A recent ruling takes a hammer to our constitutional order and empowers Trump above all else—including Congress.

The Washington area is already struggling from Trump’s mass layoffs of federal workers. The shutdown will severely compound the pain.

If lawmakers don’t extend enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, low- and middle-income households should get ready for some significant sticker shock.

And the Trump administration, which has been on a spree killing off vital transportation projects, doesn’t care.

The new Republican spending law “defunds” the organization and slashes Medicaid, leaving an untold number of vulnerable people in the lurch.

A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill before they are implemented.

A provision to eliminate income taxes on tips will exclude the lowest-income workers and only serve a sliver of the population.

Hunger relief organizations are bracing for the sweeping changes to SNAP and Medicaid that could result in millions losing access to assistance.

Has there ever been a budget bill more mendacious than Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill?

Regardless of how lawmakers react, experts say the president’s actions were unlawful.

Whenever lawmakers start carving up benefit programs, women raising children alone are always the first to feel the pain. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” follows in that grim tradition.

Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering.

The definition of the “traditional family” has broadened considerably over the past few decades. But policymakers keep trying to fit their ideas to a tradition that no longer exists.

The law is clear, and the legislature’s powers are unambiguous. But Republicans in Washington have fully knuckled under.

The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy.

GOP lawmakers in Washington want someone else to make the tough choice of slashing nutrition benefits—and to take the blame for who gets left behind.

Donald Trump talked a good game about raising taxes on the rich. Guess who benefits from a provision buried deep within the new GOP bill?

The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those. The question is, who will stop it?

In theory, “pronatalist” policies could help alleviate child poverty—but only if they’re paired with other efforts to strengthen the social safety net.