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

The economic fallout began Saturday evening as Canada said it will retaliate with a 25% tariff on $30 billion (Canadian dollars) of U.S. goods, with another C$125 billion to follow in three weeks.

President Donald Trump‘s opponents celebrated when his administration rescinded a memorandum to freeze federal aid spending ...

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 Trump signed an executive order calling for a federal "funding freeze," and Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently issued ...

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, ...

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional ...

The Trump administration backed down Wednesday from its sloppy order — after the edict was put on hold by a federal judge — imposing a sweeping federal spending freeze. But even as it backtracked, the ...

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a ...

For example, Trump cannot on his own repeal legislation like the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. But OMB could ...