Republicans who were some of the leading advocates for the United States to provide refuge for Afghans have now gone quiet, apparently resigned to the demise of the Special Immigrant Visa program.

The deal between Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) and House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) allows ...

Senate appropriators' draft spending bill would include new funding to hire FEMA staff after hundreds of employees departed the agency this year.

Letters reflect the views of individual readers. Today's issues: Cuts to science; anti-poverty funding; the cost of immigrant ...

Amid a tumultuous year in national security policy, one person has been at the center of some of the highest-profile Trump ...

The Senate’s fiscal 2026 Interior-Environment bill would redirect $250 million in unobligated funds for getting lead out of ...

The Senate followed the House in leaving for the Christmas break on Thursday, kicking to January the next handful of spending ...

Disability advocates alarmed by the Trump administration’s plans for special education say a recent meeting with Education Secretary Linda McMahon did not alleviate what one participant described as ...

President Donald Trump signed the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act last week. At more than 3000 pages, the ...

Senate Republicans beat their own record for federal district court confirmations — but vacancies are drying up, appellate ...

U.S. lawmakers have left town for the holidays without making any actionable progress on the long-delayed fiscal year 2026 ...

The Saturday protest comes as Colorado senators are holding up a government spending bill in an attempt to ensure NCAR gets ...