Last year, Congress took the unprecedented step of approving a defense budget exceeding $1 trillion through the highly partisan budget reconciliation process rather than regular order appropriations, ...

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 ...

Senate Republicans are poised to adopt a budget resolution to unlock the use of the budget reconciliation process to end the Democrats’ shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security with 51 ...

The FY 2027 budget process is underway, with the president submitting his proposal April 3 and committees beginning hearings the week of April 13. Senate leadership is expected to move a budget ...

Republicans are heading into a legislative crunch week with two of their biggest priorities — an immigration enforcement funding bill and a long-term extension of the government’s warrantless spying ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Congress returns to Capitol Hill this week facing a mountain of government funding work — all amid a record-long shutdown and plenty of uncertainty about the path ahead. First, House and Senate ...