President Trump's flurry of executive actions and orders spark a critical question: Does he have the power he claims to have?

Tensions between state and federal power are hardly new to American history. But the president’s eagerness to bulldoze state and local power is a disturbing escalation of his autocratic approach ...

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.

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and Matthew Continetti from the American Enterprise Institute join Geoff ...

A month into Donald Trump’s first term, the president’s then-political sage Steve Bannon coined a doctrine to explain the ...

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five Illinois voters have filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to ...

Political economists have a name for that: state capture. State capture occurs when wealthy private interests influence a ...

Tensions between state and federal power are hardly new to American history. But the president’s eagerness to bulldoze state and local power is a disturbing escalation of his autocratic approach to ...

After President Donald Trump posted on social media earlier this week that the United States Military came into California and under emergency powers ... However, the federal government has ...

Less than a fortnight in office, President Donald Trump has quickly targeted federal employees ... is President of the United States, which means he has real power, and his worst impulses are ...

The Department of Education oversees billions in federal funding ... by "radical zealots and Marxists" and its power should be transferred to the states. Now there are reports that he is drafting ...

On Friday, a federal judge in Rhode Island granted a temporary restraining order to 22 states and Washington ... not the president, has the power of the purse, you’re right.