A shutdown would temporarily give the executive branch even broader powers over what government services are deemed "essential." ...

House and Senate Democrats on their chambers’ appropriations committees have been saying for weeks that they want to ...

The Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 along party lines to put the former FDIC board member in charge of the CFPB despite ...

(CNN) — Russell Vought took over as acting director of the ... came a day after he was confirmed by the US Senate to lead the Office of Management and Budget. The source told CNN that DOGE ...

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy could not: Walk the plank on one of Washington’s dreaded short-term spending ...

U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper hosted a press briefing in the past few days, allowing Colorado journalists access to his ...

The nominations come days after the Department of Government Efficiency tried to take over both federal aid agencies.

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director Thursday night, putting an official who planned the zealous expansion of President Donald Trump's power into one ...

Vought often advanced a maximalist approach to conservative policy goals. After leaving the first Trump administration, he founded the Center for Renewing America, among a constellation of ...