Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms ...

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (CBICA) is one such safeguard, ensuring funds allocated by Congress reach their intended recipients. For decades, it has prevented ...

Already on a budgeting path to trim $2 trillion in government spending over the next decade, congressional Republicans are openly discussing employing two unconventional weapons to enact further cuts: ...

The Trump administration is likely to test the legality of the president withholding spending of federal funds allocated by ...

as required under the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. "All told, the Senate Democrats received a total of $46 million in compensation since they last passed a budget ...

In a welcome sign of initiative and agency from the legislative branch, some Senate Republicans want spending cuts from the ...

As a result, Congress passed the 1974 Impoundment Control Act to establish these proper ... the president is not a king," Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., ...

President Trump has made it clear that he is dead serious about cutting the federal budget ... impoundment is sharply restricted, thanks to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

In 1974, Congress passed and Nixon signed the Impoundment Control Act, which restricted the ... power to veto specific funding provisions in budget bills after he signed bills into law.

The foundational principle of “no taxation without representation” lodges the authority in the United States Congress ... budget are unconstitutional. Full stop. The Impoundment Control Act ...