The supposedly “nonpartisan” Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides Congress with cost estimates for its policy proposals, may not be

How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back.Reeling from years of executive overreach and fiscal chaos, Congress passed a sweeping law intended to bring order and discipline to government spending.

The CBO also estimates an increase of 10.9 million people without health insurance under the bill, including 1.4 million who are in the country without legal status in state-funded programs.

The legislation would make it harder for judges to hold defiant parties, including government officials, in contempt.

GOP House leaders push a major rescissions package to claw back approved spending as Elon Musk and conservatives demand deeper budget cuts.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an emailed statement that the Trump administration was already “illegally impounding additional funds,” as withholding money has “always been illegal without explicit Congressional approval.”

As the budget process on Capitol Hill moves forward, with its heated debates over steep cuts to Medicaid, raising the debt ceiling, and countless other decisions, you could be mistaken for thinking that Congress is at the center of the action in Washington these days.