Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump signs executive orders and Congress works to pass a spending bill ...

Musk bragged about feeding the U.S. Agency for International Development “into the woodchipper.” Recommendations ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is stoking the 2028 flames, as he’s set to headline the New Hampshire Democrats’ McIntyre-Shaheen ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the ...

When a multi-million federal grant program for dairy businesses was shut down earlier this month in line with Elon Musk’s ...

Former President Donald Trump is pursuing his policy priorities on trade, the war in Ukraine and shrinking the federal ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the Democrats’ need for a Project 2029. Also: President Trump’s tariff pause; a Black ...

Conservatives have long talked about cutting government, but Republicans in Congress have shied away from approving deep reductions because of fear of how voters would react.

Funding for the federal government runs out at the end of Friday, and the race is on for Congress to avoid a shutdown.

The Democratic Party is taking advantage of Elon Musk’s low approval ratings to tie him to unpopular Trump cutbacks in ...

Donald Trump’s second presidency will take a novel path this week as he turns to Congress to enshrine part of his effort to ...