President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson say their tax-and-spending bill will slash the deficit. A growing number of their Republican colleagues disagree.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell, or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state where abortions are banned with few exceptions.

Democratic senators joined hundreds of faith leaders on the Capitol steps Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to denounce SNAP and Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's massive budget proposal.

A controversial provision restoring leases to a copper-nickel mine project adjacent to the Boundary Waters will most likely be removed from the federal budget bill moving through Congress. On Tuesday night,

Louisiana may be able to speed up executions after the Legislature passed a bill to overhaul post-conviction relief, a mechanism where inmates seek to have their sentences shortened or overturned.

Faster expiry of tax credits and new foreign entity rules in Trump's proposed tax bill would derail a swathe of clean power projects and could push up customer bills in the long term, industry experts said.

House Bill 2025 was introduced with 20 days left in the legislative session. Republicans are not happy, saying they have been left out of the process.

A controversial bill to expand the criteria that can be considered prior to mandating someone undergo mental health treatment advanced Tuesday.

President Trump likes to say he's bringing in trillions of dollars in investments from foreign countries, but a provision in his tax cuts bill could cause international companies to avoid expanding into the United States.

Democratic lawmakers will submit a bill in the Senate on Tuesday that would reverse the Pentagon's new ban on transgender military service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria who now face being forced out if they had not previously self-identified as transgender.

It would prohibit school libraries from removing books on the basis of their being about or by a member of a protected class as defined in Oregon’s anti-discrimination law.