Federal Government

After a week of high-stakes votes and intraparty wrangling, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a massive reconciliation bill that overhauls tax policy, slashes spending on social safety nets, and expands funding for defense and border enforcement. The legislation passed the Senate by a 51–50 ...

Senate Republicans narrowly voted 51–49 to advance debate on a sweeping domestic policy bill championed by President Trump, even as a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate revealed the legislation would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade — and result in 11.8 m...

Senate Republicans have released a sweeping 549-page proposal that would make deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed version of the GOP’s marquee legislative package, intensifying internal divisions as lawmakers race to meet a July 4 deadline. The Senate Finance Committee’s draft would...

An estimated 70,000 people filled Seattle streets Saturday for the “No Kings” protest, marching from Cal Anderson Park to Seattle Center in one of the city’s largest demonstrations in recent history. The protest was part of a nationwide day of action opposing President Donald Trump’s mili...