The 5 Worst Things About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding ...
Congress, not the president, decides on government spending − a constitutional law professor explains how the ‘power of the purse’ works
Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...
Democrats rage against DOGE — but shouldn’t everyone be against waste?
Democrats cannot have it both ways: they are either against waste and fraud sucking up taxpayer dollars, or they are for it.
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You’re hearing a lot about budget reconciliation in Congress. What does that mean?
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have begun taking their first steps on the long and winding road that constitutes the ...
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CRS report on CFPB budget and funding structure receives update
On February 4, the Congressional Research Service updated its report on the CFPB’s budget and funding structure, finding the Bureau’s ...
In Congress, what’s the difference between a budget resolution, reconciliation and spending bills?
There’s understandable confusion over Capitol Hill lingo discussing the budget process and appropriations/spending process — ...
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Fixing the budget process by breaking it
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.
Do Elon Musk and DOGE have power to cut spending, close agencies?
"The president does not have unilateral authority to shut down an expenditure, or instrumentalities funded by Congress, ...
Warren: Only Congress — not Trump or Musk — can 'get rid of the CFPB'
Senator Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that the law clearly states only Congress can shutter the CFPB, setting up a ...
House budget blueprint ready for close-up amid GOP ‘angst’
Lawmakers made clear that the resolution will likely undergo rewrites at the Budget Committee as Republicans continue to seek ...
My Fellow Members of Congress: This Is a Naked Power Grab
It is right there, as clear as day in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, that the legislature controls the money.
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Why contractors are fuming at what’s going on at USAID
DOGE sent thousands of employees home and took the USAID name off the door. Now USAID contractors are left with lots of unpaid invoices.