Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that Congress would have to authorize the $2,000 checks President Trump proposes to send to most Americans. With the White House focusing on questions of ...

Happy Monday! House lawmakers are back for their first full workweek in the Capitol since mid-September. Members are expected to vote tomorrow on a bill requiring the release of more files related to ...

Good evening. With the government shutdown over, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded back into the headlines. Following the release of new emails that shed more light on the relationship between ...

On Day 29 of the government shutdown, tempers flared as Republican and Democratic leaders traded accusations and blame over the looming lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits that ...

Good evening. We've got updates on some legal challenges to President Trump's power on tariffs and federal funding, plus the latest on this month's shutdown threat and details about today's massive ...

The U.S. labor market added 911,000 fewer jobs from April 2024 to March 2025 than previously estimated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Tuesday. The preliminary revision — the largest such ...

President Trump on Monday gave U.S. and Chinese negotiators another 90 days to reach an agreement on trade, delaying a set of sky-high tariffs that threaten to upend commerce between the world’s two ...

Happy Tuesday! President Donald Trump told CNBC today that he has narrowed down his list of potential successors to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to four candidates, including Kevin Hassett, ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...

A new analysis of the Republican megabill currently under consideration in the Senate finds that it could be much less costly than previously estimated — as long as you’re willing to ignore the cost ...

The Social Security system is seeing a record number of filings for benefits this year, and experts say it’s at least in part a sign of growing concern over the stability of the retirement program. In ...

Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his signature on what he heralded as “a realistic tax law—which will tax all unreasonable profits, both individual and corporate.” ...