GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Sens. Markwayne Mullin and James Lankford support Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to L.A.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer believes his party can retake the Senate in next year’s midterm elections — but Democrats face daunting odds.

It is hard to articulate a justification for ballooning the federal debt in service of saving fewer lives.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are determined to enact his tax-cut agenda in a political push that has largely abandoned longtime party claims of fiscal discipline, by simply denying warnings that the measure will balloon the federal debt.

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OMB director ignores current law and relies on budget gimmicks to claim massive deficit reduction.