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 ...

The combined Social Security trust funds are expected to be depleted by 2034, one year earlier than projected a year ago, according to a ...

The Senate version of Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill has drawn some stiff pushback from GOP lawmakers this week, raising concerns that the ...

Good Wednesday evening. The outlook for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds has gotten worse, the programs trustees said in annual reports released today. We've got details on that and ...

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

Good evening! On this date 95 years ago, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on thousands of imported goods in a bid to protect domestic jobs and ...

If the budgetary analyses of Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" have produced some less-than-beautiful projections, the polling numbers for ...

* 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 ...