Republicans are targeting Medicaid and SNAP for a combined $1 trillion in cuts as a way to offset the costs of the tax package, but also to achieve GOP goals of reining in the social safety net ...

House fiscal hawks and Republican senators, scoffing at the tactic, say the bill needs to change before it hits Trump’s desk.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill and former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli are leading their respective fields, a new AARP New Jersey/Siena College poll finds.

Mayor Ras Baraka, a critic of Delaney Hall Detention Center’s opening in Newark, was accused of trespassing and ignoring ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance ...

The thing to understand about Social Security is that it also helps undergird the lives of people who don’t receive benefits.

There’s a nickname for House Speaker Mike Johnson shared among some Hill staffers and observers: “Deacon Mike,” a nod to his ...