A top GOP senator Sunday urged Republican leaders to get the party’s “free-range chickens” to push through a proof-of-citizenship voting bill — which President Trump vowed to thwart because it is too ...

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 ...

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 ...

DORAL, Fla. — For House Speaker Mike Johnson, reconciliation 2.0 may not be as "big" but it will be "just as beautiful." Why it matters: Some House Republicans are all in on trying to muscle through ...

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

The budget reconciliation process resulting in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was enacted on July 4, 2025, contains many significant changes to the Medicaid program. Many of the changes, such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled Tuesday that lawmakers could use the budget reconciliation process to advance a new retirement proposal introduced by President Trump during his State of the ...

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 ...