A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to ...

Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...

Trump's deadlines for tariffs, federal worker buyouts and RTO, federal funding freeze, TikTok, and more are coming up. Here'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 ...

Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of the purse.

House Republican leaders recently outlined a timeline for kicking off the procedures for passing budget legislation meant to ...

The executive orders On Jan. 20, the day he was inaugurated, Donald Trump hit the nation with 46 "presidential actions" in one day, many of them via executive order. (He has since issued several more.

RSC leaders met behind closed doors at House Republicans' annual retreat to hash out their stance. GOP lawmakers were at ...

Following the January inauguration, a flurry of executive orders, and Senate confirmations, the timing of when federal tax ...

"What I like to do in all of my jobs is to use the tools of government management, budget, procurement, all of the tools that ...

Republicans on the House Budget Committee are considering more than 200 potential budget cuts, tax breaks, tariffs and changes to programs like Medicare and Social Security in preparation for ...

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