Democratic congressional leaders, including Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Newport News), on Tuesday morning heard accounts from local ...

DOGE is cutting government spending, but overall spending is still up and the deficit has increased. Learn what that means ...

President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk celebrated their efforts to slash federal spending before Musk stepped away from his White House work. Musk wore a black DOGE hat over ...

Congress is preparing to take up a new rescissions package next week that could slash billions in funding from international ...

The IRS, hit by the Trump administration's federal workforce cuts, has lost 31% of its auditors through March, government watchdog finds.

Musk initially promised that he would eliminate $2 trillion of the $7 trillion federal budget, before scaling back his ambitions to $1 trillion, and then $150 billion. Even that revised target is ...

The U.S. spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign assistance. Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide in the Senate who ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson has blasted Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), comparing it to pre-WWII Nazi Germany ...

Among those in households with layoffs, 45 percent are seriously considering leaving the D.C. area, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of ...

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X that an undocumented migrant from Mexico had been ...