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 — ...
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority
Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through ...
Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting ...
CNN analyst says Democrats' 'crazy' government shutdown talk 'makes no sense politically'
CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston commented on some congressional Democrats considering a partial shutdown to protest ...
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CNN analyst says Democrats' 'crazy' government shutdown talk 'makes no sense politically'
CNN analyst Mark Preston blasted the "crazy" idea by some Democrats to initiate a partial government shutdown to protest President Donald Trump’s spending cuts. While closing a "CNN News Central ...
Trump officials struggled to reinstate nuclear weapons staff after firing hundreds
Officials backtracked on the terminations Friday after multiple members of Congress petitioned Energy Sec. Chris Wright to ...
How Elon Musk set off two weeks of chaos across Washington
Elon Musk and his allies have spent the last two weeks barreling full speed into multiple government agencies, causing ...
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USAID employees detail harrowing exits from DR Congo amid violence as Trump administration dismantles agency
US Agency for International Development employees this week recounted the panic they experienced in the days after they were ...
Consumer watchdog ordered to stop fighting financial abuse and to work from home as HQ temporarily shuts down
Russell Vought, the newly installed acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent an email Saturday night ...
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Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority
Cory Booker, when asked by CNN if he thought Democrats were doing ... and then affirming he does not support any kind of government shutdown. “The levers that we have are limited, but at the ...
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Trump’s grant gambit threatens to wreck the goldilocks economy he inherited
New York CNN — A two-page memo ... “This is essentially a unilateral partial federal government shutdown by the president.” Only it’s potentially worse than the federal shutdowns most ...