Can Trump Use Impoundment To Freeze Spending Approved By Congress?
President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...
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A Lawless Leader and His Revolution
Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is ...
Can Trump Cancel Government Funds Through Impoundment? What To Know As He Pauses Federal Assistance.
President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...
Lawrence: Trump could not finish his first week as president ‘without violating the law’
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...
The legal battle over Trump's federal funding freeze is just beginning
The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is ...
Richard Nixon’s third term on trade starts today
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From Nixon to January 6: The history of presidential pardons
One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
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Nixon paved the way for Trump’s "new standard" of inaugural fundraising
This, experts say, allows Trump to embrace corporate and individual gifts in a more brazen way that mirrors another president he has been compared to — Richard Nixon. While nearly half a century ...
Legal battle over Trump's federal funding freeze just beginning: What's at stake?
The announcement of the freeze set off panic and confusion across the country. The result could be a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power, with the ...