* Tweaks to the phaseout of clean energy tax credits. The Senate plan reportedly would allow more projects to take advantage ...

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 ...

The House Appropriations Committee on Monday released Republicans’ proposed defense spending bill for 2026, moving ahead in the absence of a detailed budget request from the White House.

President Donald Trump on Monday highlighted a proposal for a new, federally funded benefit that would automatically create investment accounts for every baby born in the U.S. over the four years ...

Happy Monday! The House and Senate are both busy with fiscal bills this week. Republicans in the lower chamber are preparing to vote on a $9.4 billion White House package of DOGE cuts to foreign ...

Good Wednesday evening. The outlook for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds has gotten worse, the programs trustees said in annual reports released today. We've got details on that and more.

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system ...

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 ...

As Republicans prepare to extend the 2017 Trump-era tax cuts that are currently scheduled to expire at the end of the year — or make them permanent — a new analysis by the Treasury Department ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons.

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he ...