Last month, following outrage over a transgender athlete who won a statewide high school pole vault event, Trump singled out ...

Lawmakers warn that GOP budget cuts could severely impact food assistance for children, with potential SNAP cuts affecting ...

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The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a stopgap bill to keep federal agencies funded past ...

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, now the ...

After approval of universal school choice in Tennessee, Texas & South Carolina lawmakers seek to make sure their constituents ...

Republicans currently hold a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has indicated that he won’t vote to ...

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

The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate, whose votes will be needed in order to avoid a shutdown. The ...

The Senate voted on a narrower budget bill that is less likely to affect Medicaid, but the chamber will have to reach an agreement with the House later in the year.

In the first two months of Donald Trump’s second term as president, Americans have gotten a look into the massive amounts of ...

University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll illustrated, not for the first time, that the latest battle in Texas Republican leaders’ forever war on property taxes is fueled in part by many voters’ ...