Sen. Bernie Moreno wants senators to stay in session from the election through the end of the year without a break to pass a party-line budget bill with all their priorities if Republicans lose in the midterms next month.

The selection of Congress’ nonpartisan watchdog could become the next fight with the White House over who controls the power of the purse.

National press freedom groups are condemning a practice used by Gov. Wes Moore’s (D) administration in response to inquiries from Sinclair and Baltimore Sun journalists.

The Education Department is under fire for employing federal funding tactics that the Senate’s top Democratic appropriators say have put major restrictions on how many states, schools, and education organizations can benefit from the agency’s grant programs.

The Trump administration’s workforce cuts and grant cancellations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development led to confusing guidance, delayed approvals, and lost contacts for housing groups that work with the department, a government watchdog found.

Federal procurement spending is projected to cross the $1 trillion threshold for the first time, driven by President Donald Trump’s focus on national security and immigration enforcement, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis.

Josh and Austin’s mother Debra arrive in Beirut chasing the same man — someone who may hold the key to Austin’s fate. But he is not the only one who knows something, there are others. As Josh and Sara...

The impact of the 2025 tax law on swing-state Arizona will test how and whether GOP’s latest signature legislative accomplishment addressed voters’ primary concern: the rising prices of essentials like food, healthcare, and energy.

Sen. Chris Murphy said he’s prepared to draft legislative language requiring the Department of Defense to let lawmakers see military bases overseas after he says he was denied access to the largest US base in the Middle East.

Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel warned the idea of embracing faster economic growth as the solution for reining in the US federal debt — one being championed by Treasury Secretary…

The US Senate race in Maine is being impacted by the state’s rising housing costs and record-breaking heating bills, with home prices having jumped significantly since 2021.

President Donald Trump said he will “decide” yet whether to reimburse the federal government over campaign-style ads he recently cut promoting his presidency that were paid for using US government funds.

Republicans touted tax perks for small businesses and manufacturing at a field hearing in deep-red Tennessee ahead of the November midterm elections, even as the party faces stiff headwinds over soaring fuel costs and affordability.

The union representing Raytheon employees who are helping to replenish munitions expended in the US-Israel war with Iran are leveraging federal pressure on the defense contractor to push for better working conditions.

Franking privileges, and questions about them, are literally as old as the republic. But such spending has surged in recent Congresses, the lines between informing constituents and taxpayer-funded…

Sen. Ron Johnson blocked an attempt from Democrats to reverse the White House’s use of a loophole to unilaterally cut $810 million in congressionally approved funding.

Top Democratic Senate appropriators are raising questions over the use of Department of Homeland Security funding to produce political ads about President Donald Trump.

A health agency tasked with researching healthcare quality in the US has become embroiled in budget fights between the Trump administration and Congress.

Republicans in both chambers are rallying around President Donald Trump’s bid to freeze $810 million in federal funding, making it unlikely that Congress will prevent the cuts from taking effect.

An Education Department proposal that would make it easier for the agency to terminate federal funding has K-12 school leaders and advocates on edge after last year’s cuts left local school districts in disarray.

Josh uncovers a hidden world of secret negotiations, backchannels, and high-level talks. And, after years of failed promises, Austin’s mother Debra decides to go to Syria herself - alone. She believes...

A video appears online titled: “Austin Tice Still Alive”. It shows Austin bound, blindfolded and terrified, surrounded by armed men. But as Josh and Sara dig deeper, the story begins to change. They u...

Josh and Sara piece together Austin’s final route into Damascus. They find the farm, where he celebrated his 31st birthday — the last place his mother spoke to him. Then comes an unprecedented discove...

The Austin Tice files begin to give up their secrets. Josh and Sara uncover names, locations and new leads about what happened to Austin Tice. But to understand them, they have to go back to the start...

In the chaos after the Syrian regime’s downfall, the hunt for Austin Tice is on. Josh Baker and his fellow investigative journalist Sara Obeidat are in Damascus as bombs fall and gunfights break out. ...

Two taxpayer-funded video advertisements lauding President Donald Trump violate spending laws and government ethics rules, key congressional Democrats and a watchdog group warned.

Key lawmakers in both parties are looking to block President Donald Trump’s controversial moves to remake Washington landmarks, especially when it comes to keeping the Kennedy Center standing.

Lawmakers in both parties are telling the Trump administration not to use the waning days of the fiscal year to redirect federal funding from its intended purpose, or let money dry up entirely.

American journalist Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for more than a decade. Nobody knows what happened to him. Austin’s mother and even the president of the United States believe he is still…

The White House said in a legal filing that it has restored access for now to three media outlets that President Donald Trumphad banned last week.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a ban on journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.

An Education Department proposal that would make it easier for the agency to terminate and discontinue grants is intensifying worries of permanent instability in the federal government’s funding regime for K-12 and higher education.

The White House is dropping plans to hand its budget office more oversight of scientific research grants, according to Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced the establishment of a new task force Tuesday to further the administration’s goal to reduce spending across agencies on common goods and services.

The US deficit has reached $1.97 trillion and is on track to pass 6% of gross domestic product this fiscal year, the latest milestone in a remarkable deterioration of the federal budget. With national debt at a record $40 trillion, the feeling that the music must stop at some point has jittery market watchers zeroed in on a jittery bond market.

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The Trump administration is on track to let $725 million for bipartisan foreign policy initiatives expire at the end of the fiscal year, top Democrats warned on Tuesday.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) doubled down on her opposition to a proposal to change how medical research grants are reviewed in a letter to the heads of the National Institutes of Health and the Office of Management and Budget Tuesday.

The Pentagon has told Congress it has spent $43.6 billion on Iran operations so far.

A former senator who helped craft the original Affordable Care Act legislation said there are active discussions about addressing the healthcare premium tax credits before the end of the year.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration would try to plan to lower the federal budget deficit through Congress by the end of this year if Democrats are able to flip either chambers in the November midterm elections.

The White House budget office missed a self-imposed commitment to provide fresh debt projections to Congress.

A key Republican appropriator expects Congress to advance a short-term stopgap during the lame duck to avert a December shutdown, he told Bloomberg Government Friday.

Democrats should push to increase the pay of congressional staff to retain top talent on Capitol Hill if they retake the House majority in November, a senior lawmaker argued.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had a “productive, forward looking” conversation with centrist Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez about her controversial voting defection this week, he told reporters Thursday.