The foreign aid budget accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget or around $40 billion, according to the State Department, yet thousands of Americans are employed by businesses that work in the ...

Senate GOP leaders have endorsed a two-bill strategy while House Republicans are plowing ahead with Trump’s desire for ‘one big, beautiful bill’ ...

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 ...

A former presidential candidate returned Friday to New Hampshire to rally state legislators behind an effort to dust off and exercise an unused power under the U.S. Constitution.

Democrats’ response this week to President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze all federal grants and loans already approved by ...

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

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

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 Trump is considering eliminating FEMA citing inefficiency. States and climate advocates say FEMA needs a fix but it also needs to stay.

The president’s pick for budget chief is on the verge of confirmation amid clashes over a spending freeze and worries about ...

Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of the purse.

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...