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

President Donald Trump’s directives to shrink the federal workforce by next week seeks to make good on his campaign pledge to ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

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

After major backlash, Trump’s radical plan to freeze government spending is on hold. Now, it’s all very confusing and ...

California legislators on Thursday delayed a vote on a pair of bills that would provide up to $50 million combined for the ...

The order that froze trillions of dollars of federal grants and loans was published without vetting by key officials in the ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's new tool for reshaping the federal government is a relatively obscure agency, the ...

The Trump administration’s biggest swing at radically reshaping federal spending lasted just under 45 hours. A sweeping ...

The Beltway swamp hates it, but the president is bound and determined to shrink the federal budget and its huge deficit.

The Trump administration is poised to oust Biden-era appointee Rohit Chopra as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and is considering either the Treasury Department or the White House ...

The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget released a new memo Wednesday rescinding a controversial memo ...