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Byline: Jacob Bogage Republican plans to pass a massive new tax cut in the early days of President-elect Donald Trump's second term are running into a major obstacle: the price [...]

Two bills on pediatric cancer research and a football stadium site had been left out of the main spending package, but passed early Saturday as separate legislation. After a tumultuous [...]

The president-elect weighed in against the huge spending package after Elon Musk had spent the day warning Republicans not to support it. The blowup left the compromise on life support. [...]

The Republican speaker held on to control of the House, but will preside over an even smaller majority at a time when President-elect Donald J. Trump will need his help [...]

Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017. What counts as a tax cut? [...]

The bill averts a campaign-season shutdown but ensures another spending fight in Congress during its lame-duck session in December. President Biden signed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that averts [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House is poised to approve a stopgap spending bill Wednesday and send a $231 million infusion to the Secret Service, setting the stage for Congress to [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The Republican-controlled House is on the verge this week of defying both former president Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a government shutdown fight [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor The House on Wednesday appeared poised to reject Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to fund the government for six months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching [...]

The speaker's first effort to avert a government shutdown ran into a buzz saw of opposition from both far-right and mainstream Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson's initial plan to avert a [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) believes there is a simple answer to the question of why House Democrats are more effective at working together than members of his [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House approved a $1.2 trillion spending package Friday hours before a midnight government shutdown deadline, pressing the Senate against a ticking clock to pass the measure [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House approved a $1.2 trillion spending package Friday, hours before a midnight government shutdown deadline - forcing the Senate up against a ticking clock to take [...]

The bipartisan bill emerged one day before the federal funding deadline, and it was not clear whether Congress could complete it in time to avoid a partial shutdown after midnight [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Congress is staring down a fast-approaching government shutdown deadline, as lawmakers prepare to vote Friday morning on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending package to fund the federal [...]

Byline: Maegan Vazquez In a deeply polarized election year, President Biden and fellow Democrats wasted little time lambasting a budget proposal from a large group of House Republicans that would, [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Congressional leaders unveiled new federal spending legislation Thursday that would raise military pay, eliminate U.S. funding for the U.N. relief agency in Palestine and bolster security at [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler âThe budget reduces the deficit by about $3 trillion by making our tax code fairer.â - White House budget director Shalanda Young, in remarks to reporters, March [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage President Biden laid out an election-year blueprint Monday for sweeping new federal spending to lower consumer costs for health care, child care and housing - and enough [...]

The budget, which would cut the deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, reinforces Biden's efforts to counter Republican tax proposals that Democrats deride as giveaways to the wealthy. [...]

The president's $7.3 trillion budget proposal for the next fiscal year includes about $3 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, largely from raising taxes on high earners and corporations. [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro, Jacob Bogage Congressional appropriators on Sunday released half a dozen bills that, if passed this week, would keep six agencies - about 40 percent of the government [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Congress passed legislation Thursday to prevent a looming partial government shutdown, extending funding for federal agencies later into March - and teeing up another mad scramble over [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Lawmakers planned to move quickly Thursday to pass yet another short-term government spending bill, delaying a shutdown deadline past the weekend to buy more time to finish [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House on Thursday approved legislation to extend the expiration date for federal funding later into March, sending the measure to prevent a partial government shutdown that [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor Congressional leaders agreed to a funding deal Wednesday that would prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend, extending the expiration dates for federal finances until [...]

President Biden plans to discuss the urgency of legislation to keep federal funding going past midnight on Friday. President Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White [...]

With a tiny margin in the House, right-wing rebels' defections and Democratic control of the Senate and White House, the G.O.P. has relied on Democrats to head off calamity, sapping [...]

The legislation will fund agencies until early March as Congress continues to negotiate funding for the government through the fall. President Biden signed legislation on Friday averting a partial government [...]

The House speaker is facing intense pressure from far-right Republicans to abandon the agreement he struck with Democrats to keep the government from partially shutting down next week. Speaker Mike [...]

The Agriculture Department has warned that millions of eligible pregnant and postpartum women and their children could risk missing out on nutrition assistance if Congress does not increase funding. For [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein The U.S. national debt has eclipsed $34 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department said Tuesday, as persistently large annual deficits continue to add to the [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan, Siobhán O'Grady and Emily Rauhala KYIV - For months, even as progress stalled on the battlefield, President Biden has insisted that Washington will stand by Ukraine 'for [...]

Byline: Liz Goodwin and Marianna Sotomayor After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) crossed the Capitol to meet with Senate Republicans for the first time over lunch Wednesday, senators poured out [...]