A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.
Trump was considered reckless for wanting to start a war at the end of his term. Now, Biden is doing the same.
Despite its enormous budget and vast regulatory powers, the agency has failed to detect major frauds while wasting time and money on relatively useless disclosures.
Plus: Republican policy priorities, SCOTUS to take same-sex wedding website refusal case, and more...
Does the Trump administration think it can wage war in Iran without congressional approval? Mike Pompeo won't say.
The frenzied battle to reform American air traffic control
Wary libertarian enthusiasm greets Donald Trump's ambitious regulatory reform agenda
Giving presidents the tools they need to wield the power they've already taken.
Would add just 1/100th of a degree to man-made warming by 2100
Fifty-one percent say their own representatives suck.
Democrats appear to be in no position to buck the midterm thumping the party in power power usually suffers at the polls.
What's wrong with Congress? Absolutely nothing, that's what.
I don't see why we have to like either of them
Also the best-known, which may be a contributing factor
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) won re-election to Congress while cooling his jets in rehab.
And it doesn't seem he's losing any sleep over what his successors may do with those new powers.
Obama isn't the first president to ram through a nominee that the Senate refused to confirm, but he is the first to do it when the Senate is actually in session.
