The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse and oversight over military actions, but recent actions by the White ...

Editor’s note: This editorial originally ran in fellow CNHI paper the Joplin, Missouri, Globe. Congress has been dropping the ball for years. It needs to reclaim its authority among the three branches ...

Two interrelated fears that have caused mounting public alarm with respect to the Trump Administration involve unchecked executive power and the erosion of the rule of law. These worries have ...

The Trump White House is planning to send a second rescissions request to Capitol Hill in the coming weeks, hoping to extract a legislative stamp of approval for its efforts to impound funding that ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has done nothing to challenge Donald Trump as the president tests the thresholds of his executive authority. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Whatever ...

They argue that if lawmakers fail to vote in favor of a veto-proof joint resolution overturning the emergency, Trump’s ...

The Supreme Court last week sharply curtailed the ability of federal judges to block a presidential action nationwide, even if they find it unconstitutional. That followed its decision last year ...

When the Trump administration decides it can spend money from any budget account on anything it wants and not spend ...

For the second time, Donald Trump’s worldwide 10 percent tariff and retaliatory “liberation day” tariffs have been found illegal by the courts. Trump has lost a lot of lower-court cases in the past ...

Congress today temporarily extended the NSA’s spying powers that time and again have been used to violate our rights. Disturbingly, this three-month extension was snuck into a broader funding bill, ...

They say Congress has given in to the "unchecked power" of the executive. A tri-partisan group of senators on Tuesday introduced legislation designed to claw back national security powers, delineated ...

Whatever you think about American politics and government, whether you are on the right, the left or somewhere in the middle, you should be mad at Congress. I don’t just mean the Republican-controlled ...