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 ...

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

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law one year ago today, pushing $1.9 trillion of relief sp ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

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