Lawmakers are navigating a familiar budget crisis, but a rarely used presidential tool is shifting the balance of power and ...

The pending government shutdown also is about a constitutional fight over Congressional and presidential power.

The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign ...

A fight between Republicans and Democrats could lead to an Oct. 1 federal government shutdown, leaving President Donald Trump ...

"When we get into power next time, we damn well better make sure that D.C. is a state, that Puerto Rico is a state," Ken Martin said.

The Supreme Court is allowing Donald Trump to freeze $4 billion in foreign aid payments despite Congress already allocating ...

Trump could use a shutdown to dismantle government functions, wrote Max Stier, chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on improving the federal government.

The 2002 authorization for use of military force that Congress passed prior to the Iraq war has been used to justify military ...

With no spending deal in sight and the Oct. 1 funding deadline fast approaching, such a shutdown now seems increasingly unavoidable.

Democrats can start clawing back some control from the White House by standing firm in talks over $1.8 trln in the budget.

The administration says it can cancel nearly $5 billion in international aid with or without approval from lawmakers under a little-tested theory called a “pocket rescission.” ...

In June of 2025, President Donald J. Trump directed US aircraft to drop 30,000 pound bombs on nuclear facilities in Iran. Some legislators in Congress and some media complained that this was a ...