Congress

The Supreme Court's decision overturning the Chevron deference is a step towards rolling back the power of the administrative state, the origins of which go back more than a century.

The newly formed “Budget Lab” at Yale plans to focus on the long-term outcomes of proposed legislation.

The Social Security program is on track to burn through its savings account by 2035 unless Congress changes the law before then. Social Security faced a similar funding crisis in the early 1980s.

Social Security has been known as “the third rail of American politics” since the early 1980s, with the idea that touching the program can prove deadly to a politician’s career.

It's part of an overall mistrust of foreign influence with deep roots in American history.

They say programs designed to help low-income families are only reaching a fraction of those eligible.

Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform, so it's using the appropriations bill to bulk up the Department of Homeland Security.

Efforts to force parent company ByteDance to either divest or sell off the app would likely meet resistance from China.

Earmarks promise to spend money on specific projects requested by individual members of Congress.

Federal firefighters make as little as $15 an hour. A permanent boost has bipartisan support, but it’s tied up in Congress' budget fight.