Republican leaders in Congress assert they do not plan to cut Medicaid, but Democrats are pushing back, claiming those ...

Lawmakers’ projections for revenues in the coming year aren’t as high as Gov. JB Pritzker’s, raising questions about how much money will be available during this year’s budget negotiations.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that 'I am not worried about inflation' resulting from President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, although he did acknowledge 'we could get a one-time price ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday laid out the Trump administration's ambitions to reshape international ...

Some Democrats believe the only viable strategy for slowing and eventually halting the Trump steamroller is all-out ...

Trump backtracks and lifts tariffs on most Mexican and Canadian goods for a month - The White House claims the tariffs are ...

Major US tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect at the start of March, but the rollout has been messy to say the ...

The overriding questions of President Donald Trump’s second term are how dramatically he wants to cut government, and how far ...

Public funding for IVF will not rescue our nation's declining fertility rate or inoculate Republicans against political ...

Trump administration cuts to teacher training grants are putting a strain on rural school systems, which have relied on the ...

WASHINGTON -Large swaths of the U.S. government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if Congress does ...

The presumption is that if the economy slows enough, the Fed would step in to lower rates, while tax cuts and deregulation would spur growth. "Rather than slower growth being deemed a policy error, ...