Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent found himself in an unexpected position Friday morning, facing a challenging question from — of all people — a Fox News anchor. The budget bill passed by the House this week “adds trillions to our debt,” Fox’s Bill Hemmer noted. “How is that acceptable to this administration?”

Italy fully supports European Union efforts to stop Russian gas imports into the bloc by 2027, the country's energy minister told reporters on Thursday, adding any decisions by Rome to boost LNG imports from the U.S. were up to private buyers.

The budget bill passed Thursday by U.S. House Republicans seeks, among other cuts, to gut clean energy incentives to pay for President Donald Trump’s proposed tax breaks.

House Republicans are committed to an extraordinary influx of funding to ramp up the president’s deportation agenda and border enforcement.

The LA City Council approved a revised budget to close its deficit, which also reduced layoffs from roughly 1,600 to about 600.

The council provided the funds to recruit 240 police officers next year, down from the 480 proposed by the mayor. Bass' hiring plan for the fire department was also scaled back.

Republicans narrowly passed Donald Trump’s sweeping budget reconciliation bill through the House Wednesday night, including a last-minute provision that would not require gun owners to register the purchase of silencers.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget assumes California will see a sharp decline in projected revenue, largely because President Donald Trump’s tariffs will slow the nation’s economy.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency clashed with Democratic senators Wednesday, accusing one of being an “aspiring fiction writer” and saying another does not "care about wasting money.'' Democrats countered that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s tenure will likely mean more Americans contracting lung cancer and other

A three-month budget will go into effect in July amid the possibility of a potential endowment tax increase that could cost the college millions more.

That’s not great news for Casey Means, the wellness influencer and author Donald Trump nominated at Kennedy’s suggestion to serve as the surgeon general. Means is not a practicing physician because she has no active medical license, and she never completed her physician residency.