Trump's Republican allies have been pushing for dramatic spending cuts, though he has promised to spare Social Security and Medicare, which make up roughly one-third of the budget. Another 11% of the ...

President Donald Trump's White House ordered a pause in all federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday, a sweeping decision ...

Chief among congressional Republicans’ priorities is an extension of the 2017 tax law, most of which is set to expire at the end of the year. A full extension is projected to cost about $4.6 trillion ...

Everyone wanted to know the same thing — had the Trump administration actually frozen federal funds and would they be able to ...

The unexpected memo left agencies scrambling to understand which programs were affected and how they should respond.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal aid programs.

The Social Security Administration is warning that Americans affected by the Social Security Fairness Act may need to be ...

Richard Nixon tried the same thing Donald Trump is trying in not spending money Congress has already approved. It did not end ...

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

President Donald Trump signed orders late Monday banning openly transgender service members from the U.S. military and suppressing any diversity initiatives, including prohibiting “un-American” ...

This is what “unsustainable” fiscal policy looks like. Lawmakers haven’t even started talking about this problem, much less ...

The order is "a potential five-alarm fire" for organizations that serve communities, nonprofit group executive says.