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.
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.
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
Most governors face legislatures that can, on paper, overrule them — the thresholds, timing rules and veto-session mechanics decide whether that power is real.
Alexandria Lucas · March 8, 2026
Notice-and-comment rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act is the pipeline through which every major federal regulation passes — with published dockets, deadlines and judicial checkpoints the public can read in real time.
Alexandria Lucas · February 14, 2026