The federal government spent $7 trillion last year. That works out to roughly $222,000 per second — a pace that would have made even the most reckless Gilded Age railroad baron blush. And yet, in ...

The current government shutdown is the just latest reminder of what Americans already know: the federal government is dysfunctional. Nowhere is this more evident than in Congress, where a broken ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations budget hearing on Capitol Hill on May 15. (Yuri Gripas/AP) Congress will head into its Memorial Day recess ...

As OPM ramps up modernization efforts with a much smaller workforce, the agency's 2027 budget justification reveals where it may be heading the next few years.

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin earlier this year. Johnson has introduced legislation that would prevent government shutdowns through an automatic ...

If many of us operated our household budgets like the federal government, we would be considered reckless and irresponsible. And yet, here we are again, facing another showdown over a shutdown. The ...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order that introduces a new framework for how federal grants are reviewed, awarded and rescinded. Titled “Improving Oversight of Federal ...

Sometimes it can seem that AI is all that anyone wants to talk about when it comes to government technology. But that's not the only big trend of the moment. Federal funding stands as another hot — ...

The Trump administration has capped off an agonizing and tumultuous period of funding instability for K-12 schools with a budget proposing to eliminate dozens of longstanding funding streams and slash ...

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