Jarrell Dillard

The Senate rejected an initial effort Thursday to bar the Trump administration from creating a controversial fund to compensate people who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted or investigated.

The legislation, which the Senate passed Friday, has been held up by disputes over President Donald Trump’s ballroom and the $1.8B payout fund.

ICE and CBP will be able to keep spending money at a scale that will transform immigration enforcement and with fewer checks and balances.

Lawmakers are proposing raising the excise tax on stock buybacks from 1 percent to 4 percent.

Congress showed again this week it is really struggling to follow its own normal budget-making process, and programs Americans love could be at stake.

Congress showed again this week it is really struggling to follow its own normal budget-making process, and programs Americans love could be at stake.

The unusually large shift comes amid revelations that the president’s ballroom project will rely more on taxpayer money than the administration acknowledged.

The bipartisan measure, the first major housing legislation since the financial crisis, would bar institutional investors from buying more than 350 single-family homes.

The first major housing legislation since the financial crisis would bar institutional investors from buying more than 350 single-family homes.

With elections looming, lawmakers in both political parties are under pressure to show they are listening to Americans’ concerns about the economy.