How Republicans Re-engineered the Tax Code
The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President Trump’s populis...
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The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President Trump’s populis...
His politicization of the name America taps into a long, well, American tradition, as old as the nation itself.
Layoffs and departures after pressure from the Trump administration have left sites struggling, with the remaining employees each doing the...
Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump’s marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs — almost r...
Beijing must be delighted by how the U.S. is surrendering the future of electricity to it.
The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartis...
The letter had accused the Trump administration of politicizing, dismantling and sidelining the agency.
President Trump has spent days cajoling Republicans to support his spending bill. He will also have to sell it to the public as Democrats fo...
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters...
A tax move from the Reagan era might explain what’s going on now.
This week, President Trump will start the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not eve...
After a day of paralysis, the House remained frozen in place overnight as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdou...
President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill. They left with si...
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and...
Border Patrol agents made just over 6,000 arrests in June, according to government figures, a sign that President Trump’s hard-line immigrat...
Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.
Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party’s agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party le...
New York City’s surprising primary result has ramifications for the whole country.
The speaker’s struggle to bring his party’s sprawling domestic policy bill in for a landing was just the latest in his string of near-death...
The judge wrote that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law gave the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigrat...
Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the department and the thre...
Iran just ended its cooperation with international inspectors, suggesting no post-bombing deal is imminent. That may point to a long game of...
Plus, the science of staying cool.
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentive...
Hundreds of flights to Washington were canceled because of severe weather, forcing some members of the House to set off on hourslong drives...
President Trump sued Paramount over a “60 Minutes” interview with his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Repu...
The White House cited Pentagon concerns that some American arms stockpiles were dwindling too low. Among the affected weapons were air defen...
In a social media post, the president said the United States and Israel were finalizing a proposal to Hamas. The announcement comes ahead of...
Instead, the agency is flagging as “unverified” the Social Security numbers of thousands of people who lost their temporary legal status.
President Trump claimed that the New York mayoral candidate, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was “here illegally,” his latest effort to promote...
President Trump’s visit to the migrant detention center in the Everglades was meant to highlight the issue that binds his party to him more...
In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration’s plans to drastically change the structure and mission of the Department of...
It was the two leaders’ first call since 2022, and the Russian president’s first with any major European leader since last year.
The sprawling legislation that Republicans expended extraordinary effort to muscle through the Senate was a high-stakes risk that is likely...
Party leaders were able to muscle through considerable internal rifts, but the bill’s fate in the House was uncertain.
Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country’s finances for a generation.
Voting for over 24 hours, senators donned fluffy blankets in the frigid chamber, gobbled fast food and recorded behind-the-scenes tours of t...
President Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric against Elon Musk, at one point suggesting that he could be interested in attempting to deport him...
The former White House chief strategist speaks about the threats he sees to the political movement that formed around Donald J. Trump.
A popular former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, is expected to announce a bid this summer. The Republicans are banking on an endorsement b...
The New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recaps this Supreme Court term, which was defined by a disproportionate amount of emer...
The case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of the president’s invocation of a rarely used wartim...
U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former dictator, Bashar a...
Language in the chamber’s spending bill says that state laws related to A.I. cannot pose an “undue or disproportionate burden” to tech compa...
The dueling moves reflected how federal law enforcement officers have at times been put in the position of pursuing the Trump administration...
Senate Republicans can afford to lose no more than three of their own votes on the bill, but two already are opposed and others remained und...
As America’s largest trading partners race toward deals, they are increasingly worried about being hit with future tariffs on their critical...
The university had recently restarted talks with the White House regarding a potential deal after months of fighting in court.
The case involves a challenge to federal limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.