Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and was a leading opponent of the bill, which he deemed the “big, ugly betrayal.” He returned to Eye on Northwest Politics ...

President Trump’s newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, by most conventional estimates, add trillions to America’s national debt to pay for permanent tax cuts. Republicans insist the bill will ...

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said it was “agonizing” to vote for the tax cut bill President Trump signed on July 4. As details of the legislation come into focus, it’s obvious why it might ...

Democrat Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democratic congressman, sat down with WBZ-TV following the passage of President ...

The Senate passed Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” after a 26-hour marathon of negotiations during which Alaska ...

Longstanding precedent suggests that the Democrats’ banishment to the political wilderness may be short-lived. Democratic nominees enjoy healthy leads in the off-year gubernatorial races in New Jersey ...

Column: Requiring work for Medicaid recipients — a provision that killed an effort in 2024 to expand Medicaid in Mississippi ...

So, this provision of the “One Big Beautiful” bill does not “protect Social Security.” Instead, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, it pushes up its bankruptcy date by one ...

Student loan borrowers’ options are dwindling and time is not on their side as the Trump administration turns up the heat to get all borrowers back in repayment.   The recently passed “big, ...

Mississippians who supported Medicaid expansion would have been better off had they accepted a work requirement in the 2024 legislative session.

Nearly six months into Trump's second term, he has passed a sweeping bill that works to erase much of Biden's policy legacy.

The Secret Service"failed to implement security measures" that could have prevented the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump, according to a newly released report by the ...