Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician and key G.O.P. vote, joined Democrats in aggressively questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick for health secretary. He did not say how he would vote ...

Trump's deadlines for tariffs, federal worker buyouts and RTO, federal funding freeze, TikTok, and more are coming up. Here's ...

Entering his last two years in office, DeSantis has started a rift with GOP leaders over immigration, possibly sparking a new era of oversight.

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

Richard Stern joins “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the players, procedures, and policy options on the table for budget ...

Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of ...

President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel — flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings that were ...

Several of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and key roles in his administration are facing confirmation hearings in the Senate today as the president continues to implement executive actions to ...

It’s one of the more obviously flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk: that government should be run like a business. Synergies! Streamlining! Above all, ...

The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear almost a week on, as officials and aid workers overseas try to make sense of ...