About 60% of federal spending is mandatory — appropriations are automatic. About 27% is discretionary ... On March 12, U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., said most federal government spending ...

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) claimed his experience negotiating the Big Beautiful Bill Act leads him to believe it will take ...

Legislators use a growing variety of obscure accounting maneuvers to create massive loopholes for discretionary spending while allowing mandatory ... example of applying this approach to the U.S ...

"I think is really important is to allow independent auditors and independent inspectors general to be independent," said Ben ...

9/11 and Afghanistan are classic examples of blowback, a term the CIA first used in 1954 to explain the unintended consequence of a covert operation, in that case the U.S.’s overthrow of the ...

As Musk and his critics toss around statistics, here are some points to know about how the government spends $6.8 trillion taxpayer money. A separate category of spending covers discretionary ...

POLITIFACT CHIEF CORRESPONDENT LOU JACOBSON JOINS US LIVE NOW ... THE BIGGEST PIECES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING COME FROM THINGS THAT ARE MANDATORY TO SPEND MONEY ON, RIGHT?

(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday reiterated the long-held view of Fed chairs going back decades that growth in the U.S. federal debt needs to be reined in, but he ...

This mandatory supplement to discretionary spending would enable the Departments ... includes $3.2 billion over three years for the U.S. Government contribution to the International Development ...

Of course, defense policy is a legitimate function of government—a textbook example ... of discretionary spending can't be completely tracked. Let's hope the DOD is better at protecting us ...

As Musk and his critics toss around statistics, here are some points to know about how the government spends $6.8 trillion taxpayer money. A separate category of spending covers discretionary ...

Mandatory and discretionary spending are not equal in size ... The other issue is that the U.S. economy could lose enough tax revenue from the tariffs’ impacts to cut into or wipe out the ...