Congress is working out the details of the reconciliation package — or President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” — ...

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“It is kind of curious timing by the administration, since what's currently in discussion in Congress is the reconciliation bill,” Cato Institute budget expert Romina Boccia said of the White ...

As Democrats link Trump to Social Security’s struggles, he reiterates his promise to protect the agency’s benefits while also ...