As lawmakers plot out state spending for the next few years, a health budget bill has emerged as a key sticking point in ...

These Jersey friends, a Republican and a Democrat, agree Trump's terrible approval raating will get worse if the economy doesn't improve.

After President Donald Trump’s victory in November, many Democrats are looking for someone to stand up and lead the party. But, Pappas says, there isn’t one leader for his party.

An outright ban of any future government universal basic income distribution has won approval in the Texas Senate. Sponsored by Houston Republican Paul Bettencourt, the statewide prohibition was ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker opposed the Republican budget plan key to enacting President Trump's agenda with a sit-in protest on the steps of the Capitol as the sun rose ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said he won’t seek re-election to his seat which will clear the way for a wide open race to replace him within the Democratic party.

He says House Democrats have a strategy to continue to fight against vouchers, but he didn’t want to dive too deep into the ...

Congress is proving to be almost no match for this White House. Trump is testing, challenging and even bullying the Congress ...

Speaker Mike Johnson’s agenda has been repeatedly seized by a group of GOP hardliners who have used the party’s razor-thin ...

House Republicans are carving out $68.8 billion for President Donald Trump’s border wall and to hire more agents in the field ...

Full disclosure of the origin and authorship of budget amendments, and of how and why budget conferees’ reached decisions ...

General Assembly budget mistakes -- like destroying Ohio's nationally envied public libraries or underfunding public schools ...