That cost jumps closer to $4 trillion once rising interest payment costs are taken into account, according to fiscal experts.

The Senate’s top Democrat scored one tiny, largely meaningless win: Using Senate procedure, he forced Republicans’ official ...

Happy July 1, or as it's known to some here in New York, Bobby Bonilla Day. In Washington, D.C, President Donald Trump's signature policy bill squeaked through the Senate by the slimmest of ...

Good evening. The Senate's rules referee sent Republicans scrambling today by determining that critical elements of their big bill don't meet the strict rules surrounding the reconciliation ...

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Under that assumption, the JCT reported this weekend that the tax portions of the Republican megabill would cost just $442 ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago.

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican ...

The massive reconciliation bill bearing much of President Trump's economic agenda would reward upper-income households while hurting low-income ones, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a ...