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President Trump's expansive interpretation of executive power is continuing to reshape federal spending in a government shutdown.

Since assuming office in January, Mr. Trump and his top aides, seasoned from their first stint in the White House, have ...

The Trump White House is planning to send a second rescissions request to Capitol Hill in the coming weeks, hoping to extract a legislative stamp of approval for its efforts to impound funding that ...

Two interrelated fears that have caused mounting public alarm with respect to the Trump Administration involve unchecked executive power and the erosion of the rule of law. These worries have ...

The U.S. is not currently at war with Iran, though that could apparently change at any moment. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump bombed Iranian nuclear enrichment sites in an attempt to ...

For the second time, Donald Trump’s worldwide 10 percent tariff and retaliatory “liberation day” tariffs have been found illegal by the courts. Trump has lost a lot of lower-court cases in the past ...

When the Trump administration decides it can spend money from any budget account on anything it wants and not spend ...

They argue that if lawmakers fail to vote in favor of a veto-proof joint resolution overturning the emergency, Trump’s ...

The Supreme Court last week sharply curtailed the ability of federal judges to block a presidential action nationwide, even if they find it unconstitutional. That followed its decision last year ...

They say Congress has given in to the "unchecked power" of the executive. A tri-partisan group of senators on Tuesday introduced legislation designed to claw back national security powers, delineated ...