Neera Tanden and Eugene Craig join The Weekend’s politics roundtable discussion on Sen. Joni Ernst’s non apology and Speaker Johnson’s defense of the GOP’s massive budget bill.

President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

Campaign rhetoric on Trump's mega bill in Congress offers a look into early messaging tactics both parties will fine-tune ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

By Alan Jaffe Multiple independent analyses say the recently passed House reconciliation bill — even with its deep spending cuts in some areas — would add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit over 10 years.

Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst has delivered a backhanded apology for acknowledging everyone dies during a town hall that included frustration over Trump Medicaid reforms.

Director Russell Vought on Sunday pushed back against the idea that a sizable package of Republican priorities that recently made it through the House is

White House officials argue that fears about the bond market are overstated and that warnings about the deficit impact of Trump’s first tax bill were exaggerated.

Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, bashed constituents who said Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" would kill people: "Well, we're all going to die," Ernst responded. The bill narrowly passed in the House of Representatives on May 22 in a 215-214 vote.

Fresh off a huge victory in passing their “big, beautiful bill” through the House, Republican lawmakers are finding that President Trump’s agenda is a much tougher sell at home. In a series of

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) reacts to the Republican agenda bill, which heads to the Senate after passing the House.