Senate Republicans are working to ensure a permanent extension of President Donald Trump’s first-term tax cuts as they consider the budget plan the House passed on Tuesday.  Senate Republicans argued the debt ceiling in the House budget is not high enough to allow for a permanent extension of the 2017 tax cuts set to expire at […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration is considering returning 20% of savings identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to Americans, echoing a proposal made on social media site X. Speaking at a meeting of global financiers and tech executives in Miami hosted by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Trump […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday the courts should let the Trump administration and Congress do their work as they continue efforts to root out waste in federal government spending. “It has taken this level of audit from effectively an outside auditor — that’s what DOGE and Elon [Musk] and the group really is — to be […]

A group of House Republicans asked federal courts on Monday to decide in favor of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, marking the latest move in a string of contentious legal fights over the matter. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and 16 other lawmakers filed amicus briefs in two of the birthright […]