The House on Wednesday passed a sweeping spending package to reopen the government, setting the stage to end a marathon shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — that churned economic turmoil around ...

Nov 11 (Reuters) - Payments firm BILL Holdings (BILL.N), opens new tab is exploring a sale, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as it faces pressure from activist investors.

The provision allows senators to sue over their subpoenaed phone records. Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday the House will hold a standalone vote next week on stripping out a Senate provision in the ...

Tax and estate consultant Gary Phillips, based in New York, says as tax season approaches, the mood is upbeat among his clients. The reason? The extension of a series of tax breaks approved by the ...

Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted for the 13th time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, despite a plea this week by the nation’s largest federal workers union to end the ...

President Donald Trump indicated some furloughed federal workers may not be paid, garnering pushback from congressional Democrats. Photo from the White House President Donald Trump’s administration ...

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bipartisan bill to raise the salaries of California firefighters nine months after the most expensive inferno in state history incinerated Los Angeles. On Friday, ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Friday to block dueling Republican and Democratic proposals to keep the federal government funded on a short-term basis, raising the chances of a shutdown at the end of ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Corrections & Clarifications: In an earlier version of this story, the Congressional Budget Office projection of how many Americans will lose health insurance was not correct. President Donald Trump’s ...

President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is fueling a renaissance in American business competitiveness. Thanks to the landmark bill’s tax reforms — including full expensing for new domestic ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In July 2025, Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) through a process known as reconciliation, which expedites ...