President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition ...

The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 ( Evidence Act) was designed to help overcome this. Its ...

An editorial about free speech by AP Executive Editor Julie Pace was published today in The Wall Street Journal.  In it, Pace ...

No matter which side of the political fence you’re on, we all can agree on one thing: There’s going to be a lot of changes to ...

United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education in a bid to ...

DOGE is one of the most ambitious efforts to reform the federal government in decades ... Republicans, who retained control of the House and retook the Senate in the 2024 elections, are ...

But other Democrats said funding the government when the president was moving unilaterally to cut programs and employees would endorse his actions and cede even more congressional control.

Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) warned that a government shutdown would give the president greater control over federal operations. "If you shut down the government, the president is the person ...

The unprecedented factor in this shutdown threat is how it could be leveraged by Tesla TSLA CEO Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” to cement control over ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been at the centre of political turmoil since the Trump administration announced it wanted to shut it down. The move all but ends a six ...

like air traffic control and law enforcement, continue during a shutdown, but workers go without pay until funding is passed. Shutdowns can also disrupt processing of government benefits ...

Johnson also read quotes from Democrats speaking ... "This is their bill. If there's a government shutdown, they're in control [of] the House, the Senate and the White House — it's their shutdown." ...