The White House last week requested a defense budget for fiscal year 2023 that would be the largest in history, at least in nominal terms. That...

With only days left before congressional lawmakers are scheduled to leave Washington, D.C. for a two-week recess, Senate negotiators are reportedly...

The increasing severity of floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes and extreme heat due to climate change could cost the federal government trillions...

The $1.5 trillion annual spending bill passed by Congress last month included 4,962 earmarks totaling more than $9 billion. The New York Times has a...

Senate negotiators are closing in on a bipartisan deal to direct $10 billion more toward combatting the Covid-19 pandemic. “We’ve reached an agreement...

President Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday that the U.S. will send another $500 million in “direct budgetary aid” to the...

President Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2023, unveiled yesterday, includes a stronger emphasis on deficit reduction, a shift...

President Joe Biden on Monday unveiled his budget for 2023, proposing a $5.8 trillion plan that also envisions reducing the federal deficit by about...

House Republicans hoping — or expecting — to win control of the chamber in November huddled at a retreat in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, this week to...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is bringing back the Build Back Better bill, sort of. The name may be dead — and many of the provisions of the bill passed by...