Senate Democrats are demanding Republicans postpone a vote scheduled for Thursday on Russell Vought, President Trump’s ...

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 ...

Richard Stern joins “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the players, procedures, and policy options on the table for budget ...

Though not confirmed by the Senate, Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to lead the budget office, has vowed to try to move power over spending from Congress to the executive branch — a battle ...

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

While the Trump administration intends to ax funding for initiatives it views as out of step with its priorities, it didn’t mean to blow up funding for a broader suite of programs.

The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to ...

The Trump administration reversed its policy to freeze grants and loans while officials evaluated whether spending met the ...

After an attempt this week by President Donald Trump's budget office to freeze federal funding to determine if it aligned ideologically with his priorities, Senate Democrats, including Sen. Ben Ray ...