Melanie is a Visiting Fellow in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation. The Biden Administration has waged a campaign of massive resistance to the ...

Senators are not thrilled with a top White House official's comments that the government funding process should become more partisan, and fear that doing so could erode Congress’ power of the purse.

Washington — Last month, lawmakers in Congress finally resolved a funding fight that had stretched on for months, approving two separate bills to keep the government open and avoid a shutdown that ...

The key challenge the federal budget faces today is the out-of-control growth of auto-pilot mandatory programs, which are leading to excessive and economically harmful debt levels. As the U.S. federal ...

The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse in Article I, Section 9, which provides that “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” To ...

George Caldwell is a correspondent for The Daily Signal. Send an email to George. In the coming weeks, Congress could decide whether government funding is set by traditional bipartisan spending bills, ...

Is it too kind to give any cheers at all to Congress’ appropriators during the second government shutdown of this fiscal year? Should we need to congratulate our legislators for the simple achievement ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) praised the House Appropriations Committee for following the Science Committee’s lead in pushing for a doubling of the ...

During the coming summer months, Congress will focus its attention on the appropriations process—an annual exercise that, ideally, ends with a determination of funding for the federal government for ...