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

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abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...

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President Donald Trump‘s opponents celebrated when his administration rescinded a memorandum to freeze federal aid spending ...

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 ...

Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee boycotted a meeting Thursday to advance Russell Vought’s nomination to chair the ...

This story will be updated as more disclosures become available. Office of Management and Budget Director nominee Russell Vought Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Russell Vought is Trump's nominee to be ...

This story will be updated as more disclosures become available. Office of Management and Budget Director nominee Russell Vought Russell Vought is Trump's nominee to be the Director of the Office ...