That cost jumps closer to $4 trillion once rising interest payment costs are taken into account, according to fiscal experts.

The Senate’s top Democrat scored one tiny, largely meaningless win: Using Senate procedure, he forced Republicans’ official ...

Happy July 1, or as it's known to some here in New York, Bobby Bonilla Day. In Washington, D.C, President Donald Trump's signature policy bill squeaked through the Senate by the slimmest of ...

Good evening. The Senate's rules referee sent Republicans scrambling today by determining that critical elements of their big bill don't meet the strict rules surrounding the reconciliation ...

Good evening! The conservative majority on the Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory on Friday, scaling back the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions limiting ...

Under that assumption, the JCT reported this weekend that the tax portions of the Republican megabill would cost just $442 ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law one year ago today, pushing $1.9 trillion of relief spending and economic stimulus into the U.S. economy in response to the Covid-19 ...

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the ...

The legislative branch would have coequal power with the executive branch headed by the President as a way to keep the head of state from using his power to become a tyrant. The judicial branch ...

The massive reconciliation bill bearing much of President Trump's economic agenda would reward upper-income households while hurting low-income ones, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday ...