John Kennedy (R-LA) is urging Republicans to pursue a dramatic procedural shift to pass the SAVE America Act — by using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration will soon ask for Iran war funding, and some Republicans don’t want to use the party-line budget ...

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 ...

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 ...

House Republicans are steaming ahead with their megabill containing the bulk of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. As of Tuesday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is hoping to get the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington, D.C., has a language all its own: Words that mean a lot there but nowhere else. One of those is reconciliation. CBS ...

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 ...

Last week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee marked up legislation that would significantly affect the Medicaid program, including changes to state Medicaid financing mechanisms, state directed ...

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 ...