictures created on June 5 shows U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, D.C., on May 5 and Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 30. President Donald Trump said on June 5 that he asked "crazy" Elon Musk to leave his administration and threatened to take away the tech tycoon's government contracts, as a growing row over the U.S. president's budget bill triggered a bitter public divorce with his top donor.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, in Washington.
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U.S. President Doanld Trump, joined by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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