As Senate Republicans go deep into reconciliation bill-drafting mode, Medicare is increasingly coming up as a potential pay-for.

President Donald Trump’s administration insists that the nearly 225-year-old entity across the street from the Capitol is under his direction.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an emailed statement that the Trump administration was already “illegally impounding additional funds,” as withholding money has “always been illegal without explicit Congressional approval.”

A controversial ban on state AI regulations in the House-passed "big, beautiful" measure was left out of the Senate Commerce Committee’s text.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told a House committee on Wednesday that the Trump administration could send more requests to claw back already appropriated money if its first attempt is successful.

So unfortunately, this is an institution in our country that has become partisan and political.” We have a high bar when it comes to fact-checking White House press secretaries. They are supposed to spin,

The Congressional Budget Office estimates an increase of 10.9 million people without health insurance under President Donald Trump’s big bill, including 1.4 million who are in the country without legal status in state-funded programs.

Republicans are using Congress’s official budget scorer as a whipping boy, as they argue a major package of President Trump’s tax priorities is costless, despite multiple projections placing