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Dozens of longtime members of Congress have amassed millionaire-level wealth over their careers. Among the richest are former ...

How in the world did they get so rich? To be clear, we're not talking about billionaire moguls like Elon Musk or Mark Cuban - ...

Elon expressed concerns about the unexplained wealth of lawmakers earning $174,000 annually but accumulating millions ...

Donald Trump's tax cuts during his first term led to huge economic prosperity that was decimated by Bidenomics, and restoring ...

Democrats, in a rut with virtually no power in Congress, and the lack of a national leader to take on President Donald Trump, want Hakeem Jeffries to step up.

Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin on Sunday, Elon Musk heavily implied that his team at the Department of Government ...

The world’s richest man is dying to figure out how politicians on Capitol Hill got “strangely wealthy” despite their ...

Bernie Sanders isn’t interested in running for president again. It isn’t clear if Ocasio-Cortez wants to, either.

The New York progressive believes economic populism is the path forward for Democrats. Can she unite her party around that?

It was the cartoonist Walt Kelly’s Pogo who some years ago used the phrase “We have met the enemy, and he is us” to describe ...