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<p>The action is likely the last House vote on issue ahead of the midterm elections</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&utm_campaign=BN22326&utm_content=signup&utm_term=standfirst&utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Sign up for the US Breaking News email</a></p><p>The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billon in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists.</p><p>The cuts affected all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with health, nutrition, the environment and disaster relief making up the largest share of cuts, the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness organization found.</p><p>As part of a $2.8bn package of military aid, the Trump administration plans to send Israel a type of one-ton bombs that were withheld by the Biden administration over concerns that they were being used to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza.</p><p>Donald Trump âthrew a tantrumâ when he heard that Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a trustee of the Kennedy Center whose lawsuit forced Trumpâs name to be removed from the facade of the memorial, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/trump-kennedy-center-renovations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">had again prevailed in court</a>.</p><p>A televised Michigan Senate debate in Detroit on Tuesday was distinctly one-sided, because the Democratic nominee, Dr Abdul El-Sayed turned up, while his Republican rival, Mike Rogers, chose not to attend.</p><p>Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/qCZbbCWS8DQ?si=yEElgM_mWYVXIBzo&t=375" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">alerted reporters</a> at the White House to stand by for what he called âa big developmentâ in the federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens to be announced by Ryan Raybould, the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas. When it came, however, <a href="https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2099962901645725723" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Raybouldâs announcement</a>, that his office had charged <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/federal-prosecutors-crack-down-illegal-voting-seven-non-citizens-charged-sweeping" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">six lawful permanent residents and one undocumented immigrant</a> for voting in federal elections over the past eight years, hardly lived up to the billing.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/16/donald-trump-iran-russia-midterms-north-carolina-latest-news-updates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>