House Speaker Mike Johnson scrapped a planned vote Wednesday on a six-month stopgap spending bill ahead of a September 30 deadline. Congress must fund...

A stopgap spending bill that would fund the government for the first six months of the new fiscal year starting on October 1 narrowly cleared a key...

Congress is back after a six-week summer break; it’s been 46 days since the House last held a roll call vote. Lawmakers now have just a few weeks to...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly planning a showdown with Senate Democrats over a spending bill that’s needed to keep the government open and...

In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, former President Donald Trump on Thursday promised to create a government efficiency commission if he’s...

When Congress returns to the Capitol next week, lawmakers will have to finalize and pass a stopgap spending bill by the end of the month — and while...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday outlined the economic policies she aims to pursue in the first 100 days of her administration, including...

Donald Trump made a much-ballyhooed return last night to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, spending a couple of hours in a wide...

When Congress returns from the summer recess next month, they’ll have just a few weeks to fund the government past the end of September and avoid a...

The federal budget deficit was $1.5 trillion in the first 10 months of the 2024 fiscal year, according to an initial estimate released by the...