The Senate’s top Democrat scored one tiny, largely meaningless win: Using Senate procedure, he forced Republicans’ official ...

That cost jumps closer to $4 trillion once rising interest payment costs are taken into account, according to fiscal experts.

Good evening. The Senate's rules referee sent Republicans scrambling today by determining that critical elements of their big bill don't meet the strict rules surrounding the reconciliation ...

Good evening. President Donald Trump just announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran that he said he hopes will become permanent. That news comes after Iran launched a missile attack on the Al ...

Under that assumption, the JCT reported this weekend that the tax portions of the Republican megabill would cost just $442 ...

The sweeping Republican tax-and-spending bill that would deliver on much of President Donald Trump's agenda would increase ...

* Tweaks to the phaseout of clean energy tax credits. The Senate plan reportedly would allow more projects to take advantage of the tax credits, which were introduced as part of the Biden-era ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he ...