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SALT cap fight ramps up

WASHINGTON — An influential group of five House Republicans from high-tax states is threatening to hold up a major tax…

Photos show former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral

A picture of U.S. President Jimmy Carter is seen as members of the public sign a condolence book in the…

House speaker breaks with Trump over debt limit

WASHINGTON — With just hours to go before the federal government begins shutting down for lack of funds, House Republicans…

Trump endorses House GOP deal to avert government shutdown

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump endorsed a House Republican deal Thursday to fund the government for three months and avert…

Trump blasts House government funding deal, demands debt ceiling hike

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he would prefer for House Republicans to refuse to fund the federal…

SEC charges Cantor Fitzgerald, led by Trump’s Commerce pick

Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of BGC Partners Inc., speaks during the Piper Sandler Global Exchange and FinTech Conference in…

DOGE’s Musk, Ramaswamy try to sell Congress on huge spending cuts

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have an ambitious agenda to cut federal spending with the help…

TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective ban…

IRS crackdown on wealthy Americans faces roadblocks

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of wealthy Americans are not complying with recently revamped Internal Revenue Service efforts to get…

Secret Service shoots near Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen home

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers remarks on the Inflation Reduction Act after visiting the site of a new paperless processing…