Franking privileges, and questions about them, are literally as old as the republic. But such spending has surged in recent Congresses, the lines between informing constituents and taxpayer-funded…

Sen. Ron Johnson blocked an attempt from Democrats to reverse the White House’s use of a loophole to unilaterally cut $810 million in congressionally approved funding.

Top Democratic Senate appropriators are raising questions over the use of Department of Homeland Security funding to produce political ads about President Donald Trump.

A health agency tasked with researching healthcare quality in the US has become embroiled in budget fights between the Trump administration and Congress.

Republicans in both chambers are rallying around President Donald Trump’s bid to freeze $810 million in federal funding, making it unlikely that Congress will prevent the cuts from taking effect.

An Education Department proposal that would make it easier for the agency to terminate federal funding has K-12 school leaders and advocates on edge after last year’s cuts left local school districts in disarray.

Two taxpayer-funded video advertisements lauding President Donald Trump violate spending laws and government ethics rules, key congressional Democrats and a watchdog group warned.

Key lawmakers in both parties are looking to block President Donald Trump’s controversial moves to remake Washington landmarks, especially when it comes to keeping the Kennedy Center standing.

Lawmakers in both parties are telling the Trump administration not to use the waning days of the fiscal year to redirect federal funding from its intended purpose, or let money dry up entirely.

American journalist Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for more than a decade. Nobody knows what happened to him. Austin’s mother and even the president of the United States believe he is still…

The White House said in a legal filing that it has restored access for now to three media outlets that President Donald Trumphad banned last week.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a ban on journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.

An Education Department proposal that would make it easier for the agency to terminate and discontinue grants is intensifying worries of permanent instability in the federal government’s funding regime for K-12 and higher education.

The White House is dropping plans to hand its budget office more oversight of scientific research grants, according to Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced the establishment of a new task force Tuesday to further the administration’s goal to reduce spending across agencies on common goods and services.

The US deficit has reached $1.97 trillion and is on track to pass 6% of gross domestic product this fiscal year, the latest milestone in a remarkable deterioration of the federal budget. With national debt at a record $40 trillion, the feeling that the music must stop at some point has jittery market watchers zeroed in on a jittery bond market.

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The Trump administration is on track to let $725 million for bipartisan foreign policy initiatives expire at the end of the fiscal year, top Democrats warned on Tuesday.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) doubled down on her opposition to a proposal to change how medical research grants are reviewed in a letter to the heads of the National Institutes of Health and the Office of Management and Budget Tuesday.

The Pentagon has told Congress it has spent $43.6 billion on Iran operations so far.

A former senator who helped craft the original Affordable Care Act legislation said there are active discussions about addressing the healthcare premium tax credits before the end of the year.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration would try to plan to lower the federal budget deficit through Congress by the end of this year if Democrats are able to flip either chambers in the November midterm elections.

The White House budget office missed a self-imposed commitment to provide fresh debt projections to Congress.

A key Republican appropriator expects Congress to advance a short-term stopgap during the lame duck to avert a December shutdown, he told Bloomberg Government Friday.

Democrats should push to increase the pay of congressional staff to retain top talent on Capitol Hill if they retake the House majority in November, a senior lawmaker argued.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had a “productive, forward looking” conversation with centrist Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez about her controversial voting defection this week, he told reporters Thursday.

Congress cleared funding legislation to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, sidestepping, at least temporarily, the partisan warfare that led to repeated disruptions over the last year.

A key Republican has prepared a menu of election security policies that could move forward in a party-line package and is pushing for a vote on at the bill before the midterms.

The top Democrat on the House panel overseeing funding for the Justice Department wants to ensure President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead for good.

The US Treasury Department excluded journalists from several media outlets, including Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal, from coverage of this week’s Group of 20 finance ministers summit in Asheville, North Carolina, amid global market volatility and the US-Iran conflict.

Washington is bracing for the possibility that the Trump administration will try to unilaterally cut federal spending in the coming weeks using a legally dubious procedural maneuver.

The House is expected to vote next week on a stopgap measure to fund the government past Sept. 30 using a process that requires bipartisan votes, according to a person familiar with the plans.

National Press Club members are needed to help spread the word about a training session geared to people outside of the journalism space. Will you pass along the information? The National Press Club…

The Education Department’s proposal to expand its authority to discontinue federal grants would align the agency’s grantmaking process according to the current White House’s preferences.

A variety of contenders are in the mix to replace James Braid as White House director of legislative affairs, a role key to advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda on Capitol Hill.

Democrats’ fight with the Trump administration over the power of the purse is set to reach new heights if the party wins control of the House in November, with Rep. Mark Pocan playing a key role.

James Braid, the White House director of legislative affairs, is leaving his post in September, President Donald Trump said Thursday.

Total US public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, and has now surged by a third in less than five years, as US lawmakers continue to shrug off calls to contend with historically wide…

House Democrats are using the chamber’s month-long recess to prepare for a packed legislative agenda in September and have teed up a call to discuss priorities.

Sen. Jim Justice said Monday he was “extremely doubtful” the Senate could take up a budget resolution before the November midterm elections.

The US Senate passed a short-term spending bill to avert a damaging government shutdown weeks before the November midterms, sidestepping President Donald Trump’s calls to also enact emergency funds for the Iran war and elements of a controversial voter identification proposal.

US lawmakers from both parties are seeking to boost federal funding for quantum computing as China and other countries race to transition from research to deployment of the nascent technology across defense, intelligence and cybersecurity.

The US Postal Service plans to seek money from Congress to help fund its operations, an unusual request by an agency that’s working to stem an ongoing financial crisis.

Senate Budget Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) unveiled changes to Republicans’ blueprint to speed billions toward recouping the costs of the Iran war and incentivizing states to carry out stricter voter verification procedures.

President Donald Trump doesn’t have legal authority to build a sprawling new White House ballroom without congressional approval, a federal appeals court held.

The Trump administration must immediately reimburse legal aid groups for services they provided to unaccompanied migrant children under a now-expired government contract, a federal trial court judge ruled.

Competing lobbying campaigns, stocked with unusual allies, ramped up Thursday over a delay in cracking down on hemp-derived products that senators put in a stopgap funding bill.