The federal budget debate has big implications for the economy. Businesses are betting that tax cuts will be extended and the ...

Data analyst Leland Dudek was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with the U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s ...

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal ...

Trump, meanwhile, attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while speaking at his Mar-a-Lago home as U.S. officials ...

A fierce debate about the future of Medicaid is currently underway in Congress. The public health insurance program covers 1 ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the ...

Good morning and welcome to our Under the Dome Sunday newsletter, which focuses on new Gov. Josh Stein. I’m Dawn Vaughan, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. Stein met with U.S. Sens. Thom ...

Elon Musk, required by federal law to file financial disclosures as he rampages across government, doesn't want anybody else ...

Democrats who lead both chambers warned that the budget might need to be readdressed in the coming weeks, pending potential cuts to federal spending.

Republicans in Congress are proposing deep cuts to Medicaid, a program covering 79 million Americans, to fund Trump's tax ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he appreciates consensus for tax relief, but says it should take a different form. He says he ...

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