The Beltway swamp hates it, but President Donald Trump is bound and determined to shrink the federal budget and its massive deficit, and to shrink the 2 million-plus federal workforce.

Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of ...

The Beltway swamp hates it, but the president is bound and determined to shrink the federal budget and its huge deficit.

Columbus Mayor Mary Ferdon said she was “relieved” that the Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a memo freezing ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to freeze funding for Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and other vital programs. • The Trump administration issued an OMB memo freezing federal grants and funding, ...

The immediate threat by the Trump administration of cutting off federal funding seems to have passed, but the incident is affecting Gov. JB Pritzker's thinking on what promises to be a tight state ...

Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for budget chief, has a plan: cut taxes for the wealthy, eliminate regulations on corporate ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) sought to keep expectations in check during an afternoon news ...

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Donald Trump owes a debt of gratitude to Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan, who blocked his vague order ...

We all learned early in life that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the “Power of the Purse” on spending to act as a check on the executive branch, but it sure hasn’t looked like that in the early ...