Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

Early this week when the Trump administration inflicted chaos on Nevada and the nation by announcing a sweeping freeze on federal financial assistance that even the administration couldn’t explain, ...

Congress and Republican President Donald Trump have made it clear they intend to consider far-reaching policies to limit the ...

Many millions of people would have a harder time affording and accessing health care under Republican proposals that Congress ...

Shipments of uranium ore are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with a mining ...

President Donald Trump's White House ordered a pause in all federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday, a sweeping decision ...

After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own ...

State and congressional leaders in West Virginia were monitoring a temporary federal freeze in grants and aid that could have ...

North Carolina was the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Lambeth said lawmakers in some of the ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

In order for the United States to remain “a government of laws, not of men,” all officials entrusted with elected authority ...

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...