President Trump last week suggested that a second reconciliation bill is not needed this year, but because the national debt is at $38 trillion and growing, policymakers need to act with a sense of ...

Republican lawmakers are so deeply divided over how to fill the agenda for the rest of 2026 that they now believe it’s ...

Advancing any legislation through this process is now significantly more challenging given House Speaker Mike Johnson's ...

The rules for budget reconciliation are fairly straightforward, but it requires a trifecta to pull off," John Ferrari said.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled Tuesday that lawmakers could use the budget reconciliation process to advance a new ...

As the year closes, Republicans are looking to the past for another dance with a partisan exercise that tested the party’s unity and delivered President Donald Trump his crowning legislative ...

The president said Republicans have “gotten everything passed that we need,” but lawmakers aren’t so sure.

The recently approved budget reconciliation bill that significantly cuts funding for Medicaid will lead to strain on the state health care system, advocates warn. (Photo by Danielle E. Gaines/Maryland ...

The recently enacted budget reconciliation act is a major, and somewhat unique, Congressional accomplishment that is good for the nation’s security.[i] While there is room for criticism of specific ...

Defense budget expert, Todd Harrison, of the American Enterprise Institute, lays out a clear-eyed explanation of how the Pentagon is funding its operations—and why the current approach may be setting ...