Republicans may not have a functioning legislative majority by the time those fights begin. The GOP won 220 seats in November ...

Almost a third of the approved amount is earmarked for payments to energy-sector service providers, according to the ...

Incoming-President Trump's promise to dismantle the Department of Education could impact your student loans. Here's what you ...

The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

As a matter of fact, it came just a few hours before midnight. But, last week, the House of Representatives acted…avoiding a federal government shutdown. The last-minute vote wasn’t a total surprise, ...

Trump praised Johnson as "a good, hard working, religious man" while endorsing his continued speakership on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump is endorsing House Speaker Mike Johnson as he prepares to fight to keep his role leading ...

Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster ...

People reacted with a mixture of relief and indifference to news Saturday that a government shutdown had been averted after a ...

The US government has narrowly avoided a crippling shutdown after politicians agreed on a last-minute spending deal. Failure to reach an agreement would have meant federal employees would have ...

Several prior budget items were slashed, including protections for victims of deepfake pornography and those on food stamps.