A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to talk about the handover of power.

House members may have been out of town for their first recess of the 119th Congress, but that was no impediment to another ...

As expected, Judge McConnell granted a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from freezing spending.

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

The Trump administration grabbed at the 'power of the purse' in Congress, using a little-known executive action that could ...

The United States government maintained an absolutely consistent if remarkably frustrating approach to running the nation for almost 250 years because our forefathers established a form of ...

Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...

The local law enforcement agencies that protect Trump when he is at his Mar-a-Lago Club are asking for a federal grant to be ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

President Donald Trump chose from his most loyal supporters when he created his Cabinet and appointed others to key roles within his administration.

Congress could save billions by closing federal budget “loopholes” that have cost taxpayers more than $300 billion, a ...

The MSNBC host reflected on an "American hero" during a previous crash whom he called the "worst thing you can be in Donald ...