In Congress, what’s the difference between a budget resolution, reconciliation and spending bills?
There’s understandable confusion over Capitol Hill lingo discussing the budget process and appropriations/spending process — ...
Democratic Illinois members of Congress blast Trump budget cuts
Democratic Illinois members of Congress gathered Monday to criticize Trump administration budget cuts to federal agencies and ...
Congress closing in on shutdown deadline with no clear plan
Congress is struggling to strike a deal to keep the government funded as a looming deadline to prevent a shutdown next month ...
5 Tips to Protect Medicaid From Congressional Budget Cuts
As Congress contemplates next steps on budget reconciliation, the nonprofit Medicare Rights Center suggests the following actions to prevent cuts to Medic ...
OC Rep. Mike Levin answers questions about the federal budget and nuclear waste removal efforts
Republicans and Democrats will need to work together on the ongoing budget process, says the lawmaker who sits on the ...
DOGE Can't Slash Government Without Congress
That was the Democratic line on the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just months ago. But ever since Elon ...
New York Magazine3d
6 Big Problems Congressional Republicans Need to Solve
We’ve been told that planning for the big congressional budget bills needed to impose Trump’s will on the country began well before last November’s election gave the GOP a trifecta and ...
Trump Issues Order to Expand His Power Over Agencies Congress Made Independent
The president has already challenged statutory protections against summarily firing officials overseeing such agencies ...
Virginia Mercury5d
You’re hearing a lot about budget reconciliation in Congress. What does that mean?
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have begun taking their first steps on the long and winding road that constitutes the ...
Congress faces budget showdown with competing plans
Republicans in the House and Senate are proposing competing budget plans to advance President Donald Trump's agenda, with the ...
Senate GOP pushes ahead with budget bill that funds Trump’s mass deportations and border wall
Senate Republicans pushed ahead late Tuesday on a scaled-back budget bill, a $340 billion package to give the Trump ...
The Heritage Foundation8h
Budget Reconciliation Priorities for the 119th Congress
The Issue Reconciliation is the prime way for the 119th Congress to enact the mandate that the American people gave President Donald Trump to restore America. Reconciliation shouldprotect the border, ...