America’s founding fathers — having just won independence from a monarchy — designed the Constitution to prevent a dangerous ...

The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday afternoon amid chaos and backlash, was the ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...

In the interview and again during the town hall, Merkley, the senior Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, targeted ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck about the constitutional issues raised by the Trump administration's efforts to pause federal loans and grants last week.

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

The Tesla leader is a big-picture visionary, while the OMB pick is an in-the-weeds technocrat.

Rather than take part — and knowing they’d be in the minority even if they all did show up and vote no — Democrats decided not to show up at all.

Democrats opposed a now-rescinded funding freeze by Trump and refused to show up for OMB nominee Russell Vought's confirmation hearing.

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, ...

Multiple groups called on the Senate to reject President Trump’s pick for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, ...

On Capitol Hill, Trump faced bipartisan complaints as constituents and affected groups flooded lawmakers’ offices with phone calls.