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The Senate Republican tax bill speeding to passage includes the biggest reduction of funding for the federal safety net since at least the 1...

The White House wants more exports and fewer imports. But bigger budget deficits typically mean the opposite.

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged familie...

The Senate is on the verge of advancing Trump’s priorities, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill. Here’s how it could change the federal govern...

An experiment in Lahaina, Maui, is providing prefabricated homes to those affected by the wildfires almost two years ago.

Traditional estimates say that Trump’s tax package will add about $4 trillion to the national debt. Senate Republicans have slashed that num...

Lawmakers are hoping to push the president’s massive tax and immigration agenda through a high-wire procedural vote.

The benchmark index climbed 0.5 percent, topping the previous high set in February.

Republicans are haggling over how to cut Medicaid as Trump warns lawmakers not to be “grandstanders.”

The challengers argued that members of the Preventive Services Task Force were improperly appointed because they were not approved by the Se...

As the U.S. and China finalized a trade agreement, Beijing pitched itself at the “Summer Davos” summit as an antidote to global economic “co...

Moving back home to save money doesn’t mean you failed. As my kids found out, it can be help you build some financial momentum before you j...

The fraud scheme, one of the largest such busts in U.S. history, involved billions of dollars in false health-care claims and stolen persona...

A move by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would open up a new, and untested, path to getting home loans in the midst of an affordability crisis.

Investigators have begun analyzing data from the black boxes recovered from the Air India Boeing 787 jet that crashed earlier this month, ki...

Rick Perry’s sprawling proposal for four nuclear reactors and 18 million square feet of datacenter buildings near Amarillo aims to “Make Ame...

The Senate has overhauled President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, sparking serious concerns over federal spending and social progra...

Ruling says Medicaid patients cannot sue to get non-abortion health care from Planned Parenthood if states have cut off government funding f...

Nestlé and Conagra said they would stop using FD&C colors in products, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has urged the industry to s...

A perfect storm has shrunk the early-career job market, with new grads facing a hiring pullback amid AI disruption and political and economi...

When President Donald Trump’s historically high tariffs on China hit, they disrupted the supply chain and the flow of shipments to U.S. West...

More than one-quarter of the agency’s workers have left in the past three months, raising the likelihood of service gaps and processing dela...

In the House version of the legislation, gym access would qualify as a medical expense. But the proposal is on the chopping block in the cur...

Internal dissent among federal employees is coming to the surface as President Trump’s budget chief aims to rebalance spending authority.

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