Powerless to stop the president or Russell Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled an all ...

Follow the latest coverage as President Donald Trump participates in the National Prayer Breakfast. Live updates as 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abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...

Disparate fights in the early weeks of Trump 2.0 are linked together by the question of whether a president can take spending ...

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.

President Donald Trump‘s opponents celebrated when his administration rescinded a memorandum to freeze federal aid spending ...

I hope you will join me in urging our Senators to do everything they can to push back against the following Presidential power grab and to oppose confirmation of Russell Vought’s nomination to lead ...

Some conservative scholars are admitting that Elon Musk's slash-and-burn approach to government is unconstitutional ...

Focusing on the concrete consequences of Donald Trump’s funding freezes, rather than abstract arguments about democracy, ...

That is by far the most important thing Trump has done, or tried to do. Some of the rest of his decrees are substantive, most ...

The recent federal funding freeze spurred immediate finger-pointing inside the Trump administration, with anonymous sources ...