White House budget director Russell Vought told House lawmakers on Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn’t yet have a “ballpark” estimate of how much supplemental funding it will seek for the ...

President Trump wants to increase defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal year 2027, for a total of $1.5 trillion, according to his budget request released Friday. At the same ...

The International Monetary Fund said Thursday that it expects to lower its growth projections for the global economy this year due to the war in the Middle East. IMF Managing Director Kristalina ...

Gallup says the share of people who now call their taxes too high is well above the roughly 50% average seen in its surveys in the early 2000s, following President George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts. But ...

Republican lawmakers are considering cuts in healthcare spending to help pay for the war against Iran, Axios reported Monday. With the Department of Defense reportedly seeking upwards of $200 billion ...

It looks like the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security will continue at least until next week, and probably longer. Early Thursday morning, the Senate sent its bipartisan DHS funding bill ...

President Trump said in a social media post Tuesday evening that he had agreed to a Pakistani proposal for a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran. The apparent deal, which the president said is ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against President Trump’s effort to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. In an executive order last May, Trump halted ...

Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans on Friday rejected a Senate-passed plan to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, delivering a stunning rebuke of a bipartisan bill to end the six ...

Although President Trump has plenty on his plate these days, he always seems to find the time to discuss a favorite topic: his plan to build a big, beautiful ballroom next to the White House, using ...

Republican leaders in Congress said Wednesday that they have agreed to move ahead on a Senate bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...