Billionaire Elon Musk is at the center of cutting federal spending for Donald Trump, but the president urged him to use a scalpel rather than hatchet.

The threat of a government shutdown is looming over Washington yet again. Here's what to know ahead of potential votes.

The Department of Health and Human Services is offering $25,000 buyouts to some 80,000 employees as part of the Trump ...

The Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives plan to vote on Tuesday on a six-month stopgap funding bill to ...

Members of the Senate voted 66-30 last week to let her nomination come to the Senate floor without facing a filibuster. Fifteen Democrats voted for letting the nomination come to the floor, and Sen.

Congressman Jimmy Panetta held a town hall meeting to address the rising concerns of possible cuts to Medicaid.

Ron Brownstein, a CNN political analyst, said Monday on the network that the Democratic Party's image was the weakest its ...

House Democrats are seizing on concerns over Medicaid and Medicare as a way to oppose Republicans' plan to fund the ...

Trump is soft-launching a recession. The president has now twice refused to rule out a recession in the wake of his own ...

Republicans released a detailed spending bill ahead of a deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown on March 14.

Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and ...

Following a disastrous meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy late last month, the White House ordered a pause ...