The DOGE ethos comes to state governments
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, almost all governors have already ...
Opinion
The House’s Republican bias is gone. But the gerrymander lives.
How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...
Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch
There's a mid-March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional ...
Echoes of Ronald Reagan or something more? A look at Donald Trump’s overhaul of Washington
▪ Elon Musk. “Trump’s approach is to use a nameless, faceless bureaucracy of 20-somethings and Elon Musk to dismantle a ...
Trump pauses US military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Zelensky to move toward quick end to war
The order will remain in effect until Trump determines that Ukraine has demonstrated a commitment to peace negotiations with ...
Senate confirms McMahon to lead Education Department as Trump pushes to shut it down
The Senate has voted to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places ...
Senate bid to prevent boys from playing girls' sports gets stuck on filibuster
The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls ...
Mayor Johnson travels to Washington for final preparations before sanctuary city hearing
Mayor Brandon Johnson is in Washington, D.C. Monday, preparing for his showdown with a congressional committee over Chicago's sanctuary city law.
Negotiations to avert a shutdown sputter as disputes over DOGE cuts persist
Trump and congressional leaders have lost hope in a full government funding deal and pivoted toward a stopgap bill for the ...
Trump’s speech to Congress comes as he wields vast power almost daring lawmakers, courts to stop him
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump arrives this week on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech to Congress, a coequal branch ...
From opposing robber barons to the New Deal to desegregation to DOGE, state attorneys general have long taken on Washington
In early February, the attorneys general of Minnesota, Oregon and Washington sought and were granted an order to stop the ...
Trump to stand before Congress and offer divided nation an accounting of his turbulent first weeks
It will be the latest milestone in Trump’s total takeover of the nation’s capital where the Republican-led House and Senate ...