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Byline: Jacob Bogage Republican plans to pass a massive new tax cut in the early days of President-elect Donald Trump's second term are running into a major obstacle: the price [...]

A very big ax may soon fall on the federal government. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency in Donald Trump's incoming administration. The [...]

Two bills on pediatric cancer research and a football stadium site had been left out of the main spending package, but passed early Saturday as separate legislation. After a tumultuous [...]

The president-elect weighed in against the huge spending package after Elon Musk had spent the day warning Republicans not to support it. The blowup left the compromise on life support. [...]

The Republican speaker held on to control of the House, but will preside over an even smaller majority at a time when President-elect Donald J. Trump will need his help [...]

Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017. What counts as a tax cut? [...]

Budget reconciliation is a legislative process in the U.S. Congress that streamlines the passage of certain budget-related bills. Rooted in Section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act, reconciliation helps align [...]

To the American citizen, congressional budget accounting is inscrutable. But using some simplifying assumptions from budget documents, one sees that, from 15 executive departments and numerous commissions and bureaus, a [...]

The president, who plans to travel to North Carolina this week, said he might need to call Congress in for a special session after it did not include additional disaster [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Congress averted a government shutdown last week with a temporary funding extension, but now an uglier funding fight awaits in December - with even more momentous fiscal [...]

The bill averts a campaign-season shutdown but ensures another spending fight in Congress during its lame-duck session in December. President Biden signed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that averts [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House is poised to approve a stopgap spending bill Wednesday and send a $231 million infusion to the Secret Service, setting the stage for Congress to [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The Republican-controlled House is on the verge this week of defying both former president Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a government shutdown fight [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Congressional lawmakers on Sunday agreed to a deal to avert a looming government shutdown, advancing a three-month stopgap spending agreement with emergency funding for the Secret Service [...]

Both Republicans and Democrats opposed the stopgap funding bill, which was tied to new rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The House on Wednesday defeated a [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor The House on Wednesday rejected Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to fund the government for six months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching government shutdown deadline [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor The House on Wednesday appeared poised to reject Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to fund the government for six months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House will vote Wednesday on the plan by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to fund the government, the speaker announced Tuesday - though the proposal lacks even [...]

The speaker's first effort to avert a government shutdown ran into a buzz saw of opposition from both far-right and mainstream Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson's initial plan to avert a [...]

This month, we wanted to highlight some of the new energy-related programs and announcements from DOD, DOE, and other agencies, as well as other relevant news in the energy and [...]

On Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, the House and Senate passed the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (H.R. 9747), or the three-month continuing resolution (CR) until Dec. 20, 2024. The [...]

Highlights During the first two years of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Congress appropriated significant amounts of funding outside the regular annual process for several major multiyear initiatives, including the [...]

The recently elected Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Appropriations, Mr Mmusi Maimane, invites stakeholders and interested parties to submit written or oral contributions on the 2024 Appropriation Bill. Tabled [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon: Provides funding for Nebraska Defense and Counterterrorism Research Washington - Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) announced [...]

Federal Bill C-69, Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 Following the release of Federal Budget 2024 on April 14, 2024, draft legislation to implement certain provisions of the Budget was [...]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Second Adjustments Appropriation Bill and the Electoral Matters Amendment Bill. Image source: renjith krishnan – https://www.123rf.com In signing the two Bills, President [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) believes there is a simple answer to the question of why House Democrats are more effective at working together than members of his [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage The House approved a $1.2 trillion spending package Friday hours before a midnight government shutdown deadline, pressing the Senate against a ticking clock to pass the measure [...]