The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns, advancing a ...

By John Hood Fiscal negotiations between the North Carolina House and Senate appear to have stalled out for now, with the two chambers too far apart on the timing and magnitude of future tax cuts to ...

Senate Republicans are coming around to the $40,000 cap on state and local tax deduction key House lawmakers demand in ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are considering adding a provision to President Trump’s tax cut bill that would further cut ...

The 53 GOP senators won't be able to pass the bill's worst provisions without at least 7 Democratic votes.

The Senate parliamentarian has rejected several controversial provisions in the GOP’s ‘big beautiful bill’ over the last few days. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) aims to have the bill ...

Republicans have hit a roadblock in an effort that could deter nonprofits, individuals and others from filing lawsuits to ...

A bill meant to designate an official state star of North Carolina was converted into a 44-page bill to deal with spending.

While the two bills are similar on the major tax provisions, how they work out their differences in the coming weeks will ...

The loss of revenue could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people.

Trump and Republicans have set a July 4 deadline to pass a bill cutting taxes and Medicaid and to pay for immigration ...

Both chambers of the state legislature are controlled by Republicans. But they've proven unable in recent months to negotiate ...