WASHINGTON — Raising the federal minimum wage through the budget reconciliation process would be a “stretch,” but House Democrats plan to try it anyway, Budget Chairman John Yarmuth said Monday. Even ...

Two GOP defense chairs would like to see Congress enact a second reconciliation package that includes $450 billion for ...

G. William Hoagland is Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a record-long shutdown. Senate Democrats filibustered funding in a doomed ...

The adage “if you are in a hole, stop digging” aptly applies to the federal budget outlook. Left unchanged, the current federal budget is projected to see increasing debt and deficits well into the ...

Defense budget expert, Todd Harrison, of the American Enterprise Institute, lays out a clear-eyed explanation of how the Pentagon is funding its operations—and why the current approach may be setting ...

Senate Republicans have been mulling whether to again use a powerful yet divisive legislative process, and tackling the unfolding Minnesota fraud scandal could be at the top of the list. Congressional ...