The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners safe.

Six Nobel laureate economists say GOP-backed "big beautiful bill" will hurt millions of Americans and weaken the U.S. economy ...

Congressional appropriators will unveil their first draft of the fiscal 2026 federal budget this week, with a House committee ...

With 33 days until the new fiscal year starts and at what one called an “all-hands-on-deck moment,” negotiators convened ...

I'm generally the skunk in the room, or, you know, the kid who says the emperor has no clothes. I just ask my colleagues, ...

Ron Johnson said no amount of pressure from President Trump can move him from opposing the current version of "one big, ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Hill to deliver a double-barreled message. To the fiscal hawks, he said not to “f— around with Medicaid.” To blue-state Republicans, he ...

On Friday evening, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ overall credit-rating ... which the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget has calculated could add $2.5 trillion more ...

while defense spending fell to half of its former share of the federal budget. The United States can only counter its nuclear peers by modernizing and expanding its nuclear forces. This requires ...

A House committee releases its plan to reduce the deficit by $880 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities.

Fewer container ships are arriving in the United States from abroad ... He brought up the federal budget directly just once. “I want to do what has not been done in 24 years,” he said.