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The current government shutdown is the just latest reminder of what Americans already know: the federal government is dysfunctional. Nowhere is this more evident than in Congress, where a broken ...

If many of us operated our household budgets like the federal government, we would be considered reckless and irresponsible. And yet, here we are again, facing another showdown over a shutdown. The ...

As the federal budget process unfolds, the picture is becoming disturbingly clear. The budget proposals from the Trump Administration and its allies in Congress seek to dismantle the foundations that ...

Federal spending is in the spotlight this year like never before, as the Trump administration has bypassed Congress and held up billions of dollars lawmakers had already approved for education.

Sometimes it can seem that AI is all that anyone wants to talk about when it comes to government technology. But that's not the only big trend of the moment. Federal funding stands as another hot — ...

This week, the administration’s budget-and-more bill passed the House by a single vote. After the Memorial Day recess, it will be heard by the Senate via the budget reconciliation process, meaning it ...

With the federal budget process now in full swing, Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole is taking the lead in a race against the clock to advance all 12 appropriations bills that form the basis of next ...

Mr. Kahn is the acting director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. He worked for two decades as the staff director of the House Budget Committee. For the ...

Messy fights over funding the federal government have become all too familiar in American politics. Why are we like this? On the show today, The Brookings Institution’s Molly Reynolds joins Kimberly ...

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