Ben Werschkul

The most expensive government shutdown cost $3 billion. The price tag of a possible sequel this fall could run even higher.

Investors are trying to game out the effects of a possible government shutdown in three weeks. Past lapses in funding haven’t changed the trajectory of the...

The two powerful senators argue that what Washington needs to oversee technology giants in the years ahead is an entirely new agency.

A new report from an independent agency of the government projects oil production could increase between now and 2050.

Social Security has quickly become a pre-eminent 2024 campaign talking point and one of just a few issues across the GOP field presenting a clear choice for voters.

In a letter dated March 3 to Fed Chair Powell, Sen. Tim Scott and his GOP colleagues wrote that an ongoing Fed review may go beyond a 2018 law that eased regulations on smaller banks.

President Biden is set to formally release his 2024 budget proposal later this week and is already offering previews.

President Biden is set to formally release his 2024 budget proposal later this week and is already offering previews.

Ideas include bringing back paper statements and changing confusing terminology.

Washington’s ongoing conversation around what to do about TikTok advanced on several fronts this week.

Some industry voices have been grumbling about the many restrictions on the money earmarked for the plans.

For the moment, the economic measures from Washington D.C. aimed at Beijing remain limited. Asked whether she think the measures will be expanded anytime soon, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said“I don’t see that.”

Perhaps counterintuitively, the hurdles facing natural gas pipeline projects haven’t gotten lower in the last year even with spiking demand from Europe and a Biden administration vow to ramp up liquid natural gas exports in response.

Congressionally-mandated sales would bring the level of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to further lows not seen since the 1980s.

The agency further warned that its projected exhaustion date — commonly known as the X-date — remains uncertain.

A recent poll found that 62% of respondents feel Biden has accomplished “not very much” or “little or nothing” so far.

President Biden heads into Tuesday’s State of the Union address facing two seemingly contradictory political realities.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is keeping his distance from the ongoing debt ceiling brinkmanship.

After an anticlimactic end to 2022 on the issue, Congress is again getting set for another debate about policing lawmaker stock trading.

The GOP bill that has approximately 0% chance of becoming law is a talking point Democrats are keen to keep making.