This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a record-long shutdown. Senate Democrats filibustered funding in a doomed ...

The threat of being kept after school if you hadn’t completed your homework was a motivator back in my high school days. Apparently, it doesn’t work on adults in Congress. Senate Majority Leader John ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday advanced its portion of Congress' reconciliation package, which includes language capping the budget of an independent federal ...

House GOP leaders had a brief scare last week when they had to go back and fix several pages in their mammoth budget reconciliation bill that passed before Memorial Day. That “privilege scrub” process ...

WASHINGTON — As the U.S. House prepares to vote on a sweeping budget blueprint that was approved by the U.S. Senate last week, sizable cuts to Medicaid are one step closer — and just who would bear ...

Richard Stern was Acting Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The... The reconciliation process is ...

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: The U.S. Capitol Dome is seen as House Republicans continue to search for a Speaker of the House in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on October 24, 2023 ...

As Republicans in Congress begin trying to enact President Donald Trump’s tax and spending agenda, the word “reconciliation” has come up repeatedly. Democrats, who are in the minority, are now waging ...

With Republicans in control of Congress and Donald Trump back in the White House, many in the GOP see immigrationas a top priority. Focusing on the issue would help them consolidate a wavering House ...

The 119th Congress should use the budget reconciliation process to advance 12 education reforms that right-size federal involvement in K–12 and higher education. The reforms include advancing ...

The White House sent Congress its 2026 “skinny budget” it says will pump up defense spending and slash non-defense discretionary spending by nearly a quarter. The budget request “guts a weaponized ...