Clash of the titans. Source: Google Gemini. On May 28, Elon Musk, de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency ...
Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was ...
The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself ...
If you listen to how Republicans in Washington talk about federal spending these days, you might imagine that we have ...
Caucuses, caucuses everywhere. Source: Rep. Ritchie Torres, X.com. House Republicans are battling over what should be included Donald Trump’s “one, big, ...
Everyone who follows American politics is going to spend a lot of time thinking about presidential and judicial power over ...
House Republicans recently sank numerous Democratic efforts to investigate President Donald Trump’s administration, but anyone who is not a close watcher of Congress would ...
The Constitution designates Congress as the lawmaking institution in our federal government. Yet, an enormous amount of lawmaking gets done ...
“Liberation Week” was quite the wild ride. On Thursday, April 2, President Donald Trump announced, in an executive order, that ...
The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon ...
Near the outset of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice ...
Late in March, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives turned their energies to appliances. They passed two resolutions to strike down energy ...
Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of ...
President-elect Donald Trump and senior advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chairs of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, ...
Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) recently took to X.com to celebrate the Immigration and Customs Officials arrests of more than ...
Annual deficits make for growing deficits. Source: Wikipedia. There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let ...
The cloistered Rules Committee in late December of 2024. Source: House Committee on the Rules. As it scrambled to pass a ...
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs met recently to discuss the topic of regulation and to pick a bone with ...
By Philip Wallach and Jaehun Lee When he was first elected president in November 2016, Donald Trump chose a diverse array ...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been much in the news since its creation was announced in mid-November by ...
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