Budget

Budget Talks Will Break Down if White House Bypasses Congress to Cut Foreign Aid, Pelosi Warns

The Democratic leader stresses that the State Department must be allowed to continue spending money while Congress considers any rescission request, per a GAO legal analysis.

  • Erich Wagner

Lawmakers Accuse Trump Administration of Circumventing Congress on Weather Service Staffing

Employees say they are working more overtime on account of vacancies than they are allowed to get paid for.

  • Eric Katz

White House Pauses Some Diplomatic Spending, and the Money Could Eventually Be Cut Off Altogether

The move could provide a path for OMB to circumvent spending levels spelled out by Congress.

  • Eric Katz

Senate Sends 2-Year Budget Deal to Trump, Shifting Focus to Shutdown-Averting Spending Bills

Lawmakers now have through Sept. 30 to pass appropriations.

  • Eric Katz

Analysis: Can Anyone Stop Trump’s Border Wall?

The Supreme Court temporarily allowed the administration to begin construction. That doesn’t mean victory for the president is certain.

  • Dror Ladin, The Atlantic

House Passes Two-Year Budget Deal to Avoid Big Across-the-Board Spending Cuts

Trump says he will sign the bill to boost spending by $320B, but the Senate must act first.

  • Eric Katz

Senator Says He Has Trump and McConnell's Support for Bill to End Shutdowns Permanently

Momentum grows for bipartisan bill to prevent lawmakers from leaving D.C. until they pass spending bills.

  • Eric Katz

Senate Panel Backs Bill Requiring Greater Transparency on Federal Spending

Goal is for taxpayers to have access to more information on where their money is going. 

  • Courtney Bublé

White House and Lawmakers Agree to Two-Year Budget Deal

The agreement would lift spending caps and raise the debt ceiling.

  • Eric Katz

Everyone Dreads Shutdowns, So Why Do They Keep Happening?

The Antideficiency Act is supposed to clarify what happens when Congress fails to pass a budget. But it hasn’t worked out that way.

  • Charles S. Clark

Viewpoint: The Debt Ceiling And Why We Should Kill It

The U.S. hit the debt ceiling in March and is expected to run out of ways to get around the new $22 trillion limit by September. An economist explains why the ceiling is a dysfunctional relic.

  • Steven Pressman, The Conversation

Democrats Set New Deadline for Spending Agreement, Debt Deal

"It's all about money," House speaker said of the holdup in negotiations.

  • Eric Katz

Treasury Asks Congress to Act This Month on Debt Ceiling

Lawmakers had hoped to keep borrowing limit tied to negotiations on budget caps.

  • Eric Katz
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Viewpoint: How We Tamed the F-35’s Spiraling Costs — and Created a Model for Controlling Waste

The former defense secretary says defending America means defending taxpayers’ dollars.

  • Ash Carter, Defense One

Pentagon Puts Price Tag of July 4 Pageantry at $1.2 Million

Most of the money for flyovers and tank displays came from training budgets.

  • Charles S. Clark

Congress Remains at a Stalemate on Shutdown-Avoiding Deal, As Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms

Lawmakers may have less time to raise the debt ceiling than originally thought.

  • Eric Katz

Lawmakers Look Into the Costs of Trump's July 4 'Display of Pageantry'

House appropriators plan hearing as Park Service, Pentagon gather numbers.

  • Charles S. Clark

GOP Senators Pan Proposal to Avoid a Shutdown Through a 1-Year Stopgap Spending Bill

A continuing resolution would hurt military readiness, the lawmakers say.

  • Amelia Gruber

Trump’s White House Staff Is Smaller and Better Paid Than Obama’s

Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is the top earner at $203,000 a year.

  • Charles S. Clark

White House Has 'Every Intention' of Avoiding Shutdown Despite Budget Impasse

Administration floats one-year stopgap spending measure to keep agencies funded at fiscal 2019 levels.

  • Eric Katz

NASA Managers and Contractors Significantly Lowballed Space Mission Costs, Watchdog Found

Despite cost overruns and schedule delays, the space agency awarded Boeing and Lockheed Martin $200 million in performance awards, GAO noted.

  • Charles S. Clark