The government’s $2 trillion discretionary budget contains the only available levers for cuts — and 45% of it is employee ...

In a post-midnight vote along party lines, bleary-eyed Republican members of Congress passed a tax-and-spend bill that will ...

The White House is proposing reducing the federal government’s discretionary budget by more than 22%. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought informed Chair Susan Collins, R ...

The issue of states regulating — or not regulating — AI is back in a big way.

OMB chief Russell Vought expressed excitement that Congress appeared to be on the verge of codifying into law roughly $9 ...

Plus, state and local spending have risen as discretionary federal spending has slumped. But it’s worth reminding ourselves that our big government is actually a lot smaller (as a share of GDP ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report analyzing 76 policy options for reducing the federal budget deficit, including spending cuts, entitlement and tax reforms.

President Donald Trump seeks a 93% funding cut to a quasi-federal government agency responsible for promoting economic development and community building in Appalachia. West Virginia is the sole state ...

Conservatives want to pare federal discretionary spending back to 2022 levels, which would mean cutting more than $100 billion from agency budgets each year.

is that then the target for these cuts. yeah. so that’s also a sort of tricky because discretionary spending is about a quarter of the federal budget. AND THEN HALF OF THAT QUARTER IS FOR DEFENSE.

The federal discretionary budget request allocates $842 billion to defense and $907.2 billion to civilian agencies and departments. The five departments receiving the most funding are the Air ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report analyzing 76 policy options for reducing the federal budget deficit, including spending cuts, entitlement and tax reforms.