It has been a week since Congress passed the Republicans' major budget act. But what’s in it and how it will affect Americans' day-to-day lives remains a mystery to most. Congressional correspondent ...

The impact of the massive spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day is expected to filter down ...

"... this bill really could drive the next political cycle entirely on its own." —Lisa Desjardins, correspondent for PBS News ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting five West African leaders at a “multilateral lunch” as their region reels from the ...

President Trump’s signature second-term legislative agenda is hitting the courts. His “big, beautiful bill” is a boon for Second Amendment groups, who say it aids their quest to ...

Musk is betting big on a simple truth: that people are tired of politics as usual. He thinks they want disruption, the kind that doesn't just drain the swamp but uploads it to the cloud.

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