Senate Republicans on Monday criticized Elon Musk’s directive for federal government employees to lose their jobs if they did not send in a bullet-pointed summary of what they did last week at

Nominees for OMB, DHS told Senators that the firing of probationary employees is part of the need to right-size the federal workforce.

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Senate leaders are looking to advance picks for the White House budget and science offices, among others agencies.

The new effort to adjust Pentagon spending is not a cut, but a reallocation to find $50 billion for the Department of Defense’s priorities under the new Trump administration, the nominee for the department’s second-highest job told a Senate panel.

President Donald Trump's pick to oversee a consumer watchdog is due to face a grilling from Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Thursday as the White House presses ahead with aggressive efforts to dismantle the agency.

Republicans in Congress this week continue to discuss ways to move forward President Trump’s legislative agenda through budget reconciliation.

Illinois Senate Republicans demanded the Pritzker administration create no new taxes ahead of Gov. JB Pritzker's budget address coming Wednesday.

The Senate adopted a budget resolution that outlines parameters ... United States Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management. He and Ms. Collins backed an amendment to prevent cuts ...