You are neglecting your duty under the Constitution of the United States. President Trump is not spending money that the Congress has authorized and is spending and transferring money that Congress ...

The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse and oversight over military actions, but recent actions by the White ...

Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump’s tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn’t it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The ...

What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to establish and to limit the federal government? What if Congress’s 16 ...

Some lawmakers worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive president.

But by keeping the House on indefinite hiatus — as well as sidelining its oversight authority and more or less ceding its ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Politico's Jonathan Martin about Congress ceding the "power of the purse" over to President Trump. Next, we follow up on the larger meaning of a vote in Congress.

"The President has no independent constitutional authority to impose tariffs. Indeed, when the Framers enumerated Congress's ...