Forty-three of the nation's governors have the power to exercise a line-item veto and every president, Republican and Democrat, since Richard Nixon has sought the same power. The line-item veto lets a ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy ramped up his threats to school districts Thursday by declaring he will make a historic line-item veto of some per-student funding in next year’s budget unless his education policy ...

President Trump is appointing two businessmen, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. Its goal is to cut wasteful spending. Rather than adding a ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — This month’s anticipated showdown over proposed budget cuts in San Diego could prompt Mayor Todd Gloria to invoke a powerful but rarely used tool known as the line-item veto. The ...

Hoosier governors should have the authority to reduce or eliminate line items in the state budget, a fiscal power governors in 43 other states have. Gov. Joe Kernan in his State of the State address ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House is trying Wednesday to give President Barack Obama the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that has been sought by both ...

In spite of President Bush's almost unprecedented reluctance to use the veto -- March 23, Bush will have served longer without issuing a veto than any president since Jefferson, who vetoed nothing in ...

WASHINGTON - Describing his proposal as a "scalpel" for the president, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan testified before a House subcommittee Wednesday in support of line-item veto legislation he introduced last ...

At the Minnesota Senate candidate debate on Tuesday night (Oct. 10), Independence Party candidate Robert Fitzgerald brought up the explosive growth in "earmarks" on spending bills: members of Congress ...

Iowa public safety leaders call for line-item veto of 911 systems charge proposal GOP Calls for Investigation into Federal Card Charges Mara Corday Dies: ‘Tarantula' Cult Film Star & ‘Playboy' ...