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

District 6 Rep. Cleo Fields talks about the rescinded federal funding freeze and how Louisiana can continue to improve early childhood education.

Discover the intriguing history of India's Union Budget as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present her eighth ...

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 ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of ...

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 ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to hike Medicare fees for doctors by 6.62%, offsetting inflation and cuts made this ...

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.