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President Donald Trump, beginning his voyage last month into his second four-year term in the White House, has assembled ...

President Donald Trump drew a great deal of criticism from Democrats as well as from Never Trump conservatives when he fired ...

It’s only going to get crazier. Ride with us, and we’ll help you keep your sanity intact.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson (R-NC) is keeping one eye on the 2026 midterm elections, hoping they will draw in candidates with a “little something ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

Sycophancy runs as wild in Washington DC as the wildfires in Los Angeles and the time-honored practice is being pursued with ...

Trump’s Republican administration had framed the proposed halt as a brief delay rather than an impoundment. Challengers said even a short pause could be deeply harmful and unconstitutional. Nixon had ...

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

Supporters of climate, infrastructure, mortgage, tech, health, veterans' and other projects expressed alarm as tens of thousands of programs appeared possibly at risk.

President Donald Trump’s dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the Constitution that will test the court’s recently muscular commitment to curb ...

Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is just depressing.