The party is deadlocked on how to prune down the Biden agenda—in a way that gets them reelected.

New data from the Department of Agriculture suggests that families are increasingly losing access to nutritious meals.

Polls find huge support for individual pieces of the budget bill, but its cost has overshadowed what it contains.

We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).

House Democrats recently strengthened the “truth in testimony” rule for witnesses at committee hearings, but many are still exploiting loopholes to avoid revealing their affiliations and funding sources.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

A little more socialism could actually help Democrats pass legislation.

America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.

The party can avert fiscal catastrophe without the GOP’s help—but it’s a complicated nightmare.

After weeks of posturing, the party needs to come home, pass the Biden agenda, and honor its commitments to voters.

Congressional Democrats are breaking the president’s promise of an FDR-size presidency. It’s time for him to take his case back to the public.

The West Virginia senator insists that work requirements be included in the bill, despite all the evidence suggesting they are unnecessary and ineffective.

It will pass. And we’ll all forget how worried we were that it wouldn’t.

The House’s budget chief on reconciliation, the debt ceiling, and herding cats: “I’m trying not to play Joe Manchin.”

The party will try to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling, and pass an infrastructure deal before the end of the month. No big deal!

When Republicans say they won’t vote to prevent default, Democrats had best believe them.

If Biden wants to convince voters of the urgency of his plans, he’ll need a stronger way to sell the Democrats’ reconciliation bill.

Bob Woodward’s new book reports that General Mark Milley feared Trump might attack China. Such a scenario is only possible because lawmakers ceded their war-making power to the executive branch.

The Ohio representative’s decision to not seek reelection deals a savage blow to Republicans hoping to free their party from the former president’s influence.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes—like economic ruin!