RIFs are not themselves violations of federal spending law, watchdog says, though the administration is violating the law in ...

The Trump Administration has been engaging in a wholesale attack on Congress’s spending power by refusing to provide legally ...

Trump administration officials are weighing a controversial maneuver aimed at allowing them to block federal funding ...

The White House defended the freeze. “There is no uncertainty in this building,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. But ...

The Health and Human Services Department illegally withheld payments from Head Start for the first months of President Donald ...

Impoundment is an executive act by the president to withhold, delay or reject funding that Congress has already allocated. However, impoundment powers were significantly scaled back in 1974 with ...

It’s the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration ...

Republicans are seeking to undermine the Government Accountability Office as it investigates, and considers suing, over the ...

But looming over the whole rescissions process are administration officials’ repeated threats to challenge the Impoundment ...