Assessment of governing programs against the machinery available to enact them. Pieces separate measures achievable by executive action from those requiring legislation, price them against fiscal rules, and identify the veto points ahead. Read by legislative staff, lobbyists, journalists and researchers tracking implementation.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services can approve anything that «promotes the objectives» of Medicaid — a phrase that lets each administration's policy preferences reach the states, five years at a time.
Alexandria Lucas · June 30, 2026
The documents differ in formality and publication, not in legal force — all three bind only the executive branch, and none can amend a statute.
Alexandria Lucas · June 7, 2026
Since 2021 House members request funded projects in public letters, capped at 1 percent of discretionary spending, with conflict-of-interest certifications and ban on for-profit recipients.
Asha Venkataswamy · May 16, 2026
When appropriations lapse, the Anti-Deficiency Act sorts every federal employee into excepted, exempt or furloughed — and the definitions, not the headlines, decide which services stop.
Alexandria Lucas · April 23, 2026
The CRA gives Congress a filibuster-proof, presidential-signature path to erase recently finalized regulations — and a bar on the agency issuing anything substantially similar ever again.
Asha Venkataswamy · March 31, 2026