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

Rachel Maddow points out how Senate Democrats are using their power in the minority to boycott Trump's OMB pick Russell ...

Senate Republicans advanced the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the White House budget office as Democrats boycotted the ...

President Trump signed an executive order calling for a federal "funding freeze," and Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently issued ...

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, ...

His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that ...

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional ...

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer took a small victory lap around the White House’s decision to rescind an order for ...

Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a ...

For example, Trump cannot on his own repeal legislation like the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. But OMB could ...