President Donald Trump's early moves to control spending test authority of Congress
A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.
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Trump budget chief pick advances amid Democratic boycott
Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee voted Thursday to approve President Trump's budget chief nominee in the midst of a boycott by the panel's Democrats. Why it matters: Democrats are sounding ...
Russell Vought isn't a normal Cabinet pick. Democrats were right to make a scene.
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.
OMB general counsel faces backlash following federal funding freeze order: Sources
Senior White House officials had not reviewed the Office of Management and Budget's sweeping order freezing federal grants ...
Meet the Trump Budget Hawk Partnering With Musk’s DOGE
The Tesla leader is a big-picture visionary, while the OMB pick is an in-the-weeds technocrat.
Dysfunctional U.S. Budget Process Deserves Some Blame For Pause Chaos
Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...
How an arcane Treasury Department office became ground zero in the war over federal spending
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.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that tariffs on Canada and Mexico will begin on February 1, as decided earlier dismissing reports that claimed the tariffs will be deferred ...