A sizable tax break could be coming for tipped income, but the economic knock-on effects could be damaging.

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U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik said she was the “deciding vote” on a megabill that quadrupled the maximum state and local tax ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is letting his glitchy Grok AI chatbot sift through potentially sensitive ...

House Republicans are sending a clear and early warning to their Senate allies as the bill encompassing President Trump’s domestic priorities heads to the upper chamber: Don’t water it down. House ...

Republican budget hawks got steamrolled this week as the House passed a bill to advance President Trump’s agenda, sending ...

Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) says Republicans aren’t actually cutting anyone’s federal health or food benefits in President ...

Absent policy changes,” the fiscally hawkish Peter G. Peterson Foundation warned in a May 19 report, “… rising debt levels will have significant negative implications for the economy.” There are three ...

That’s just one benefit from the megabill that the House passed this week; downsides include, potentially, having less food.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill is a massive proposed tax and spending package loaded with initiatives that align with Trump’s agenda. As it’s currently written, the bill includes major changes to Medicaid ...

On Thursday morning, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved the "big, beautiful bill," the final vote tally came in at 215-214.