An assessment of state-level inflows and outflows of federal funds finds red states are being propped up by blue states.

Even as they praise the president’s unilateral actions to slash federal spending, G.O.P. lawmakers have quietly moved to seek ...

Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced Thursday that she will not be seeking re-election. Smith made her ...

The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...

State officials reported a sharp decline in the official number of abortions after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in ...

Overall, a slim majority of Americans (55%) express a great deal or fair amount of confidence in federal career employees, while 44% have little or no confidence.

Alabama and other Republican-led states push to enact more laws this year to legally define two sexes based on observations ...

Experts say every state gets millions in federal help — and a little more goes to Republican states and congressional ...

Five former leaders of the US Agency for International Development from across Republican and Democratic administrations have ...

House Republicans are putting cuts to Medicaid at the top of their list of budget cuts to help pay for their wide-ranging ...

Republicans are exploring cuts to Medicaid in an effort to pay for the president’s priorities. But public opinion, a divided ...