With little room for error, the House Republicans’ vote counter welcomes the president’s help to keep the caucus united on taxes and spending.

After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own.

Some of President Donald Trump's working-class and middle-class supporters see a lack of emphasis on lowering consumer costs and making daily American life more affordable.

The Trump administration temporarily paused federal grant, loan and other financial assistance programs, effective 5 p.m. ET Tuesday.

Minn., left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., applaud President Donald Trump at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami in

The administration is showing it doesn’t view the House and Senate as equal partners. So far, Republicans, who hold both majorities, are accepting their new status.

We all learned early in life that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the “Power of the Purse” on spending to act as a check on the executive branch, but it sure hasn’t looked like that in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was aiming to have a blueprint for a budget soon.

The president's attempts to Trumpsplain water to Californians sound ridiculous. They're also a smokescreen, obscuring what his policies would actually do.

Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”

A new rift has opened in the House Republican caucus over how best to carry out President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Make America Great Again” agenda. Conservative hardliners left the House GOP’s annual issues conference this week arguing leadership hasn’t found a path forward to effectively overhaul the federal government.

Many of Trump’s executive orders directly align with goals outlined in the conservative Project 2025 manifesto, and some of the same right-wing minds behind the manifesto at the Heritage Foundation have also crafted “Project Esther” to target pro-Palestine activists.