While Government fails to give timeline for raising defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP, military sources say figure not enough ...

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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton ...

Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...

Douglas Holtz-Eakin: “There is nearly universal agreement that those tariffs will be upward pressure on costs and consumers will ultimately pay them” ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

The Republican-led Budget Committee approved a sweeping proposal to unlock Trump's agenda, sending it to the full House.

As Democrats ponder how best to position themselves for a looming spending confrontation, they are finding novel ways to put ...

President Trump attempted during his campaign to distance himself from the right-wing blueprint to overhaul the federal ...

The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...

The deal reflects a push-and-pull between House Republicans' Freedom Caucus, which has been loath to increase the size of the federal deficit, and House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., who ...

Thousands of supporters gathered in downtown Beirut Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of former Lebanese Prime ...