If you only got your news from the Democratic Party’s corporate wing, you’d be excused for thinking that not much of consequence was happening in the world. Centrist groups like Third Way and ...

Republicans are hitting the gas on a new party-line policy bill. They are fully aware it might end up in the ditch. The renewed push for budget reconciliation — spawned out of a Monday meeting between ...

Americans have been clear. They want secure elections, consistent standards, and confidence that only citizens are voting in federal elections. That mandate was not subtle in 2024. It was decisive.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said supplemental funding for the Pentagon due to strikes in Iran would “probably” be part of a second Republican-only reconciliation bill, and he is “glad” ...

But the concession — that Republicans would embark on a monthslong process to pass a narrow version of the bill through reconciliation — has frustrated Republicans who believe the process would doom ...

Everyone is talking about family estrangement, and for good reason. More people are reporting that they are choosing estrangement, as a national survey of adults in the United States found that 27% ...

It only took a five-week shutdown of a major Cabinet agency, but the GOP’s reconciliation dreams have new life this morning. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Jordain in an interview Monday night ...

Congressional Republicans are revisiting the same intraparty tensions that turned passage of last year’s “big, beautiful bill” into a drawn-out and politically damaging saga. They are moving ahead ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of President Trump’s strongest allies on Capitol Hill, is bashing a proposal that some GOP colleagues are floating to reopen the Department of Homeland Security by ...

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee announced plans Wednesday to craft a major Republican-only bill that funds conservative priorities such as immigration enforcement, military ...

For Senate leaders, pursuing another budget reconciliation bill this year was once considered a no-go. But in a matter of days, it’s become a distinct possibility. Using the often arduous budgetary ...