U.S. Congress

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...

Senate Republicans have revived a controversial plan to sell off up to 3.3 million acres of federal land in 11 Western states, including Washington, as part of a sweeping tax and spending bill backed by President Trump. The proposal, added by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to the Senate version of the “On...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Republican tax and spending bill passed last month would add $2.4 trillion to federal deficits over the next decade. The bill, narrowly approved by the House on May 22, combines $3.7 trillion in tax cuts with $1.3 trillion in spending redu...