Rep. Thomas Massie, the lone Republican holdout on the government spending bill championed by President Donald Trump, has a ...

Trump economic staffers have gotten nervous, including people on the National Economic Council, who are worried that the ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...