Budget

The shutdown watch is on. With four days to go before a Friday night deadline to fund the government and no bipartisan compromise in sight, House Republicans unveiled a 99-page bill over the weekend

As Republican lawmakers consider making changes or cuts to Medicaid as part of their push to offset the cost of their tax plans, a new poll from healthcare foundation KFF highlights a simple truth

President Donald Trump’s comments yesterday empowering his Cabinet members to take charge of staffing and firing decisions at their departments — and seeming to limit the power of Elon Musk and his

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants his Cabinet secretaries to take the lead in efforts to scale back the federal workforce — and to use a scalpel rather than a hatchet in making cuts

President Trump said Thursday he is delaying until April 2 a 25% tariff on goods imported from Mexico and Canada that are covered by the trade pact he signed in his first term. The announcement comes

The Trump Administration is planning for a sweeping reorganization of the Department of Veterans Affairs this year that includes cutting more than 80,000 jobs, according to an internal memo first

1. The state of our union is…ugly. This wasn’t officially a State of the Union address, but it certainly demonstrated the state of our politics. Trump’s remarks were highly partisan, combative and

On this date 160 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln was sworn in to his second term in office and delivered a brief but historic inaugural address to a nation still fighting the Civil War. He