As the top Senate appropriator, Sen. Susan Collins was expected to be a key player in negotiations this summer over the sweeping tax and spending bill proposed by President Donald Trump. But as the ...

Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up due to rising health care costs, new SSA law BY Associated Press Washington, D.C. UPDATED 5:08 PM ET Jun. 20, 2025 ...

Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday voted against President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill that would cut $1 trillion in health care and food assistance while strengthening border security and ...

Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote as 3 Republican senators voted against the bill. Here's what's in it.

The Senate has hauled President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts to passage after a turbulent ...

The finish line will come after a whirlwind of votes, nicknamed a "vote-a-rama," on what are expected to be dozens of ...

Some 69.4 million people — about 1 in 5 U.S. residents — received a payment from the program in April 2025. Most of them are retired older adults, many reliant on their earned benefits to put food on ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes on amendment to the Trump-backed Republican domestic policy bill.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. The law set a January 1937 deadline to start collecting payroll taxes from the first 26 million workers covered by ...

R epublican Senator Susan Collins received a warning about the unpopularity of President Donald Trump 's "Big Beautiful Bill" in Maine as she considers whether to support the legislation—and as she ...

The Maine Democratic Party has launched a website targeting Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) for votes she they say have caused a significant rollback in abortion rights. The release of the ...