Work on the second reconciliation bill of the 119th Congress took a baby step forward Wednesday as the House and Senate Budget Committee chairs met to review plans for the first step in the process: ...

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee announced plans Wednesday to craft a major Republican-only bill that funds conservative priorities such as immigration enforcement, military ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said supplemental funding for the Pentagon due to strikes in Iran would “probably” be part of a second Republican-only reconciliation bill, and he is “glad” ...

Republicans are hitting the gas on a new party-line policy bill. They are fully aware it might end up in the ditch. The renewed push for budget reconciliation — spawned out of a Monday meeting between ...

Congressional Republicans will face an uphill battle to get a second reconciliation bill across the finish line before the 2026 midterm elections. Republicans have been weighing for months what they ...

It only took a five-week shutdown of a major Cabinet agency, but the GOP’s reconciliation dreams have new life this morning. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Jordain in an interview Monday night ...

Americans have been clear. They want secure elections, consistent standards, and confidence that only citizens are voting in federal elections. That mandate was not subtle in 2024. It was decisive.

Indigenous peoples are gaining territory and political and economic clout. Not everyone is ready for what that will mean. Over the past few years, First Nations in British Columbia have been on a ...

Everyone is talking about family estrangement, and for good reason. More people are reporting that they are choosing estrangement, as a national survey of adults in the United States found that 27% ...

President Trump last week suggested that a second reconciliation bill is not needed this year, but because the national debt is at $38 trillion and growing, policymakers need to act with a sense of ...

It is said that in politics, the best idea is a stolen one. Republicans are no dummies. They’re looking at what worked for Democrats last year as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani upset the primary ...

Congress’s largest conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee (RSC), unveiled the framework for what its leaders hope will be the starting point for the second reconciliation bill to pass the ...