An expected legal move just became official: the Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Friday that it’s abandoning ...

The confirmation of Russell T. Vought to lead the powerful White House budget office is likely to escalate the funding fights ...

Among other existential battles, Democrats are fighting the appearance of having cried wolf when it comes to portraying Donald Trump as a "threat to democracy." Many of their constituents, especially ...

We’re covering an imbalance of power in the government. In the United States, Congress, the president and the courts are ...

U.S. Congress can't just sit by while President Trump does whatever he wants. But lawmakers seem to have no intention of actually working.

The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official who has planned the ...

Trump said the hit, less than two weeks into his term, had targeted a senior IS attack planner and other militants in Somalia ...

Federal government payments for subscriptions to media outlets have become the latest target of President Donald Trump's spending hawks.

Democrats protested Vought’s nomination overnight Wednesday on the Senate floor, with several referring to him as Trump’s ...

The first two weeks of the Trump administration have brought dramatic proposals and unprecedented changes to the government. Our new series, On Democracy, is taking a step back to look at big ...

President Donald Trump has faced several setbacks from federal courts, which have blocked or paused some of his most ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979, but its origins date back much farther. Take us back to post-Civil War, when ...