The federal budget ran a surplus of $90 billion in August, according to the monthly budget review released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office...

When House lawmakers return on Tuesday after a 47-day August recess that extended well past August, they will have to scramble to deal with funding...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reportedly planning to leave out additional Ukraine aid from a stopgap spending bill that Congress must pass this...

As lawmakers face a September 30 deadline to avoid a shutdown and ultraconservative House Republicans set up a likely clash over funding the...

Something strange has been happening with Medicare, The New York Times reports: “Instead of growing and growing, as it always had before, spending per...

The Senate returned to Washington today, 41 days after its last vote, and the House will return next week. Lawmakers have an enormous amount of work...

As Florida deals with the damage from Hurricane Idalia and Hawaii looks to recover from the devastating wildfires in Maui, the Federal Emergency...

On the same day that President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration in Florida as the state prepares for the arrival of Tropical Storm Idalia...

A Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee plans to use the upcoming battle over the 2024 budget to push for defunding the ongoing...

House Republicans pushing for more spending cuts in Congress’s annual spending bills are in for a fight — including pushback from their Senate GOP...