The chamber voted 52-48 to begin debate on a multitrillion-dollar plan that would cut taxes, boost spending for immigration enforcement and the military, and raise the debt limit.

After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trump’s ”“big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Families face a $3,000 tax hike if key cuts expire. Senate Republicans want bold relief, but House GOP moves could block the tax plan America needs.

Republicans in the Senate started the process for passing a new version of President Donald Trump's budget to tackle the southern border and extend the 2017 tax cuts.

The Colorado Republican Party’s new chair pledges to grow the party and make it more competitive and inclusive. She has her work cut out for her.

The Senate proposal includes language noting that lawmakers plan to abide by Trump's promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits while protecting them from "waste, fraud, and abuse," though it is not binding. That language is meant to imply that Medicaid spending could be cut, but that the cuts wouldn't reduce benefits.

If efforts to restore the funding fail, the cost of borrowing to cover the promised money yanked from the city will fall on Springfield residents.

More than a year after Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a bill to assign a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute crimes committed on SEPTA property in Philadelphia, stripping District Attorney Larry Krasner of some of his authority,

The Republican side of the ballot is far from set for the June 3 general election in Horn Lake, with four races headed to runoffs.

Former West Springfield Public Schools Superintendent Russell D. Johnston has been chosen to be the interim commissioner of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Michael S. Gordon / The Republican, File) Michael S. Gordon