Category: Congress

Letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sent May 9, 2021, urging congressional leaders to raise the federal debt ceiling by mid-July.

The date could become the new, de facto deadline for congressional Republicans to pass their megabill.

The fate of hundreds of billions’ worth of clean energy tax credits is among the last unresolved big-ticket items Republicans are hashing out before a series of planned committee...

The brutal political realities of the House GOP are about to upend President Donald Trump’s tax pledges. A permanent extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts is under threat, as...

Trump endorsed the battleground House Republican for reelection. Lawler doesn’t think it warns him off a bid for governor.

On the chopping block could be a litany of Trump demands, including a permanent extension of the tax cuts passed during his first term.

President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Thursday, according to a library spokesperson and an email obtained by POLITICO. “Carla, On behalf of President Donald J. Trump,...

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) is set to meet Friday with President Donald Trump at the White House with the tax portion of the GOP megabill...

Senate Democrats are asking Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul to convene a hearing on President Donald Trump’s deportation policies, including claims that administration officials are...

All Democrats and three Republicans — including Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Josh Hawley of Missouri — voted against the effort.