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The Trump administration has operated outside the appropriations process and congressional oversight through its law firm settlements.

The Impoundment Control Act makes clear that the president does not have the authority to unilaterally impound billions in federal funds.

Reviews of programs in new administrations don't require such damaging, destructive, and likely unconstitutional freezes.

It is easy, especially for litigation-minded lawyers, to focus the most attention on investigation enforcement mechanisms like contempt, but in Congress the vast majority of enforcement…

"An overarching concern of the senators was the organizational capacity of the State Department to respond nimbly to [global] challenges."

The US won’t be able to join its allies in helping fund the ICC if Congress or Executive Branch earmarks the funds only for Ukraine investigation. 

The Biden administration should draw on lessons from previous successes in Central America, and Congress must provide sufficient funding.

The Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act provides an unprecedented $250 million over five years for economic and people-to-people projects.

The pervasive damage to the global system of commerce, profit, and labor wrought by the coronavirus has proven that we are, indeed, an interdependent world.

The leverage afforded by the appropriations cycle presents the best and perhaps only opportunity for Congress to confront a department run amok.

Editor’s Note: This article was updated after the President’s announcement to add a fifth analysis. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday,…