Congressional Republicans are targeting Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income Americans, for hundreds of billions in savings to help pay for sweeping tax cuts, but there are intraparty divisions over how far to go.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski sounded the alarm over President Trump's efforts to downsize the federal workforce, particularly over the disproportionate harm it could cause in her home state of Alaska.
The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plans, and cuts could happen as soon as next week.
House Democrats are leading an effort to fight President Trump's sweeping overhaul of the federal government through a task force that could lead to lawsuits against the administration, representing states that receive more than $231.5 billion of federal funding.
Country music star Sheryl Crow said she will donate funds from selling her Tesla to NPR amid President Trump's intensified calls to slash federal funding for public broadcasters — calling out tech billionaire Elon Musk's role in the administration. “My parents always said… you are who you hang out with,” Crow wrote Friday in a...
Democrats need a politician like Teddy Roosevelt, who fought corruption, was progressive, and used the bully pulpit to champion progressive ideals, to defeat Donald Trump's MAGA movement and fix the problems that lead to Trump's rise.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday proposed that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine — which is nearing three years — shows the need for the European Union to create a unified army. "I really believe that time has come,” Zelensky said early Saturday, per The Associated Press. “The armed forces of Europe must...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) argued that while she agrees with President Trump’s administration goal to downsize the federal government, the current mass firings of workers across several departments and agencies are doing “more harm than good.” Murkowski said that “dozens” of Alaskans, possibly over 100 “are being fired as part of the Trump administration’s reduction-in-force...