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The House budget still cuts science at NASA, but not as deeply as the White House sought. ...
The House is making a push to formally conference government funding legislation for fiscal 2026 with the Senate, breaking with recent norms as Congress stares down a Sept. 30 deadline to prevent a go...
Lawmakers are laying the groundwork for making sure the other party gets the blame in the event of a government shutdown at the end of the month. As both sides work out a game plan for funding the gov...
Recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Medicare spending would see steep cuts over roughly the next decade absent congressional action, following passage of President Trum...
A federal appeals court on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to restore a public database showing how federal funding is apportioned. The administration disabled the database in March as it s...
Exclusive: The Guardian has been told that discussions about increases include a near-certain gambling levyThe chancellor and prime minister will begin to pitch-roll tax rises and reforms fr...
President Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending package could speed up insolvency for Social Security’s trust funds, according to a new analysis from the Trump administration's chief actuary for t...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said this week that so-called pocket rescissions, a controversial maneuver that President Trump’s budget office is considering to reduce spending, are n...
NIESR suggests a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap Rachel Reeves will ...
The Senate on Friday passed its first tranche of government funding bills for fiscal year 2026 ahead of its upcoming August recess, but Congress is bracing for a potentially messy fight to prevent a s...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Friday afternoon that the chamber will be moving forward to pass its first tranche of government funding bills for...
The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), advancing a measure that would increase the agency’s bu...
