The bill to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed over the objections of Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch’s power of the purse.

Trump's $9 billion rescissions package is advancing, despite a trio of Republican defections. It targets foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.

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.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voting in a dramatic late Saturday session narrowly cleared a key procedural step as they race to advance President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts ... passage” of the bill that “implements ...

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

The Senate narrowly approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion from the federal budget. The final vote on Thursday morning was 51-48. Sens. Susan Collins, R.-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R.-Alaska,