The rules for budget reconciliation are fairly straightforward, but it requires a trifecta to pull off," John Ferrari said.

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 ...

Advancing any legislation through this process is now significantly more challenging given House Speaker Mike Johnson's ...

Republican lawmakers are so deeply divided over how to fill the agenda for the rest of 2026 that they now believe it’s ...

A late March submission would be much earlier than last year, when a discretionary spending request was issued on May 2.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled Tuesday that lawmakers could use the budget reconciliation process to advance a new ...

As the year closes, Republicans are looking to the past for another dance with a partisan exercise that tested the party’s unity and delivered President Donald Trump his crowning legislative ...

The president said Republicans have “gotten everything passed that we need,” but lawmakers aren’t so sure.

House and Senate appropriators backed the White House’s shipbuilding goals with an additional $6.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2026—including adjustments to fix accounting errors resulting from ...