Texas sheriff didn't promise to help Mexican rescuers get green cards Videos posted online claimed Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said he would take the action because the rescue team saved his ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a provision of President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy law to defund Planned Parenthood’s health ...

Planned Parenthood is suing the Trump administration over the “big, beautiful bill” defunding its health care services, arguing the provision will have devastating consequences across the country.

President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress. At nearly 900 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax ...

Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Monday ruled the measure violated budget reconciliation rules, forcing Republicans to drop it from the final text.

In practice she is almighty. She is the Senate parliamentarian. Elizabeth MacDonough has held the office since 2012. Her job is to interpret the Senate’s rules in a scrupulously non-partisan manner.

But MacDonough ruled that any provision that would effectively eliminate the bureau’s budget could not be approved through a simple majority vote.

"You probably don't know this, but the most important person in the Senate isn't actually a senator. It's the Senate parliamentarian, and she's been busy slashing huge parts of Trump's big ...

Who is the Senate parliamentarian, and why do they matter for Medicaid? Watch this week’s episode of a new video series from STAT to find out.

The Senate version of the legislation makes even steeper cuts to Medicaid than the $800 billion slashed in the House-passed version of the bill.

For more politics coverage and analysis, sign up for Here’s the Deal, our weekly politics newsletter, here. Today’s vote in the U.S. Senate, on Trump’s big bill, was dramatic. In the chamber ...