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Biden Takes Aim at SpaceX’s Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace

President Biden wants companies that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of...

How Patty Murray Won $1 Billion for Child Care as Congress Is Deadlocked

A self-described “mom in tennis shoes,” now the Senate Appropriations Committee leader, managed to win an increase in child care subsidies in a spending...

The Great Tension Inside the Trump G.O.P.

How long can a populist party support a libertarian Congress?

Biden, Promising Corporate Tax Increases, Has Cut Taxes Overall

President Biden has called for $5 trillion in new taxes on corporations and high earners. But his record so far is as a net...

Biden Signs Final Bill to Fund the Government, Ending Shutdown Fears

The president signed a $1.2 trillion spending package that passed early on Saturday morning, narrowly avoiding a shutdown.

The Far Right Wants Its Revenge on Speaker Johnson Over Spending Bill

Bipartisan spending legislation approved by Congress represented a major defeat for ultraconservatives, who immediately turned on Speaker Mike Johnson.

Enraged Over Spending Bill, Greene Threatens to Oust Johnson

The hard-right Georgia Republican called the $1.2 trillion legislation an “atrocious attack on the American people” and said the speaker had betrayed his G.O.P....

Details of $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill Emerge as Partial Shutdown Looms

Tucked inside a massive measure to fund the government through the fall are several initiatives sought by members of both parties. Aides are still...

Social Security and Medicare Are on the Ballot

Biden has a plan. Trump doesn’t but could wind up gutting those programs.

Biden Plan Would Raise Taxes on Corporations and the Wealthy

The proposals in President Biden’s budget plan, including the tax increases, project to reduce deficits by about $3 trillion over a decade.

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