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

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

Happy Monday! Now that President Donald Trump has signed into law his so-called big, beautiful bill, the fiscal focus shifts to tariffs, the spending bills needed to avoid a government shutdown ...

President Trump on Monday stepped up his attacks on the Federal Reserve and Chairman Jerome Powell. Trump sent a letter to Powell showing interest rates around the world and urging him to lower U ...

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The fate of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" remains uncertain this evening, but the process to pass it is unquestionably ugly. The Senate began a lengthy vote-a-rama Monday morning ...

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 ...

Western North Dakota is the center of a major oil boom and has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Here are the highest-paying jobs in the area.

The United States established the Civil Service 142 years ago, in response to the massive corruption that followed from the previous “spoils system” in Washington DC. Prior to that, all ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons ...