The Constitution gives Congress what’s called “the power of the purse,” or the ability to spend taxpayer money — not the ...

Some conservative scholars are admitting that Elon Musk's slash-and-burn approach to government is unconstitutional ...

Congress is proving little match for the Department of Government Efficiency as wary lawmakers watch it march through the ...

If a president wants to rescind or defer spending, a formal request must be submitted to Congress, which then has the final ...

More than ever before, the American people need and deserve a strong Congress to check and balance Trump’s increasingly ...

The Framers understood that part of human nature is to amass, entrench and ultimately abuse power, so there must be ...

Additionally, it is probably clear that not all acts of Congress are of equal importance. Congress regularly passed many rather innocuous bills including renaming post offices or designating a ...

All Republicans and 48 Democrats passed the ... That is more Democrats than the 37 who voted for the bill in the last Congress, which was stalled in the Senate due to Democratic leadership.

That means Congress would not only have to act to give Trump the ability to dissolve agencies in the first place, but it’d also have to approve any proposed Trump plan to eliminate FEMA.

Today, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo mandating a "temporary pause" on the disbursement of nearly all ... Congress could not condition disaster aid on changes in state election ...