The transit agency will need to build a coalition of local elected officials, business groups, and more to advocate for funding and avoid dire cuts.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Vince Gray warned Congress and the White House to reach a tax and debt reduction deal before midnight December 31.

Making the rounds on the Internet today is word that Starbucks is instructing the employees of its Washington-area locations to take up arms in the battle for fiscal sanity.

Who better to explain the fight over federal tax rates than Springfield’s meanest, richest, Republican-est resident?

Maryland residents would be hit hard by tax increases if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff.

President Obama apparently loved answering questions from random Reddit users so much, he’s doing the same for Twitter.

Outraged over the possibility that a budget deficit cutting deal could bring severe cuts to federal programs that combat AIDS and HIV, a group of protesters got naked outside House Speaker John A. Boehner’s office on Capitol Hill.

In his first public statement since being re-elected on Tuesday, the president reiterated his campaign plank to seek a tax increase on Americans who earn more than $250,000, but skipped out on answering any questions.