House Republicans and Senate Democrats have competing plans for lowering taxes for families. But both parties favor raising ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the ...

Live updates and the latest news as U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum kick in and the Senate turns to a government funding ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said that there is not enough Democratic support in the Senate to advance ...

D.C. officials are pleading with the U.S. Senate to restore the city’s funding levels after the House passed a spending bill that would cut about $1 billion from the District’s budget.

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

President Donald Trump's reckless tariff policies are threatening to drive the economy into a ditch—and Congress just made it ...

Several California Republicans represent communities that rely on Medicaid for health care coverage. Their recent ...

The countdown is on for Maine lawmakers to pass a supplemental budget, which is needed to fill a multi-million-dollar budget shortfall for MaineCare.

But such a move would risk shifting some of the blame for an increasingly shaky US economy from Trump onto the rival party US ...

Two key House votes show that even a lightweight like Mike Johnson has the juice to enact Trump’s smash-and-grab agenda.

Senate Democrats are staring down a major dilemma as they agonize over how to handle the GOP’s stopgap spending bill in the ...