Senate Republicans had gathered for one of their regular private lunches last Wednesday when Rand Paul commanded their ...

Elon Musk and Republican senators are eyeing a package to claw back tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in federal ...

The measure’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where several Democrats will be needed to cross the 60-vote threshold for it ...

Senate Democrats decided not to block a GOP-led funding bill, which many have said fails to do enough to rein in Elon Musk's ...

The House passed a government funding bill, daring Senate Democrats to oppose it and risk a partial shutdown as stocks wobble ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

The dynamic of cutting government while also cutting out those who answer to voters has alarmed even some fiscal ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has suggested that DOGE present Congress with a $500 billion spending rescission package. That would require Musk ...

Rand Paul (R-Ky.) after the lunch. An infamous deficit hawk, Paul pitched Elon Musk on a massive rescission package during a lunch on Wednesday, he told reporters. Such a package would undo federal ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities ...