White House Budget Freeze Tried to Flip Script on Busted Budget Process
Presidents from both parties, including Trump, have let the budget grow and grow. The White House is trying to make changes on its own.
White House budget office rescinds memo ordering funding freeze after chaos
The White House memo issued late Monday led to chaos and confusion as to what programs would be impacted by the freeze.
White House Revokes Spending Freeze in Face of Legal Challenges
The first major domestic policy reversal of the Republican president's new term came after one federal judge had temporarily blocked the freeze and before another judge was due to
White House defends dramatic federal funding freeze
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt vehemently defended the administration’s sweeping freeze on federal aid, arguing Tuesday in her first press briefing that it was critical to scrutinize the scope of the government’s spending.
Balance of Power: White House Reverses Spending Freeze
Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill
Nutrition Programs Unaffected by Trump Funding Freeze, White House Says
Nutrition programs that deliver food assistance to millions of U.S. families will not be affected by a White House pause on federal grants and loans, a senior official said on Tuesday. The White House's Office of Management and Budget said in a memo on Monday that federal grants and loans would be put on hold for review to ensure the programs were aligned with President Donald Trump's priorities,
White House rescinds order freezing federal grants and loans
The freeze on hundreds of billions of dollars of federal grants had been temporarily halted by a judge on Tuesday.
White House rolls back its federal grant freeze
The White House's pause on federal grants and loans appears to be over. A memo sent by Matthew J. Vaeth at the Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday, January 29, and addressed to the heads of executive departments and agencies,
Congressional Budget Office Lowers U.S. Population Projections
This week, the Congressional Budget Office once again reduced its population projections for the U.S. for 2025-2055. Last ...
Anti-Trump columnist delivers withering assessment of 'failed' Biden presidency as he leaves office
George Will, an anti-Trump columnist for The Washington Post, wrote a scathing assessment of President Biden's actions as ...
Federal budget deficit expected to soar to $2.7 trillion in 2035, highlighting pressure on GOP
As congressional Republicans struggle to keep deficits in check while extending their sweeping 2017 tax cuts, the ...
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The Budget Baseline as Trump 2.0 Begins
A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors. Amid much talk about the problem ...
New budget projections show US hitting debt record in 4 years: CBO
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its latest 10-year budget outlook, which projected the U.S. is on track ...
US budget deficit to hit $1.9 trillion in 2025: CBO
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected on Friday that the federal budget deficit would hit $1.9 trillion in fiscal ...
Trump plans an audacious grab for congressional ‘power of the purse’
As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of ...
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Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them.
Below is a list of all those programs, identified by the Office of Management and Budget for examination to ensure they ...
House Budget Republicans eye more than 200 spending cuts, tax changes for major bill
Republicans on the House Budget Committee are considering more than 200 potential budget cuts, tax breaks, tariffs and ...