Trump’s presidency may have amplified executive power, but unless lawmakers roll back those powers—and the bloated government behind them—the next administration will do the same.
The billionaire Salesforce CEO said Trump should use the National Guard to clean up San Francisco's streets.
Some blue states are trying to set up their own versions of the NLRB, and Hawley is inadvertently (or deliberately) helping the cause.
Senate Judiciary Committee head reveals legislators’ communications were monitored.
Two bills recently introduced by Hawley would set American AI and the economy back.
Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad Republicans into eliminating an important check on executive excess.
The legal rationales for prosecuting James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James suggest the president is determined to punish them one way or another.
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By demanding that the Justice Department punish the former FBI director for wronging him, the president provided evidence to support a claim of selective or vindictive prosecution.
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Tens of thousands of people die each year in crashes where human error was the cause or a contributing factor.
If Sen. Josh Hawley and the Trump administration want to spare Americans the pain from tariffs, there is a far simpler solution.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to the national debt, but any wasteful government spending should be eliminated.
The alleged incident goes to the heart of the objections raised by critics who worry about Bove's respect for the rule of law.
The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
In a bill packed with spending, one provision offers real gains for health care choice and savings.
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
CAFE standards try to accomplish a reasonable goal but in an ineffective way.
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
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Now nearly 100 state AI laws will remain in force—and nearly 1,000 more are already waiting in the wings.
Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
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Publicly funded homes in some cities are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per unit, but Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase funding for these inefficient projects.
The Senate parliamentarian says the 10-year AI moratorium may be passed by a simple majority through the Senate's budget reconciliation process.
The provision requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
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After accounting for the dynamic effects of the Trump-backed tax bill, the CBO concludes it will add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.
It’s not the only way the Republican senator is closer to democratic socialism than to traditional conservatism.
It requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
Sen. Blackburn introduced a bill this week that would make it a crime to publish the name of a federal law enforcement officer.
The disgraced former Democratic senator was convicted of accepting almost $1 million in bribes in exchange for, among other things, favors benefiting foreign governments.
For both practical and constitutional reasons, this is the obvious way out of the chaos Trump's tariffs have created.
Musk's opinion about the bill matters, since he is one of the few people in conservative politics who can get away with defying Trump.
A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."
Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to end the non-existent economic emergency failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday night.
A small but growing bipartisan movement in the Senate is pushing back against the president's imposition of tariffs, but there's plenty of room to go further.
The bill faces an uncertain future, but it is a faint glimmer of hope for those hoping to limit executive power over trade.
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Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday, Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.
"The only way you get less waste is to give them less money to spend," says the libertarian-adjacent senator from Kentucky.
A bill that purports to lower borrowing costs will instead drive many people to more expensive lenders.
Riley's murder was an atrocity. But the law bearing her name is a grab bag of authoritarian policies that have little to do with her death.
With just hours to go before it is set to shut down, many senators and representatives are still posting on the app they claim is too dangerous for the rest of us to use.
