Asked about the Biden-appointed former Social Security commissioner Martin O'Malley's recent prediction that a system collapse and an interruption of benefits could come within the next 30-90 days, ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia by ...

Speaker Mike Johnson has a new challenge as he works on the specifics of President Donald Trump’s agenda: navigating the competing assurances he made to various GOP factions.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Republican budget resolution, which passed the U.S. House 217-215 with one ...

Readers discuss cuts to Medicaid and other government programs. Also: Climate data; Trump and Kafka; the long view.

Physicians and hospitals may stop investing in telehealth services, especially in rural areas. Healthcare workers could face extra stress without telehealth as a staffing option. While long-term ...

U.S. senators pulled an all-nighter Thursday into Friday, debating dozens of amendments to the chamber’s budget resolution that ranged from access to Medicare and Medicaid to whether Congress should ...

An overwhelming majority of Republican Senators voted against Democratic amendments concerned with tax breaks for the wealthy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage early Friday, chugging through an all ...

Senate Republicans blocked nearly 30 amendments from Democrats intended to derail the upper chamber’s budget blueprint to ...

The US Senate wrangled long into the early hours of Friday morning on a Republican bill to advance US President Donald ...

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying ...