Republicans are counting on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to be a winner with voters, while Democrats hope ...

Professional poker players and sports bettors, and a handful of members of Congress, are demanding a change to the massive ...

The GOP deficit hawk is dead, after promising for years to rein in the country’s spiraling debt and deficits, but then voting last week to do the opposite.

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After passage of his One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Donald Trump is on something of a roll — and Republicans are ...

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Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

As a democracy, it often takes us an agonizingly long time to come to grips with these epic challenges. As Winston Churchill, perhaps apocryphally, quipped, “Americans will always do the right thing ...

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is now law. It will change Medicaid work requirements and limit federal funding for healthcare and hospitals.

Republicans pass two make-or-break tests here: One of party discipline, the other of political principles.