Some 70 million people are covered by Medicaid, a public health insurance program for low-income Americans. Trump and Republicans want to pass a $4.5 trillion tax cut, writes Steve Almond. Their plan ...

Republicans are taking a huge political gamble as they try to find money for tax cuts by threatening to slash Medicaid. As Congress has learned repeatedly, most recently in 2018, when the party in ...

No matter how many times Speaker Mike Johnson claims otherwise, this is not about eliminating waste, fraud or abuse. It is a ...

Trump’s friendlier approach to dealing with Republican lawmakers is a stark departure from his first term, when he often took ...

Michael Missal, the former Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs who was dismissed by Trump (along with 16 ...

Congressman Jim McGovern will be joined by Sue Koehler, a Leominster resident and longtime community advocate, as his guest ...

While President Donald Trump will surely use his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to tout his administration ...

The freshman senator from a swing state will speak to Americans nationwide as Democrats wrestle with how to push back against ...

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Minnesota lawmakers are beginning to come to grips with how proposed Republican spending cuts included in a U.S. House budget ...

It’s a long-standing tradition for lawmakers to invite guests to a president’s address to Congress to send a message.

The bill that would remove the sunset date on Montana’s Medicaid expansion program has passed the Legislature and could soon ...