President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration has approved $9 billion in student loan forgiveness affecting 125,000 borrowers. The...

The full extent of the fallout from the political earthquake that was the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy won’t be clear for some time, but the...

It took Kevin McCarthy 15 votes to win the House speakership in January, but just one vote to lose his hold on the office 10 months later. Thanks to...

The White House has requested $24 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine, on top of the more than $100 billion in economic and security assistance...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s partisan short-term spending bill failed Friday afternoon as 21 hard-right Republicans voted against their leader’s...

We’re just two days away from a likely government shutdown that would leave millions of federal employees, including military service members, without...

Let’s cut right to the chase: Congress is still on a seemingly inexorable march toward a government shutdown in less than four days. Yes, the Senate...

As lawmakers try to map a route out of the mess they’ve made for themselves, Senate negotiators on Tuesday unveiled a bipartisan plan to fend off a...

Moody’s Investors Service warned Monday that a government shutdown would be seen negatively by the credit rating agency. Of the three major ratings...

It’s not looking good for avoiding a shutdown. Congress doesn’t return to Washington until Tuesday evening, leaving precious little time to pass a...