Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand ...

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

Multiple groups called on the Senate to reject President Trump’s pick for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, ...

President Donald Trump issued a memo ordering a freezing of federal funds. After lawsuits and a federal judge issuing an ...

Donald Trump’s embrace of the unitary executive theory inches closer to the “very definition of tyranny” that James Madison ...

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for filling federal government jobs. Donald Trump and Republican loyalists appear to ...

His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that ...

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday advanced Russell Vought’s nomination as Office of Management and Budget director, ...

If the appeals court agrees, it would be the formal end of the case in which Donald J. Trump was accused of illegally holding onto classified materials after he left office. Economists predict ...

Julian E. Barnes Reporting on Gabbard Hearing Senators of both parties are pressing Gabbard for clear answers on past statements, including her criticism of Trump’s decision to conduct a drone ...