President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized, despite a federal law forbidding it.

A Senate committee questioned Vought this week on his previous tenure as director of the Office of Management and Budget, which included withholding military aid to Ukraine, an issue that led to Trump's first impeachment. The Government Accountability ...

The directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process.

President Donald Trump's new tool for reshaping the federal government is a relatively obscure agency, the Office of Personnel Management.

President Donald Trump is picking from his most loyal supporters as he creates his Cabinet and appoints others to key roles within his administration.

The nominee’s combative disdain for Congress’s power of the purse makes him unqualified.

Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire that he believes the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” Asked by Sen.

But the spending freeze – along with other key moves early in this presidency, including the firing of Justice Department prosecutors and a bid to repeal birthright citizenship – also reflects Trump’s view that the presidency has almost unlimited power and he can simply decide what is legal and what isn’t.

The framers stated clearly that Congress, not the president, should hold the power of the purse. Trump has tried this power grab before and was impeached over it.

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the military's top weapons buyer is an official who directed the Pentagon to withhold aid from Ukraine in 2019 as Trump sought a commitment from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate the Biden family — a key component of the impeachment of Trump in his first term.