Donald Trump will be America’s 47th president following a resounding win in the 2024 election. The election also gave control of the Senate to Republicans, along with potentially the House of ...

Using the reconciliation process to dig the hole deeper has become an engineering feat with bipartisan concurrence.

This is the process that Republicans are currently employing to try to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda. This process does not deal with funding the government and has nothing to do with ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But in Washington, D.C., reconciliation refers to a potent legislative shortcut that ...

If you follow what’s going on in Washington, you know that the Trump administration is primed to pursue big changes in federal taxes and spending through a process called “budget reconciliation” (most ...

There’s understandable confusion over Capitol Hill lingo discussing the budget process and appropriations and spending process — which are two distinct things. What’s the difference? So glad you asked ...