The FY 2027 budget process is underway, with the president submitting his proposal April 3 and committees beginning hearings the week of April 13. Senate leadership is expected to move a budget ...

President Trump last week suggested that a second reconciliation bill is not needed this year, but because the national debt is at $38 trillion and growing, policymakers need to act with a sense of ...

The White House decision to seek about one-quarter of its gargantuan $1.5 trillion defense-spending request as reconciliation funding leaves some of the military’s top priorities—munitions, industrial ...

Mega-sized federal spending bills are so complex that they present numerous opportunities for making “sleight of legislation” pork barrel changes to existing programs and introducing new programs that ...

The decision to advance a narrowly focused budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement operations later this month has sparked a battle among Senate Republicans over whether to pass a ...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says a party-line budget bill could enact major conservative legislative goals, from funding the Department of Homeland Security to requiring photo identification in ...