An unchecked, unelected oligarch is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how ...

I am 100% behind President Donald Trump trying to right-size the federal government. Really, all taxpayers should be.

President Trump’s budget team ordered a temporary pause on certain types of “federal financial assistance” spending besides Social Security, Medicare and other select programs pending a review.

Sometimes a constitutional crisis sneaks up on you, shrouded in darkness, revealing itself gradually. Other times it ...

By Nicholas Nehamas Reporting from Washington The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies to subject hundreds of grant programs that account for trillions of dollars in spending to ...

A month later, this obscure Treasury office is now a key battlefront in a wider war being waged by Trump and his allies over federal spending. Signs of the fight emerged this week. The top civil ...

The goal: identify and weed out inefficient and counterproductive government spending. Reform could not come soon enough. Health-care costs, in particular, are ballooning the federal deficit and ...

“The law is unequivocal: Congress controls federal spending, and no executive action can bypass this authority.” For many smaller nonprofits, a delay in accessing federal grant funding could ...

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from imposing a sweeping pause on trillions of dollars in federal spending, capping a frenetic day of disruption to government ...

“The law is unequivocal: Congress controls federal spending, and no executive action can bypass this authority.” — Jillian Blanchard, Lawyers for Good Government For many smaller ...

On Monday, the most egregious was his announcement that he is freezing the spending on all federal grants and loans beginning at 5 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday. California and six other states are ...