The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a target of conservatives since President Barack Obama created it in 2011 after ...

By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Workers at the U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau protested against Elon ...

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But ...

Disparate fights in the early weeks of Trump 2.0 are linked together by the question of whether a president can take spending ...

The power of the purse belongs to Congress. But pliant lawmakers and a new budget chief appear set to hand control over to ...

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

The Trump administration backed down Wednesday from its sloppy order — after the edict was put on hold by a federal judge — imposing a sweeping federal spending freeze. But even as it backtracked, the ...

William F. (Bill) Miller, born on Jan. 18, 1950, in New Albany, Ind., passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in ...

William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know? William McKinley campaigning in 1896, when he was governor of Ohio.Credit ...

Jan. 22 (UPI) --Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, promised to help American taxpayers while undergoing a contentious confirmation ...

Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, testified in a second confirmation hearing Wednesday, this time before the Senate Budget Committee.