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 ...

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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 ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago.

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 ...

President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law one year ago today, pushing $1.9 trillion of relief sp ...