Testifying before Congress Wednesday about President Donald Trump's 2026 budget request, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the mass firings occurring at the health ...

House Republicans took a couple of big steps forward on their sweeping, partisan budget bill on Wednesday via key committee votes that advanced both a package of tax cuts and some major Medicaid ...

House Republicans are entering what they hope is the final stretch of their race to pass their massive bill containing much of President Trump’s agenda, including tax changes that would cost a ...

Happy Tuesday! It's a big day for the Republican budget bill, so let's get to it. Republicans Plow Ahead on Trump's Big Bill House Republicans are entering what they hope is the final stretch of ...

Defying concerns about tariff-driven price increases, the 12-month inflation rate fell to 2.3% in April, the Labor Department announced Tuesday. The results were better than expected by a tenth of ...

Thanks to the annual surge in receipts as Americans pay their tax bills, the U.S. recorded a budget surplus of $258 billion in April. The surplus was about $48 billion larger than the monthly ...

Habemus papam! We have a new pope - and for the first time, he is American. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old who grew up in the Chicago area, was elected Thursday and took the name ...

The U.S. and China have agreed to sharply reduce their aggressive tariffs for 90 days as they seek ways to defuse the burgeoning trade war sparked by President Donald Trump. Following negotiations ...

Happy Monday! This is bound to be a wild week, as House Republicans scramble to finalize key elements of their big bill containing much of President Trump's domestic agenda. Trump is heading to ...

Happy Wednesday! The conclave to elect a new pope began today at the Vatican, and the first round of voting resulted in black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pontiff was chosen.

House Republicans on Monday released a multitrillion-dollar tax package that would make permanent many of the provisions in the 2017 tax bill while delivering on some of President Donald Trump's ...

As the Trump administration clashes with Congress over the power of the purse, top Republicans and Democratic appropriators are questioning why the White House took down a website tracking federal ...