Proposed government legislation would result in 100 more people being jailed each year, according to estimates ...

Trump’s early, extraordinary steps pose a direct challenge to a fundamental underpinning of the Constitution: the power of the purse.

In order for the United States to remain “a government of laws, not of men,” all officials entrusted with elected authority ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on Jan.

Those who continue distributing appropriated funds despite the freeze order are standing on firm legal ground.

President Donald Trump’s initial order, issued Tuesday, was part of his push to implement a comprehensive review of how Washington spends billions in such taxpayer funding each year. The freeze was ...

Trump is likely to succeed in expanding presidential powers on some fronts because the Constitution generally puts vast power ...

Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand ...

The White House is considering challenging the constitutionality of a 50-year-old law limiting the president’s control over federal spending, easing the firing of civil servants, curbing pay and ...

But Trump’s aims are not confined to achieving specific policy outcomes. This time, the primary goal is not to build a border ...

President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to block the government from disbursing funds authorized by Congress for a ...