Earlier Monday, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell had said that the Trump administration had continued to block federal ...

The nation may be edging closer to a constitutional crisis as senior White House officials bristle over a string of court ...

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

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

President Trump said Wednesday he plans to sign an executive order to permit the Department of Defense and the Department of ...

Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (who is Jewish) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all denounced ...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has criticized several of President Donald Trump's decisions in the first month of his second term ...

DC federal judge on Feb. 3  extended her expiring block of the Trump funding freeze on grants and loans, leaving industry ...

Democrats initially said Trump's planned tariffs on Mexico and Canada would jack up the price of guacamole and beer for "Trump's Super Bowl tax." ...

McConnell, the former GOP leader ... or the judgment required by the job,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in Friday floor remarks. “If there is one word that should never ...

While Democrats don’t have the Senate votes to tank Trump nominees, they can derail the chamber’s day-to-day functions.