The United States federal government has spent more money than it has brought in nearly every year for the last half century ...

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, ...

Medicaid is more than a safety net. It is the source of health care for millions of the nation's children, and 60 percent of nursing home patients rely on Medicaid. That's right, Medicaid—not Medicare ...

The deficit for the first five months of fiscal 2025 came to $1.147 trillion, up 38%, or $318 billion, from a year earlier.

Lawmakers have taken Medicare off the table for cuts, which makes it impossible to reach $880 billion without cutting ...

Earlier Wednesday, the European Union announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on US industrial and farm products.

The IRS terminated about 7 percent of its roughly 100,000-person workforce in February, including at least 5,000 in the ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. While their target might seem misplaced, the logic is straightforward: the party liberals vote for is the one most likely to respond ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said on the Senate floor Wednesday that not enough Democrats support ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has done significant work in exposing wasteful government programs, but this has created a difficult situation for the Trump administration as they ...

The Georgia Democratic U.S. Senator voted to block a GOP measure aimed at banning transgender athletes from competing against women.