President Trump said Friday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative will look at the Defense ...

Federal spending can be broken down into two primary categories, mandatory and discretionary. Mandatory spending represents ...

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 ...

The budget request will be the first of President Trump's second term, and it will offer a clear window into the priorities ...

President Donald Trump is issuing a memorandum directing his Cabinet and other agency heads to review all federal funding ...

The order sent school districts and others scrambling to determine which federal funds for schools could be stopped.

The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants after the administration’s move to halt ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its Options for Reducing the Deficit, outlining a number of p ...

So, it essentially could cover all federal discretionary spending, and perhaps even be used to halt mandatory spending such as Medicaid. (States are reporting they have been unable to access ...

The federal government has congressionally approved buyout authority that’s capped at $25,000. Trump’s plan allows workers ...

U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The ...

Vought was one of the architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term.