But the spending freeze – along with other key moves early in this presidency, including the firing of Justice Department prosecutors and a bid to repeal birthright citizenship – also reflects Trump’s ...

The framers stated clearly that Congress, not the president, should hold the power of the purse. Trump has tried this power ...

WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday — a strict border measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student whose murder last ...

Donald Trump has already signed dozens of executive orders. VERIFY explains the difference between EOs and acts of Congress.

The House of Representatives passed a Senate-revised version of the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, sending the first piece of ...

President Trump kicked off his grand return to the Oval Office by signing an avalanche of executive orders on Monday that ...

The Senate on Monday passed the Laken Riley Act, making the immigration-related bill the first piece of legislation to make ...

The remarks were largely a symbolic gesture of support for a century-long campaign to enshrine gender equality in the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was sponsored with bipartisan support, passed through Congress at the end of December, with a 76-20 vote in the Senate. The law has received mixed responses ...

The bill passed the House in the last Congress in April 2023 with no Democratic support and did not advance in the Senate, which at the time was controlled by Democrats. Republicans now hold the ...

During the last session of Congress, House Republicans passed the bill by a vote of 219 to 203 down strict party lines, but it was not taken up by the Democratic-led Senate. Now, Republican are ...

In 2017, Congress passed the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act late in the year, meaning that manufacturers’ investment decisions based on the law could not bear fruit until 2018 at the earliest ...