Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday that the House will be starting its summer break one day earlier than planned after legislative action in the chamber ground to ...

A House Appropriations subcommittee advanced a bill late Monday that would provide $9.5 billion for the IRS in fiscal year 2026 — a reduction of more than 20% from the current funding level of ...

Happy Tuesday! President Trump hosted Philippine President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. at the White House today and announced a new trade deal calling for 19% tariffs on goods from the ...

Happy Monday! Politico's Brian Faler noted today that tax experts are struggling with an issue that has at times bedeviled us, too: Just how to refer to the recently passed Republican tax cut law ...

The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the tax cut and policy bill signed into law by President Donald Trump earlier this month will increase the budget deficit by $3.4 trillion over 10 ...

The bottom line: Passage of the rescissions package is another win for Trump as he nears the six-month mark of his second term. Fiscal hawks in the GOP may celebrate the spending cuts codifying DOGE’s ...

In a worrying sign that higher tariffs may be starting to ripple through the economy, consumer prices rose at a faster pace in June than a month earlier, the Department of Labor announced Tuesday ...

The Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the massive reconciliation package that would deliver on much of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda, would add at least $3.3 ...

A new analysis of the Republican megabill currently under consideration in the Senate finds that it could be much less costly than previously estimated — as long as you’re willing to ignore ...

Good evening! On this date 95 years ago, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on thousands of imported goods in a bid to protect domestic jobs and ...

Happy Monday! As Congress returns to action this week, Senate Republicans will be looking to put their imprint on the budget reconciliation bill passed by the House. Lawmakers in the House ...