WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, saying he planned to meet with budget director Russ ...

A: No checks are being issued. President Donald Trump said he wants to use tariff revenue to give “dividend” payments of “at least $2,000” to “middle-income people and lower-income people.” But no ...

Shaheen, D-N.H., in a letter to Trump, noted that the Tesla CEO Musk and DOGE employees have "unprecedented" access to "vast swathes of some of the most sensitive U.S. government data" across a broad ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he's ordered all of his Cabinet secretaries to work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and to use a "scalpel" when deciding which workers will ...

Congress can use the budget reconciliation bill to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by refusing to pay the salaries of government employees who, instead of doing their jobs, are doing ...

The August jobs report comes out Friday. It’ll be the first read on nationwide job creation, unemployment, and wages since the lackluster July report that also featured downward revisions to the ...

With the longest government shutdown in history finally over, federal agencies are slowly bringing affected services back online and hoping to resume normal operations by the end of next week.

Explore expert analysis on the September jobs report, economic forecasts, and the impact of Fed rate policy. Read what ...

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen urged President Donald Trump to require billionaire Elon Musk to formally acknowledge he is not authorized to use sensitive government data for personal benefit. The New Hampshire ...