Mike Johnson has been scrambling to appease Elon Musk and Donald Trump with his spending bill.

The House speaker has announced a deal to keep the government funded—and it’s missing Trump’s big request.

The GOP is again pushing for harsher work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP—even though it would barely dent our national debt.

A negative score from Washington’s budget metaphysicians could have killed the Build Back Better Act. But when a positive one came in, barely anyone noticed.

It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.

How the Covid lockdown is reconfiguring the nexus of getting and spending

What new CBO projections say about our economic future