President Donald J. Trump exits the House Chamber after delivering the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. Kenny Holston/the New York Times | Via Reuters As Americans receive their tax refunds this…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally against the SAVE America Act outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 18, 2026. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty Images The Senate early Friday morning advanced a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, in a move to end the partial…
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on artificial intelligence at the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The Trump administration on Friday issued a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform safety and security guardrails around the nascent…
Skynesher | E+ | Getty Images New laws enacted in 2025 may have a big impact on how much Social Security beneficiaries pay in taxes this season. On Jan. 5, 2025, President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, a law that ended provisions that reduced or eliminated Social Security benefits for more than…
Cavan Images | Cavan | Getty Images At the start of 2025, during President Joe Biden’s final weeks in office, lawmakers pushed forward with last-minute major legislation that provides Social Security benefit increases to certain public pensioners. The Social Security Fairness Act was passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority in both the House and Senate,…
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House on October 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump‘s tariffs against Canada, in what could amount to…
People line up outside the Social Security Administration office in San Francisco. Getty Images Social Security, the federal social insurance program that millions of Americans rely on for income, faces a shortfall in funding it counts on from its trust funds. But that doesn’t mean the program is going bankrupt or will be entirely unable…
Niphon | Istock | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to grant Nvidia licenses to ship some of its more powerful artificial intelligence chips to China is ruffling the feathers of some of Washington’s most prominent China hawks, including members of his own party. The pushback intensified this week with the U.S. House of…
U.S. President Donald Trump, in front of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 22, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday rolled out the broad outline of a health-care plan that the White House claims will…
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on Friday, November 15, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on overriding President Donald Trump‘s first vetoes of his second term. Trump last month vetoed a pair of bills…
