Just two months after Congress maintained steady year-over-year federal funding for most education programs, the second Trump administration is asking lawmakers to once again consider major cuts that ...

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 — ...

Interest payments just hit $628 billion. Decades of failed congressional fixes prove that only a constitutional amendment can break Washington's addiction.

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 ...

Congressional passage of the massive budget reconciliation measure, H.R. 1, in July set in motion a new federal-state fiscal dynamic—and states are moving fast to adapt. The law reshapes three policy ...

The U.S. federal budget serves as the central financial blueprint for government priorities, directing capital toward healthcare, retirement programs, and national defense. It functions by reconciling ...

Federal managers are under intense pressure to prove accountability. That is reasonable. But in practice, too many government systems now treat process compliance as a substitute for actual public ...