1 day ago · President Donald Trump has declared an all-out war on congressional power. And his allies on Capitol Hill aren’t doing much to fend off the invasion. From firing a slate of inspectors …

1 day ago · Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand his power in the first days of his presidency. ...

1 day ago · Congress essentially banned presidents from unilaterally and permanently impounding funds in a 1974 law. But during the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump, in a video …

It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 2017, to January 3, 2019, during the final weeks of Barack Obama's presidency and the first two years of Donald Trump's first presidency. The …

1 day ago · In one sentence, Trump appears to have cut off hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that Congress has already approved, torching Joe Biden’s two most significant …

3 days ago · Mr. Trump recently invited more than a dozen House Republicans to visit him at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate, to discuss raising the $10,000 limit on the state and local tax …

2 days ago · He boasted to the Congress members about the many executive orders he issued upon taking office and defended his move to ... Trump held a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday …

Jan 22, 2025 · How can Trump adjourn Congress? The second clause of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution gives the president the power to convene the House and Senate in certain …

Nov 13, 2024 · In Washington political parlance, it's called "a governing trifecta", when the president's party also controls both chambers of Congress - the House of Representatives and …

Jan 9, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump likes the idea of “one, big beautiful bill” for his top legislative priorities, but he emerged from a lengthy closed-door …