Nearly $7 million over the past week has gone to cover the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s expenses.

The Constitution gives Congress what’s called “the power of the purse,” or the ability to spend taxpayer money — not the ...

Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of creating a sovereign wealth fund, a move he said may be used ...

Musk’s SpaceX has won billions in government contracts with the federal government, which critics have said is a potential ...

Professor Deborah Pearlstein joins Morning Joe to discuss her column for the NYT outlining some of Trump’s actions ...

Trump vowed to cut prices but he has yet to sign a major executive action to try to do so, even warning of "pain" from ...

A sweeping White House order to freeze federal grants and allocations reflects a theory of presidential power that Donald ...

What I think Trump learned is what a lot of these autocrats learned. Viktor Orbán was in power once and lost power because he ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

Trade tiffs, bureaucracy battles and Musk’s mandate: Trump’s third week kicks off: From the Politics Desk ...

DC federal judge on Feb. 3  extended her expiring block of the Trump funding freeze on grants and loans, leaving industry ...

The Trump administration is also trying to freeze or claw back about $3 billion in grants created in the name of ...