Congress approves a $9 billion spending cut targeting public broadcasting and foreign aid, overcoming GOP divisions despite the cuts making up a small share of the budget.

Mr. President, this is the gavel used to enact the ‘big, beautiful bill,’” House Speaker Mike Johnson said at a White House signing ceremony on the Fourth of July. Handing over the gavel delighted President Donald Trump who,

A drama-filled week in DC saw Democrats accuse Republicans ceding Congress' power to Trump and a curveball involving Jeffrey Epstein.

House conservatives are drawing battle lines in the burgeoning showdown over President Donald Trump's spending cuts request.

Maybe he truly hates social spending. Maybe he’s promised clawbacks to fiscal hawks. Maybe he wants Democrats to shut down the government. Stay tuned.

The Senate burns the midnight oil hoping to pass Trump’s spending agenda, the man accused of fatally stabbing four college students in Idaho appears to have accepted a plea deal, and the city of Los Angeles is again engrossed in a legal battle over immigration.

A half century of US federal funding for public television and radio came crashing to an end as the House approved a $9 billion package of spending cuts inspired by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency task force.

Congress had until the end of day on Friday to pass the rescissions request, or the funding would have had to be spent as originally intended.