Departments are currently operating under a short-term budget extension set to expire in December. About Leo Shane III Leo covers Congress, Veterans Affairs and the White House for Military Times.

They’re not even close. The Congressional Budget Office has a longstanding list of “options for reducing the deficit” that Congress routinely ignores. Dozens of think tanks have blueprints ...

which allows budget-related legislation to pass through Congress on simple majority votes without being subject to the Senate's 60-vote threshold to overcome the legislative filibuster.

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MANILA, Philippines — Although heated sometimes, the marathon sessions on the 2025 national budget can also be entertaining at times. This was evident on Tuesday as the Senate tackled the ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s aides are readying unconventional strategies to implement at least some recommendations from a new government spending commission with or without congressional ...

President Luis Abinader has sent the Congress a series of modifications to the 2025 National Budget. In the re-adjustments requested by the President, there is a request for additional funds to be ...

Reconciliation is a special legislative process created as part of the Budget Act of 1974. It is intended to help lawmakers make the tax and mandatory spending changes necessary to meet the levels ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s designated debt-busters, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, last week wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal providing the fullest accounting yet of their plans to ...

Apportionment is the process the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) uses to allocate funds to an agency (typically every three months, but sometimes every month) to ensure that the funds last as ...

In a rare joint press conference on the side-lines of the 106th Congress of Mayors ... €10 and €11 billion in the proposed 2025 budget, which the government has labelled as "five billion ...

Republicans used this in the first two years of Trump's first term, as did Democrats during the first two years of President Joe Biden's term, when they had control of Congress. Yet budget ...