Michael Rainey

Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday as Washington prepares for a major shift in power following Republicans' apparent clean sweep of the White House and congressional control in last week's elections. President-elect Donald Trump's stunning return to the White House is already influencing the political dynamics, even as the 118th Congress attempts to wrap up its final business during the post-election lame-duck session, with a to-do list that includes funding the government ahead of a December 20 deadline, providing additional disaster relief aid and, in the Senate, confirming a slew of federal judges.

Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday as Washington prepares for a major shift in power following Republicans’ apparent clean sweep of the White House and congressional control in last week's elections. President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning return to the White House is already influencing the political dynamics, even as the 118th Congress attempts to wrap up its final business during the post-election lame-duck session, with a to-do list that includes funding the government ahead of a Dec

Vice President Kamala Harris spent much of her failed presidential campaign warning about how Donald Trump might govern if allowed to return to the White House with no guardrails. But Americans voters gave Trump a decisive victory in both the popular vote and the Electoral College and they handed him a Republican Congress, as well, so we’re now seeing what Trump will be like without those guardrails. We’re seeing it most prominently with a slew of recent staffing picks that are sending shockwave

Michael Rainey 2 min read The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump is discussing plans to kill the tax credit for electric vehicles as part of a larger tax overhaul, Reuters reported Thursday.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur who has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead a new and as yet undefined “Department of Government Efficiency” tasked with slashing federal spending, said this weekend that some government agencies could be “deleted outright” under the incoming administration.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur who has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead a new and as yet undefined “Department of Government Efficiency” tasked with slashing federal spending, said this weekend that some government agencies could be “deleted outright” under the incoming administration. In an interview that aired this weekend, Ramaswamy told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network that the proposed reductions could be extensive. “We expect mass reductions in for

Republicans in the House met behind closed doors Tuesday to lay out their priorities for the new Congress that starts in January, and their to-do list looks pretty familiar to anyone who's been observing GOP politics over the last few years: build the border wall and crack down on immigration, lock in the 2017 tax cuts, drill more oil, slash programs passed by Democrats and reduce the size of the “administrative state.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial Republican firebrand from Georgia, said Thursday that she will head a new House subcommittee that

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said this week that they plan to target billions of dollars in “unauthorized” federal spending as part of their effort to trim waste from the budget.“DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizatio

On Thursday, the gross U.S. national debt surpassed $36 trillion for the first time, according to data from the Treasury Department . Debt held by the public – a subset of the gross national debt that excludes debt the government owes to itself – has also been rising to record highs, and now exceeds $28 billion.