WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson and his chief lieutenant, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both of whom favor ...

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" failed to pass the House Budget Committee on Friday, in what appears to be a ...

House Freedom Caucus members threw some sand in the gears by blocking the reconciliation bill and demanding deeper spending ...

Maryland taxpayers may be wondering what’s at stake for their wallets as President Donald Trump’s tax bill advances through ...

The sweeping Republican mega-bill hit a major road block, threatening to derail huge parts of Trump's second-term agenda ...

Lawmakers from the president's own party joined all Democrats to reject a key domestic bill, demanding deeper budget cuts.

Conservatives are holding out for steeper cuts to Medicaid and other programs to help offset the costs of the tax breaks. But ...

The hard-right lawmakers are insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid and the Biden-era green energy tax breaks, among ...

WASHINGTON ― Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” went down in a big, ugly flop as conservatives voted against the measure in ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that, like RFK Jr., dutifully puts on its blue jeans and ...