Congress. Fixing Congress' Broken Appropriations Process Is Worth This Mess This week's Republican revolt against Kevin McCarthy is actually a rank-and-file revolt against the top-down process ...

Congress has a duty to advance robust pro-life policies in the 118th Congress, and the appropriations process is its best opportunity. Provisions of the following spending bills will be reviewed: ...

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 lays out the process for approving spending bills for departments and agencies before the beginning of the fiscal year on Oct. 1.

Congress is struggling to complete action on President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," known as the fiscal 2025 ...

GAO has frustrated Trump administration executives and Republican lawmakers with its enforcement of the 1974 Impoundment ...

With the federal government once again staring at a funding gap, we decided to update our historical look at the federal budgeting and appropriations process – and Congress’ chronic difficulties in ...

The following is the Nov. 17, 2022, Congressional Research Service Defense Primer: Defense Appropriations Process. From the report. The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse in ...

Since Congress designed and implemented the last budget process in 1974, only on four occasions have all of the appropriations bills for discretionary spending been passed on time. Veronique de ...

As Trump and Musk loom, congressional spending leaders' morale hits rock bottom. The Appropriations process on Capitol Hill may have never been so broken.

The money allocated by Congress — either through the 12-bill regular order process or through a mix of continuing resolutions and omnibus bills — is known as discretionary spending.