Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president ...

Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn is critical of a House slowdown in passing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which she ...

The voters did not hire Elon Musk, and no amount of spin will wipe away the fact he almost drove the government into shutdown ...

The spending bill that cleared Congress didn’t include pharmacy benefit manager reforms, a pay raise for lawmakers, and a ...

House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to reject Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest stopgap funding package ...

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In the wake of the near-shutdown, it seems that Trump’s second term could look almost exactly like his first term.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, worked with and against a Republican-controlled legislature on issues like ...

A bipartisan bill that would have provided health care for 9/11 first responders was excluded from the budget deal ...

President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next month, is using Elon Musk's wealth and influence to bully Congress.

President-elect Trump is seizing the reins of power early and, according to lawmakers in both parties, already acting as ...

President-elect Trump’s tough talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most comfortable playing offense, ...