Debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill. Now the argument goes national.

New law reduces the number of federal student loan repayment options and caps how much individuals can borrow for higher education.

A breakdown of how H.R.1, the sweeping 2025 reconciliation law, transforms student loans, repayment plans, federal aid eligibility, and institutional oversight

Trump promised to eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits in his 2024 campaign, but the bill instead adds a new deduction.

About 11.8 million people are at risk of losing their health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office

Column: Requiring work for Medicaid recipients — a provision that killed an effort in 2024 to expand Medicaid in Mississippi — is now law of the land under Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill." Expanding Medicaid could still save lives.

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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff hosts re-election rally in Savannah after local Rep. Buddy Carter announced campaign for U.S. Senate.

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.