There’s understandable confusion over Capitol Hill lingo discussing the budget process and appropriations/spending process — ...

It is right there, as clear as day in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, that the legislature controls the money.

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have begun taking their first steps on the long and winding road that constitutes the ...

A popular blogger called Taylor Cone gave some great advice for budding inventors, discussing the process of prototyping: build it, then break it, then fix it. That’s a strategy Congress ought to try.

Among his most controversial ideas is that the Impoundment Control Act, enacted more than 50 years ago to insulate the congressional appropriations process from intervention from the executive ...

"War Room" host Steve Bannon commented on this article in The Hill and said President Trump is being "hoodwinked" into continuing Biden's budget for the rest of the fiscal year. The Hill: Trump Might ...

The Trump administration has fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The move was widely expected as President Trump is likely to name a new director for the ...

In the US, however, we have added a bizarre and hazardous extra step to this process ... president is not actually bound by congressional appropriations — and can simply refuse to administer ...

The CFPB is an independent bureau within the Federal Reserve system, and it's funded outside of the congressional appropriations process, with its funding coming from the Fed. The CFPB was created ...