The Trump administration grabbed at the 'power of the purse' in Congress, using a little-known executive action that could ...

The Constitution gives Congress what’s called “the power of the purse,” or the ability to spend taxpayer money — not the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...

Follow The Big Take DC podcast today. Trump says the president should be able to decide how to spend taxpayer money – not ...

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

If a president wants to rescind or defer spending, a formal request must be submitted to Congress, which then has the final ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

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

Once back in office, Trump wasted no time testing that vision. He issued multiple Day One executive orders freezing funds to ...

the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. When a federal statute has been adopted that appropriates money, the president has no authority to refuse to spend it. Early in ...

Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...