The ability of our elected representatives to make optimally informed decisions about programs and budgets is constrained by ...

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

With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal ...

Boardman ruled that Trump’s repeal of birthright citizenship “conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, ...

The Chamber of Trade for Porth and District has written to the UK Government, Welsh Government, local MS, local MP and the council calling for intervention to prevent further decline ...

Public-policy expert Don Kettl discusses Trump and Musk’s blitzkrieg attack on the federal workforce and where it goes next.

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Trump is different. His defiance lies in plain view. There is no dignity. There is no restraint. There is only power. The ...

The constitutional stress test intensifies. Can the president create an investment fund for federal dollars without ...

The email system used by Elon Musk and his team to contact federal employees operates "entirely on government computers" , OPM officials said.

Trump has long distanced himself from the controversial policy blueprint Project 2025, but is still taking steps that reflect ...