Why Mike Johnson will struggle to keep his promises
Speaker Mike Johnson scored a big win last week by advancing his budget plan for President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic ...
Social Security Update: Mike Johnson Explains Elon Musk's and GOP's Goals
The House speaker said the GOP, alongside Musk, is working to eliminate government inefficiencies and improve the country's ...
GOP chairmen urge leader to battle House on budget, spending strategy
Senate Republican committee chairs delivered a blunt message to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) last week that ...
Republican Johnson wants 'clean' US funding measure, wait on spending cuts
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday that he wants to pass a "clean" stopgap funding measure to keep federal ...
Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch
March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional Republicans about ...
The accounting maneuver that could make the cost of extending Trump's tax cuts look like zero
A controversial budget tactic is gaining steam on Capitol Hill that would make Donald Trump's first-term tax cuts permanent while making room for additional tax break pledges he made on the campaign ...
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GOP tax cut plans may depend on savings from Medicaid. What is it and who relies on it?
Medicaid explainer: who relies on the program, what exactly is known about fraud and how the federal government splits the ...
Speaker Johnson says Zelenskyy may have to resign after fiery Oval Office meeting
Speaker Johnson on Sunday said that Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy may need to resign for Ukraine to continue ...
Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump excludes low-value shipments from looming tariffs
President Donald Trump and members of his second administration are continuing their effort to swiftly remodel the federal ...
Trump and Reagan both promised to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy. Only one had a plan.
More than four decades apart, the two Republicans campaigned on similar anti-big government themes. Once in office, they ...
Trump’s speech to Congress comes as he wields vast power almost daring lawmakers, courts to stop him
President Donald Trump arrives this week on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech to Congress, a coequal branch of government he ...
Look right, look left: Trump will survey a landscape transformed in speech to Congress
Was it just a year ago that Joe Biden was delivering the State of the Union? This year's audience will display a different ...