Austin-area congressmen had requested the money for local infrastructure projects like the Waterloo Greenway Creek ...

Federal wildland firefighters secured new special salary pay tables at all levels through the six-month continuing resolution ...

When Congress passed a stopgap funding bill last week to keep the government running through September, one casualty was ...

Many House and Senate Democrats, who want to try to block President Trump’s agenda at any cost, are questioning his ...

After giving anti-earmark GOP conservatives a taste of austerity, it'll be hard to go back to the flush times, stakeholders ...

Congressional appropriators, the lawmakers with jurisdiction over government funding, were once among the most powerful figures on Capitol Hill — tough and often-revered negotiators who struck ...

The Senate and House Appropriations Committees have long held enormous influence and power. But Hill spending leaders are ...

Trump has a trio of Kentucky Republicans to worry about, but Sen. Rand Paul manages to draw the least MAGA scorn — for now.

We shouldn’t be surprised to see some politicians play our divisions and suspicions against each other. The best we can do is ...

Amid the blizzard of breaking news, a familiar irritation poked through: ethnic labeling. The issue unexpectedly emerged last week while the Senate considered a stopgap federal funding bill to keep ...

Rep. Debbie Dingell, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other health care officials from around Michigan said the cuts will hurt all ...

The president's recent labeling of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as a Palestinian continues a troubling pattern.