Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the Education ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is holding a press conference Thursday morning, days after Democrats showed their disdain for President Trump’s executive actions in various ...

GOP senators told Musk about an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his effort and enshrine the cuts into ...

Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson aims to hold a vote on Tuesday on a bill to fund the government ...

At a Devex Pro briefing, U.S. Rep. Ami Bera talks about the need to preserve USAID in some form and make the case to the ...

But Trump — and, by extension, Johnson — has a new ally in the usual Republican intramural sniping: the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), whose bull-in-a-china shop approach to shrinking ...

With days until funding expires, an agreement wouldn’t necessarily eliminate the risk of a government shutdown or thwart a ...

House debate over a bill that would provide care for laid-off federal workers devolved Wednesday into a partisan squabble ...

By contrast, Trump is using a campaign ostensibly against “unelected bureaucrats” to slash programs that help veterans, farmers, poor people and the elderly. Abroad, he is backing away from the ...

Health care advocates, hospital officials and people who rely on Medicaid for their medical coverage warned state lawmakers Wednesday of consequences that could result from proposed cuts in federal ...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is predicting Republicans will be unified and able to pass a stopgap spending measure, known ...

Senate Democrats are indicating they won't tank a short-term government funding package, barring any eleventh-hour GOP ...