by jpitney | Sep 30, 2025 | Appropriations, Budget, Congress
The Congressional Appropriations Process: Background and Potential Innovations By James C. Capretta, AEI Abstract: The courts should, and probably will, constrain the Trump administration’s aggressive push in 2025 to diminish Congress’s constitutional role in...
by jpitney | Sep 24, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
At Politico, Ben Jacobs explains how censure has evolved from a mark of shame to a fundraising opportunity: Since 2021, there has been an average of more than one official censure a year — a far leap from the past, when censures used to be a once-in-a-decade kind of...
by jpitney | Sep 21, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Violence
MATT BROWN and STEPHEN GROVES at AP: The government funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House on Friday would add about $88 million in security money for lawmakers and members of the Supreme Court and executive branch. A temporary program that...
by jpitney | Sep 19, 2025 | Budget, Congress, Presidency
Don Wolfensberger The issue of pocket rescissions may seem peripheral or even irrelevant, given the big picture backdrop of a government teetering on the brink this month. But it actually has major significance, since it raises new questions and possibilities over who...
by jpitney | Sep 16, 2025 | Civility, Congress, Debate
Yuval Levin at AEI: Most days, the outrage motivating progressives on Bluesky is about something conservatives on X haven’t even heard about, and vice versa. Politically active people are at war with caricatures of their opponents, but they are not forced to actually...
by jpitney | Sep 15, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress
Gabby Giffords and Jeff Flake at USAT: Kirk’s supporters are angry – we all are – but in this perilous moment, elected officials wield outsized influence on whether the justified anger at the assassin transforms into malice toward fellow Americans. At a moment when...
