The president has already challenged statutory protections against summarily firing officials overseeing such agencies ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order bringing independent agencies under the control of the White House — an action that would greatly expand his power but is likely to ...

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order declaring that only the attorney general or the president, instead of ...

President Trump’s second term has seen a significant shift towards executive overreach, with policies such as a federal ...

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Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy, Jackson School of Public Affairs, Yale University If you think a lot is happening in the federal government all at once on a lot of different issues ...

The combination of judicial trends and concerted executive branch action is expected to drive significant changes in the federal bureaucracy and affect financial services regulation We have ...

Barely a week into his second term, Trump has issued several executive actions that are reshaping DEI programs across the federal government and corporate America. Since his inauguration on ...

The first executive order is a hiring freeze on executive branch employees until the Office of Management and Budget develops a plan to reduce the size of the federal workforce. This is sound ...

Since 1974, a federal law known as the Impoundment Control Act has prohibited the executive branch from spending less than the amount of money that Congress appropriates for a given program or ...

Maura Healey on Monday issued a written policy that explicitly bans the use of NDAs across executive branch offices. Healey’s office mentioned the audit report Monday as it publicized a three-page ...

On Friday night, President Trump removed at least 17 inspectors general, the executive branch watchdogs who conduct audits and investigations of executive branch actions. The removals are probably ...