President Donald Trump’s proposal to hike military spending and drastically cut domestic funds for health care and social programs fueled Democratic attacks that the administration is out of step with Americans’ priorities ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
President Donald Trump’s proposal to hike military spending and drastically cut domestic funds for health care and social programs fueled Democratic attacks that the administration is out of step with Americans’ priorities ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
The Trump administration is moving to strip education requirements and create skills-based tests in hundreds of federal jobs as it seeks to reshape the civil service to be younger and more accessible to workers without a college degree.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s removal is raising concerns that her successor will escalate attempts to evade institutional norms and ethics to satisfy President Donald Trump’s expectations for running the Justice Department as an extension of the White House.
Anthropic PBC has formed a federal political action committee that will permit the artificial intelligence company to make campaign contributions to Washington lawmakers and preferred House and Senate candidates in the November midterm elections.
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The Trump Administration proposed a major boost to Defense Department spending in its fiscal 2027 budget request while calling for cuts to most non-defense federal agencies.
President Donald Trump’s proposal to hike military spending and drastically cut domestic funds for health care and social programs fueled Democratic attacks that the administration is out of step with Americans’ priorities ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
Georgia lawmakers closed out their session by approving bills to cut personal income taxes, and provide scaled-back property tax relief for homeowners, while maintaining a lucrative tax break for data centers in the state.
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The Justice Department agency tasked with protecting the federal judiciary asked Congress for money to hire dozens more law enforcement agents for protective details, as threats to judges and other public officials have heightened.
The Pentagon’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget blueprint is seeking 85
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify before two major Senate committees and one House committee later this month on the Health and Human Services Department’s budget request.
The Trump administration is setting up a renewed fight over the future of a Treasury Department office supporting community financial institutions even as it has failed to disburse around $1 billion available to the program.
US Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter said the Supreme Court put “little thought” into the implications of its recent decision absolving an internet service provider for not shuttering accounts of users who repeatedly pirated music.
Federal regulators escalated the legal fight over who should control the rapidly growing prediction market industry by suing states cracking down on the platforms, signaling a new front that could push the dispute toward the Supreme Court or prompt Congress to act.
Rahm Emanuel says Democrats ‘lost the American people’ on cultural issues -- but he knows how they can win them back in November.
Rahm Emanuel says Democrats ‘lost the American people’ on cultural issues -- but he knows how they can win them back in November.
The Homeland Security Department would receive roughly $48 billion in baseline discretionary funding for fiscal 2026 under a Senate-amended version of
Lawmakers in Washington are still pushing to enact a crypto regulatory structure this year, even as sharp disagreements between the crypto industry and banks stall negotiations.
Momentum is building in Congress to update the IRS’s treatment of digital assets, but just how generous and expansive those changes are for both crypto traders and industry players remain in flux.
Georgia lawmakers closed out their session by approving bills to cut personal income taxes, and provide scaled-back property tax relief for homeowners, while maintaining a lucrative tax break for data centers in the state.
The Energy Department dropped its appeal of a court decision blocking the agency’s limits on financial assistance for state energy programs.
The CFTC is asserting federal authority over fast-growing prediction markets with lawsuits against Illinois, Connecticut, and Arizona that challenge state regulation of the multibillion-dollar industry, J.J. McCorvey and Nicola M. White report.
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US Border Patrol agents didn’t comply with a court order while carrying out immigration stops and arrests in July at a Home Depot in Sacramento, a judge said.
The City of Dallas, having already defended two gun-related lawsuits from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), argued Thursday that a third case from the state over a ban on firearms in public spaces is likewise flawed.
