At the highest level, the U.S. government looks like a gerontocracy, with average ages around 60 in both the House and the ...

WASHINGTON — Louisiana Republicans rallied around House leadership Wednesday as some Republicans said they regretted their ...

Sullivan will replace interim Capitol Police Chief Sean Gallagher as the head of the department. The new leader comes after ...

Army leaders are defending spending as much as $45 million to add a parade to the service’s 250th birthday celebration on ...

Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com State lawmakers to Congress: Don’t stop us from regulating AI. As the Senate ...

The package would cancel $9.4 billion in funding that Congress previously appropriated for NPR, PBS and USAID.

The White House has sent its long-awaited spending cuts request to Congress as it seeks to formalize a slew of DOGE slashes ...

The foreign aid and public broadcasting cuts could be the first of several "rescission" requests sent to Congress in the ...

U.S. economic output will fall as a result of President Donald Trump's new tariffs on foreign goods that were in place as of ...

The House will vote on a slew of spending cuts implemented by the Department of Government Efficiency as early as next week, ...

Trump's Commerce Department reversed the Biden-era decision to prioritize the building of fiber networks in the BEAD program.

Four top Princeton University experts sketch a possible regional multinational nuclear consortium whose initial core partners ...