Senate Republicans have decided to move forward with a controversial budget technique that could increase the likelihood of honoring Trump’s campaign promise of “no taxes on tips.”

The former president and Republican nominee has appeared at times in denial about the reality that Harris, and not President Joe Biden, is now his rival.

Nevada’s elected Democrats, state strategists and pro-abortion advocates say the Dobbs decision unleashed an enormous wave of political anger and activism, powering Democrats to victory in 2022 and becoming a pillar of the party’s 2024 playbook — even as access to abortion remained protected in Nevada law.

Despite wide Republican margins in Nevada’s 15 rural counties, Laxalt — a former attorney general and one-time candidate for governor — was defeated amid numerically larger support for Cortez Masto from the state’s two largest urban counties, Clark and Washoe.

In what has become a fight for political survival for Cortez Masto and a chance to finally re-enter electoral politics for Laxalt, the 2022 midterms have emerged as a grueling slog fought through tens of millions of dollars in advertising spending that have blanketed airwaves with nonstop attacks. 

By nearly all metrics, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is one of — if not the most — vulnerable incumbents in the entire country, running in one of just a handful of races that could decide control of the U.S. Senate. 

The event was the latest in a series of Laxalt appearances that have sought to hammer Democrats on the economy — and skirt discussions of abortion. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Wednesday he hopes to attend former Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s Basque Fry in August as Senate Republicans hope to win back the majority in the midterm elections by focusing on conservative issues that they argue resonate with Latinos in Nevada and other swing states.

The Senate last week focused on confirming President Donald Trump’s 159th judge as Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto ramped up her campaign against former state Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Democrats and Republicans stuck to their partisan corners last week as the House approved a resolution laying out the public process of the impeachment inquiry.

Former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke gave an impassioned defense of himself Wednesday before a Senate panel against a damning letter from the American Bar Association that deemed him unqualified to serve on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in part over concerns about whether he would be fair to members of the LGBTQ community.

Following the second anniversary of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, supporters of gun-control legislation are holding on to the slimmest of hopes for passing new laws, aiming to find a path forward in the face of a narrowing window for congressional action.