District 6 Rep. Cleo Fields talks about the rescinded federal funding freeze and how Louisiana can continue to improve early childhood education.

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

As expected, Judge McConnell granted a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from freezing spending.

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of ...

The Trump administration grabbed at the 'power of the purse' in Congress, using a little-known executive action that could ...

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

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to hike Medicare fees for doctors by 6.62%, offsetting inflation and cuts made this ...

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 ...

President Trump is considering eliminating FEMA citing inefficiency. States and climate advocates say FEMA needs a fix but it also needs to stay.

From the funding freeze to the federal-employee buyout, the White House doesn’t seem to know what its own teams are doing.

The impact on the U.S. economy as a whole will depend on how extensive the deportations are. While Donald Trump has threatened to carry out the “ largest deportation program in American history ” ...