Speaker Mike Johnson can lose just three members' votes and still pass the bill in a party-line vote. But more than a dozen Republicans are currently noes.

Twenty states have filed a lawsuit challenging what they said was the Department of Health and Human Services' "decision to provide unfettered access to individual personal health data" to the Department of Homeland Security and, by extension, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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The president, who has a history of spewing sometimes vile insults at rivals, has in recent days escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist. Trump has threatened to arrest Mamdani, to deport him and even to take over the country’s largest city if he wins the general election in November.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani responded to President Donald Trump's threats of arrest, saying it's "an attack on democracy."

Trump simply needs a distraction, Mamdani argued in a press conference with New York City labor leaders on Wednesday. “He said those things about me — someone who stands to be the first immigrant mayor of this city in generations,