Social Security has less than a decade until it lacks sufficient funds to pay out all scheduled benefits. Democrats and ...

Steele then noted that Trump has given “absolute power” to billionaire Elon Musk — whose unofficial Department of Government Efficiency is slashing public spending and attempting to cull the positions ...

House Republicans are preparing to adopt a plan that puts a $4.5 trillion limit on the size of the tax cut, but even that ...

The effort to dismantle USAID tells us a lot about what programs Republicans tend to think of as “wasteful spending.” ...

The political feud between Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and the state's high-profile state superintendent, Ryan Walters, is the ...

tia.yang ( Tia Yang, senior editor): Americans overall are fairly split over tariffs. Broadly speaking, polls this year have shown that increased or new tariffs are slightly unpopular among the public ...

President Donald Trump has hit his second term at a full sprint, marking each day with a flurry of activity meant to rebrand ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins confirmation to be President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 to 48.

Patel is a controversial nominee, having long raged against the so-called Deep State and prioritized his loyalty to Trump.

A Trump backlash could help Democrats retake the House in 2026, but the Senate landscape is too pro-Republican.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump ...

While Democrats have been speaking out against President Donald Trump's federal cuts, Republicans are just beginning to stir.