It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda.
The Trump administration has frozen the agency’s work and abandoned most of its lawsuits against banks and lenders.
Jonathan McKernan is expected to be tapped for a Treasury Department post instead after waiting for months for the full Senate to take up his consumer bureau nomination.
In the latest chapter in a battle over spending powers, lawmakers charged that the administration removed crucial information in violation of the law. The White House argues the data shouldn’t be public.
What Elon Musk’s retreat from Washington means for his government-slashing project.
Many of the suggested cuts, which would require congressional approval, target federal programs that benefit the poor.
In a 2-to-1 ruling, a panel of appellate judges restored a district court’s injunction preventing the Trump administration from laying off 90 percent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s staff.
The investigations by the Government Accountability Office come as the White House looks to expand its power over the federal budget.
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.