federal spending

There's no escaping the fact that the omnibus spending bill Congress approved in March upset wide swaths of the GOP base.

Just how bad is the omnibus budget bill the president signed into law last week? Putting aside the travesty that no one (save for perhaps Sen.

Congressional leaders reached a deal on a $1.3 trillion spending package. The 2,232 page monster is what's called a "christmas tree" bill -- everyone gets to hang an ornament on it.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney took to the airwaves over the weekend to pour oil on the troubled congressional budget deal waters.

It looks like the federal government has avoided another shutdown, owing to an agreement that hikes spending over the next two years by roughly $300 billion. 

What if there was a tool -- a long unused law, perhaps -- that gave Congress the ability to stop federal agencies from spending money that isn't in their budgets?